The Academy Team

Alexander Blount, Ed.D., is a Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School, where he founded the Center for Integrated Primary Care (CIPC), the oldest and largest Web-based training program in behavioral health integration.  He also is President of Integrated Primary Care, Inc., a firm offering consultation and training to organizations wishing to begin or improve behavioral health integration and patient-centered care.

Dr. Blount has been practicing as a clinician, trainer, administrator, author, teacher, and consultant for more than 45 years. He has been a behavioral health clinician in primary care for 20 of those years. His books include Integrated Primary Care: The Future of Medical and Mental Health Collaboration, published by W. W. Norton, and Patient-Centered Primary Care, published by Springer. In addition, he has published over 20 articles and chapters on Behavioral Health Integration, as well as developing resources websites in Integrated Primary Care, Team-Based Care, and Workforce Development. 

Dr. Blount is Past-Chair of the NIAC. He is past president of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, a national multidisciplinary organization promoting the inclusion of behavioral health services in medical settings, and past editor of Families, Systems, & Health, the Journal of Collaborative Family Healthcare, published by the American Psychological Association.  

Bryant Campbell is an Oregon native who has spent the past 24 years serving in Oregon State Government, currently serving as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Director for Oregon’s Business Development Department. Over the past 14 years Mr. Campbell has built a passion for advancing healthcare for patients who are underserved, misunderstood or often unheard and unseen. 

Mr. Campbell spent several years as member of Patient and Family Advisory Council for Providence Medical Group and as guest faculty for the Institute for Patient and Family Centered Care (IPFCC), sharing the patient experience and working with healthcare organizations helping to bring value to patient engagement. He also serves as a Public Member for the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM).  These unique experiences allows the opportunity for organizations to utilize the lens of a community member as they navigate to serve the ever changing needs of patients and the communities they represent.

Frank Verloin deGruy III, M.D., M.S.F.M., was the founding chair of AHRQ’s National Integration Academy Council (NIAC), a position he held for ten years (2011-2021).He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. Between 1999 and 2021, he was the Woodward-Chisholm Chair of that department. Dr. deGruy received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1970 (sociology, religion) and his medical degree in 1977 from the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He completed a family medicine residency at The Medical Center in Columbus, Georgia in 1980 and a Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship in Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1982. He has previously held academic appointments in the Departments of Family Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, Duke University, and the University of South Alabama.

Dr. deGruy has served as president of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) and president of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG). For ten years he served on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the National Network of Depression Centers (NNDC) and served for twenty years on the Family Physicians’ Inquiries Network (FPIN). He has previously served on the editorial boards of The Annals of Family Medicine; Families, Systems, and Health; General Hospital Psychiatry; and Psychiatric Times, and was an Associate Editor of the Southern Medical Journal. Has published about 200 papers, chapters, and commentaries, and has reviewed grant applications for the NIH, AHRQ, HRSA, and the RWJF. He has been a member of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) since 2008. Most of his current activities are aimed at community-based integrated health improvement solutions, particularly for underserved and disadvantaged people.

Stephen DiGiovanni, M.D., graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University in 1996. He completed his pediatric residency and a pediatric chief year at Maine Medical Center from 1997 to 2001. He then provided primary pediatric care at Bayview Pediatrics in Yarmouth Maine for 9 years. In 2011, he returned to Maine Medical Center to teach and provide care at the MMC Pediatric Clinic Residency Clinic.

Since 2013, Dr. DiGiovanni has been the Medical Director for the Maine Medical Center Outpatient Clinics. The Clinics serve a diverse population while providing an excellent platform for primary care medical education for residents and medical students. He is also the Medical Lead for the MaineHealth Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Resiliency Program. The objectives of the program are to prevent, identify and treat Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Mark Duncan, M.D., has pursued a career at the intersection of mental health and primary care, training in both family medicine and addiction psychiatry. He currently practices in various integrated care settings, including collaborative care and Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) programs, and specializes in bringing addiction treatment to primary care settings.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from North Park University and his M.D. from Rush University, both in Chicago, Illinois. He completed a residency in family medicine at West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois. After identifying a need for improved mental health and addiction treatment in primary care, he continued his training at the University of Washington psychiatry residency program in Seattle, followed by further specialized training through the University of Washington addiction psychiatry fellowship.

