NJPN Annual Addiction Conference 2022

Carlo C. DiClemente, Ph.D. ABPP Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Director of the MDQuit tobacco resource center, the Center for Community Collaboration Dr. DiClemente is co-developer of the Transtheoretical Model of behavior change, and author of numerous scientific publications on motivation and behavior change with a variety of health and addictive behaviors. He has conducted funded research for the past 40 years with funding fromNIH Institutes, SAMSHA, and Foundations. He published his most recent book Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover (second edition) in 2018. He has co-authored several professional books, The Transtheoretical Model, Substance Abuse Treatment and the Stages of Change (second edition), and Group Treatment for Substance Abuse: A Stages of Change Therapy Manual (Second Edition) and a self-help book, Changing for Good. For his work, he has received awards from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, as well as a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association. In 2019 he received the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Jack Mendelson, M.D., Award and the 2019 AlfredWellner Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Register of Health Services Psychologists. Dr. Carlo DiClemente received his Doctorate in Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and currently directs several training centers, the MDQUIT Tobacco Resource Center, the Center for Community Collaboration, and the Home Visiting Training Center at UMBC.

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Sarah Adelman Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Human Services

Dorothy Chaney President, WI Community Health Alliance Dorothy Chaney has more than twenty years of experience in community organizing, adult education, and substance abuse prevention work. She is the Proprietor of Wisconsin Community Health Alliance, an organization committed to supporting coalitions, organizations and individuals to improve the health of their communities and the environments in which they live. Chaney has a wealth of experience in community health improvement planning and community organizing. Chaney is proprietor of the WI Community Health Alliance, currently serves as the secretary of the WI Behavioral Health Alliance and on the Prevention Committee of the WI State Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs (SCAODA). Dorothy served as Chairperson and co-chair of the SCAODA Controlled Substances Work groups that produced the reports “Responding ToWisconsin’s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis: A Call To Action” which was published in 2012, the “Wisconsin’s Heroin Epidemic: Strategies and Solutions” published in August 2014. Dorothy is currently involved with the CADCA National Coalition Academy and has had the opportunity to co-facilitate MCTC cohort 8 in Iowa. In addition to being committed to supporting communities in public health efforts, Chaney is a strong youth advocate and is an elected Board of Education member in MarshfieldWI, where she resides with her two daughters. Chaney has a bachelors degree in political science and a masters degree in adult education. Commissioner Sarah Adelman has led the New Jersey Department of Human Services since January 2021, and was confirmed as Commissioner in March 2022. Under her leadership, the Department has helped residents through the pandemic by making significant investments in child care and food assistance, improving and expanding services for older adults and individuals with disabilities, protecting health coverage for more than 2 million residents, and continuing to enhance mental health and addiction service. Adelman joined the Department in 2018, initially serving as a Deputy Commissioner, overseeing the Division of Developmental Disabilities, Division of Aging Services, and the Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services. She also served on the Board of the NJ Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency. Before joining Governor Murphy’s Administration, Adelman served as Vice President at the NJ Association of Health Plans and Chief of Staff at the NJ Health Care Quality Institute. She also served on the Board of Trustees for Samaritan Healthcare and Hospice and the Board of Directors for a statewide child abuse and neglect prevention program. Adelman received her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Rowan University and a certificate in Advanced Healthcare Leadership from Seton Hall University as a fellow in the inaugural class of the NJ Healthcare Executives Leadership Academy.

Eric Garland, PhD, LCSW Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development, University of Utah

Dr. Eric Garland, PhD, LCSW is Distinguished Endowed Chair in Research, Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research in the University of Utah College of Social Work and Director of the Center on Mindfulness and Integrative Health Intervention Development (C-MIIND). Dr. Garland is the developer of an innovative mindfulness-based therapy founded on insights derived from cognitive neuroscience, called Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE). He has received more than $60 million in research grants to conduct clinical trials of mindfulness for addiction and chronic pain. In recognition of his expertise, Dr. Garland was appointed by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins to the NIH HEAL Multi-Disciplinary Working Group to guide the $1.1 billion HEAL initiative to use science to halt the opioid crisis. In a recent bibliometric analysis of mindfulness research published over the past 55 years, Dr. Garland was found to be the most prolific author of mindfulness research in the world.

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