Annie Lewis-O'Connor, PhD, NP-BC, MPH, FAAN, DF-LAFN, DF-AFN is a dually Board Certified Pediatric and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. She is the founder and director of the C.A.R.E Clinic (Caring Approach to Resilience & Empowerment) and is co-chair of the Mass General Brigham Trauma-informed Care Initiative. The clinic is committed to providing patient centered and trauma-informed health care to people who have experienced individual, interpersonal and collective trauma. Dr. Lewis-O’Connor addresses violence from four pillars: Research, Policy, Education, and Clinical practice. Dr. Lewis-O’Connor is published in peer-reviewed journals and academic books on the topic of violence against women and children, trauma-informed care, and the effects of trauma, violence and abuse on health. Her current research is focused on measuring Trauma-Informed Care models of care in adult health care settings and exploration of best ‘screening’ (inquiry) methods for trauma, violence and abuse. Dr. Lewis-O’Connor was a Clinical Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2018-2021) focusing on health care leadership using a health equity lens.  Her current funding is exploring the return on investment when TIC models are utilized, trauma inquiry and use of trauma-informed care plans. She served as chair of the National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse advancing policy and clinical practice for survivors of violence and abuse. Since 2010 she has served on the Executive Board of Casa Myrna Vasquez, the oldest and longest standing shelter in Mass for women and children. She received her Master’s in Nursing from Simmons College in Boston, a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University and PhD from Boston College.

Kristin Ashford is a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing where she serves as the associate dean of Undergraduate Faculty and Interprofessional Education. She has recently completed her first year in Washington DC as a RWJF health policy fellow at the National Academy of Medicine and the U.S Committee on Energy and Commerce, Health Subcommittee. Dr. Ashford received her BS at Washburn University in Kansas and completed her training as a board-certified women’s health nurse practitioner at the University of Louisville. She further completed her PhD and NIH postdoctoral fellowship, Building Interprofessional Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRWCH), at the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Lisa M. Blair received her PhD in Nursing with an interdisciplinary graduate specialization in Quantitative Research Methods at The Ohio State University. She is a registered nurse with clinical experience working with critically and chronically ill infants. Her postdoctoral training focused on data science and the impact of perinatal substance use on neonatal and child health and development. Her research and career development have been well funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research, National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse through two institutional training grants, two intramural research training awards, and an individual predoctoral fellowship. In her current role as an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University College of Nursing, Dr. Blair employs her data science expertise and health disparities focus to examine child outcomes in health and development after prenatal exposures to tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems, cannabis, and opioids.

Maggie Schroeder is currently the Program Manager for the Adult Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Services Branch at the Division of Behavioral Health, Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities for the State of Kentucky. Ms. Schroeder has Master’s Degrees in Clinical Psychology and Political Science and is a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LCADC). She has over 30 years of experience in providing behavioral health and substance abuse services to individuals and their families including case management and therapeutic interventions services as well as providing clinical and administrative supervision.

Katie Stratton, MS is currently a Program Administrator at the Kentucky Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities in the Adult Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Services Branch for KY Moms Maternal Assistance Towards Recovery, a program for pregnant and postpartum individuals with substance use concerns. She is a 2009 Graduate of Capella University with a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology, a 2001 Graduate of Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Child and Family Studies with a minor in Women’s Studies. She collaborates with several agencies within Kentucky working to assist in creating and establishing a System of Care for women with substance use concerns and their families. Before her involvement with DBHDID, Katie was a child and adolescent therapist licensed as an LPCA in a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility for almost 5 years and an outpatient therapist for 2 years. There she was able to gain insight into the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and how ACE scores effect a person’s development and functionality in various environments. In her spare time, she is a youth archery coach for a Scholastic 3D Archery club in Lawrenceburg, KY.

Dr. Matthew T. Walton, PhD, MSSW is the lead researcher in the Office of Health Data and Analytics within the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The Office of Health Data and Analytics is a team of data analysts, database experts, statisticians, and researchers that serve the Cabinet by studying policy-relevant questions, with the aim of advancing health and wellness in Kentucky. In this role, he supports the health and social science research activities of the Cabinet; both by conducting sponsored research and data science projects as well as supporting the work of faculty researchers in Kentucky’s university community. Prior to initiating his career as a researcher, Dr. Walton worked as a medical social worker in a variety of healthcare settings, including an academic medical center, psychiatric settings, and an addiction treatment center. His particular research interests sit at the intersection of social work, child welfare, economics, and public health. Specifically, he is interested in helping to develop new insights to guide policy and practice to promote the safety and wellness of children and families; including investigations of social and health policy, and interventions to assist families that are simultaneously impacted by substance use disorders and cases of child maltreatment.