Dr. Duncan currently practices adult general psychiatry and addiction psychiatry at the University of Washington Psychiatry Clinic and Northgate Primary Care clinic. He co-leads the University of Washington's Psychiatry and Addiction Case Conference, a statewide weekly online educational program providing support to primary care and behavioral medicine clinics around addiction and psychiatric care. His research interests include looking at ways to increase access to addiction treatment through team-based care, technology, and streamlining workflows. He is board certified in adult psychiatry, and addiction psychiatry. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington.

Michael Hogan, Ph.D., is a consultant and advisor on health and behavioral health issues. He served as New York State Commissioner of Mental Health from 2007 to 2012. The NYS Office of Mental Health operated 23 accredited psychiatric hospitals and oversaw New York’s $5 billion public mental health system, serving 650,000 individuals annually. Previously, Dr. Hogan served as Director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health from 1991 to 2007 and Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health from 1987 to 1991. From 2021-2023 he served as Special Master and then Court Monitor for a Federal Court overseeing an Olmstead case concerning Mississippi’s mental health system.

Dr. Hogan chaired the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health during 2002--2003, served as the first behavioral health representative on the board of The Joint Commission (2007-2015) and chaired its Standards and Survey Procedures Committee. He has served as a founding member of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention since 2010, where he cochaired a task force that developed the Zero Suicide model for suicide prevention in health care, and another that developed recommendations for crisis care being brought to life with the designation of 9-8-8 as a national crisis line number. He served two terms as a member of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) National Mental Health Advisory Council. His consulting work has focused on preventing suicide in health care systems and on improving crisis care.

Dr. Hogan’s awards for national leadership include recognition by the National Governors Association, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the Campaign for Mental Health Reform, the American College of Mental Health Administration, and the American Psychiatric Association. He is a graduate of Cornell University and earned an M.S. degree from the State University College in Brockport, New York, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. His interests in behavioral health integration include advocacy for improved behavioral health care and suicide prevention in primary care and for improved medical care within the specialty mental health sector. His professional hope is to help make care for the brain as seamless as care for the heart.

Parinda Khatri, Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer at Cherokee Health Systems (CHS). CHS is a Federally Qualified Health Center and licensed Community Mental Health Center that provides comprehensive primary care, behavioral health, dental, optometry, pharmacy, and outreach services to over 70,000 people in Tennessee. With twenty-one clinics and over 30 outreach sites in urban and rural areas of the state, CHS serves diverse communities, including rural Appalachian, inner-city/urban, Refugee and New American populations, and has HRSA-funded designations to care for individuals and families experiencing homelessness, migratory and seasonal agricultural workers, and residents of public housing. CHS’ commitment to high quality, innovative, and patient-centered care has been recognized by awards from HRSA, NCQA, and the National Center for Primary Care. CHS is a national leader in the integration of primary care and behavioral health and provides consultation and technical assistance to healthcare organizations and professionals across the country. CHS is also an Area Health Education Center (AHEC) in Tennessee, and a noted leader in training and education of health professionals in community health.

Dr. Khatri earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and master’s and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in clinical psychology. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center. She has held teaching appointments at Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Texas A & M University, and the University of Tennessee. Prior to her role as CEO, she served as Chief Clinical Officer at CHS, where she provided oversight and guidance on clinical quality, program development and management, workforce development, clinical research, and clinical operations for blended primary care and behavioral health services within the organization. She has been Principal Investigator of several research and education programs at CHS, including the NIH funded All of Us Research Program and Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities. She presents and publishes in the areas of integrated primary behavioral health, behavioral health policy, health equity, and population health. She has been awarded the Susan P. Smith Award of Excellence by the Tennessee Primary Care Association, the Don Bloch Award by the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association, and the Excellence in Education and Teaching award by the Society of Health Psychology. 

Neil Korsen, M.D., M.Sc., is a family physician/geriatrician with 18 years of practice experience, mostly in small towns in Maine. He left clinical practice in 2001 when he received an Advanced Research Training Grant from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Since that time, he has worked on the translation of research to practice, initially focusing on improving care for depression and later on behavioral health integration. He was the Medical Director of Behavioral Health Integration for MaineHealth, where he worked with a team to create a nationally recognized program. Dr. Korsen has received funding for this work from the MacArthur Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Maine Health Access Foundation, He has also done research on other topics including shared decision making and lung cancer screening implementation. 

Dr. Korsen is a physician scientist at the Center for Interdisciplinary Population and Health Research, part of the MaineHealth Institute for Research, in Portland, Maine. He is a Research Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Korsen is a graduate of Dartmouth College (A.B.); Hahnemann Medical College (M.D.); and The Dartmouth Institute, where he received an M.S. in Evaluative Clinical Science.

Beth McGinty, PH.D., M.S., is the Livingston Farrand Professor of Public Health and Chief of the Division of Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. She conducts research focused on how health policies affect populations with complex health and social needs, including people experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder, chronic pain, and others. Her work is characterized by integrating approaches from the fields of public policy, health economics, and implementation science to understand how policies affect population health.

Dr. McGinty studies how healthcare financing and other types of policies influence care integration for people with mental illness or substance use disorders. She has led research studying Maryland’s Affordable Care Act Health Home Waiver to integrate primary and specialty mental healthcare for people with serious mental illness; evaluated behavioral health home models for care integration; and led research examining primary care providers’ attitudes toward integrating substance use disorder treatment into their practice. She has served on multiple prominent advisory groups, including a United National Technical Consultation Panel on Stigma Reduction and Drug Use, a White House Task Force on suicide prevention, and on the Joseph R. Biden Campaign Behavioral Health Committee.

Dr. McGinty holds a Master of Science from Columbia University and a doctorate in health and public policy from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Previously, she was a professor and the associate chair for research and practice in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as well as the director of the Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy and the ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness.

Noah Nesin, M.D., FAAFP, has been a family doctor in Maine since 1986, first in a private, solo practice and then in FQHCs (Health Access Network in Lincoln as Medical Director and Penobscot Community Health Care, based in Bangor, as Chief Medical Officer). He currently serves as the Medical Director for Research & Innovation at Community Care Partnership of Maine, Maine’s most successful ACO. Throughout his career, he has led efforts in evidence-based prescribing and in practice transformation to improve efficiency and to use health care resources judiciously. He has mentored PA, nurse practitioner and medical students, and Family Practice residents throughout his career.

Dr. Nesin serves as the chair of Maine’s Academic Detailing Advisory Committee, the body which oversees the Maine Independent Clinical Information Service, sits on the Advisory Committee for the Lunder Dineen Health Education Alliance of Maine, was a co-founder of Maine Quality Counts’ Maine Chronic Pain Collaborative, is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management, serves on the Board of the Bangor Area Recovery Network. He is also a member of Maine’s Opioid Clinical Advisory Group and Maine’s Governor has appointed him chair of the Maine Prescription Drug Affordability Board and as a member of Maine’s Board of Licensure in Medicine. He is the immediate Past-President of the Maine Public Health Association.

Dr. Nesin has been recognized by Tufts University School of Medicine with the Leon Levinson Prize in Physiology, by the Maine Academy of Family Physicians with the Doctor of the Year Award, by Maine Quality Counts with the Lisa Letourneau Award, by the Maine Medical Association with the President’s Award, and by Governor Janet Mills with the Governor’s Award.

Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, ABPP, CSOWM, is a Board-Certified Clinical Health Psychologist and a Board-Certified Specialist in Obesity and Weight Management. She is the Primary Care Track Coordinator for the Clinical Psychology Internship, Associate Chair for Professional Development & Scholarship for the Department of Family & Community Medicine, and an Associate Professor on the Tenure-Track of Family & Community Medicine. She also has a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Additionally, she serves as an Assistant Dean for Faculty in the Office for Faculty within the Long School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio. 

Dr. Ogbeide is nationally known for her work in behavioral health integration in primary care, serving on committees such as the National Integration Academy Council through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Integrated Primary Care Advisory Group through the American Psychological Association, as well as an Associate Editor for the journal Families, Systems, & Health. She has over 50 scholarly publications and over 150 professional presentations conducted nationally and internationally.

Dr. Ogbeide’s professional areas of interest include: The Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) consultation model, behavioral medicine/health psychology, faculty development and mentorship for those who are underrepresented within academic medicine, clinical supervision in primary care, and primary care workforce development. Her work has been featured on Texas Public Radio, in the San Antonio Express-News, and in other news media outlets. 

C.J. Peek, Ph.D. is Professor in the Dept. Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. A clinical psychologist trained at University of Colorado Boulder, he has worked toward integration of behavioral health and primary care as clinician, program implementer, clinician supervisor, member of research teams, and consultant to agencies and organizations. He gravitates toward situations where cacophony of terms and the use of language can confuse and divide or clarify and unify; listening with groups to evolve the shared language needed to reduce ambiguity and confusion while enabling action with their shared work. 

Along these lines, Dr. Peek has focused on functional definition of integrated behavioral health, harmonizing care, education and research in academic centers, productive conversations across disciplines, roles, and organizational areas while building research capacity in primary care and improving organizational effectiveness and leadership.  He has published and presented widely on a blend of clinical, organizational, lexical/definitional, research, and leadership topics in family medicine and psychology journals and organizations.

James Stevens serves as the Tribal Administrator in the Native Village of Atka. He has over 40 years of experience in the development and implementation of programs, infrastructure, and businesses in remote, frontier locations in Alaska with an emphasis on integrating programs to reflect the perspectives of positive Tribal governance. This experience includes Tribally managed programs delivering housing, transportation, community facilities, telecommunications, tourism, mineral exploration, distance learning, telehealth, and health care services.  

Mr. Stevens' experience in the development of integrated health care services began in 2014 during employment at a regional Tribal Health Care Organization, the Southcentral Foundation (SCF), which served a mixed urban and rural area. SCF was the first health care organization to integrate medical, behavioral, and cultural services. During this period, SCF conducted internal reviews of the effectiveness of integrated health care as part of its grants performance, monitoring and data reporting. As Manager of Grants, Mr. Stevens was involved with the development of data collection and the geriatric workforce and education program funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Based on this experience and personal perspective of the impact and efficacy of programs targeting disadvantaged populations, he was invited to become a member of the SCF federal advisory committee and eventually the chairman.

Despite the lack of medical credentials or a college degree, Mr. Stevens has been able to effectively evaluate integrated health care programs and participate in meetings with federal advisory committees composed of academics and medical professionals and offer the perspective of an enrolled member of a federally recognized Tribe, the Native Village of Eagle. 

Shenghan Xu, Ph.D., is an associate professor of operations and supply chain management at the College of Business and Economics at the University of Idaho. She is a distinguished leader in healthcare innovation, renowned for her significant contributions to healthcare digital transformation, multi-system integration, and performance evaluation. With 25 years of expertise in business operations, supply chain integration, and strategic consulting, she thoroughly understands the significant barriers and intricacy of tradeoffs to large-scale implementation and adoption of healthcare initiatives. She excels at optimizing the strategic and operational executions of driving revenue growth, cost reduction, and enhancing customer satisfaction. Her extensive knowledge of supply chain management, process optimization, project management, lean/Six Sigma, and business strategy makes her an invaluable asset in implementing a cost-effective whole-person healthcare that integrates primary care and behavioral health services. 

Dr. Xu's exceptional leadership and collaboration have been instrumental in transforming Idaho’s primary care into patient-centered medical homes (PCMH) and providing value-based care. Her influence in shaping state-level healthcare policies is evidenced by her active participation in high-level committees, including the governor-appointed Idaho Health Coalition Committee and the Idaho Healthcare Multi-Payer Workgroup. She has spearheaded the adoption of analytics and electronic health records in the primary care and behavioral health sector. As the principal investigator of the Statewide Healthcare Innovation Program (SHIP) State Evaluation Project, she led the statewide quality assurance and evaluation. She also co-founded the TeleECHO Hub (ECHO Idaho project) in 2018, in partnership with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, to deliver life-saving best practices to all Idaho residents. The TeleECHO project has become a cornerstone of virtual continuing education for Idaho's healthcare workforce, educating thousands of healthcare professionals since its inception. She is leading a critical project evaluating Oregon’s state-level suicide prevention hotline (988) call center operation and behavioral healthcare integration. 

Dr. Xu's interdisciplinary research spans two key areas: healthcare supply chain coordination and integration, sustainability, diversity, equity, and governmental issues in supply chain and business operations. She is a respected authority in her field, with over 100 intellectual contributions published in prestigious journals and conferences. She is a member of the editorial board for both the International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences and the American Journal of Operations Research.

Jennifer Yturriondobeitia, MSW, DBH, is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Whole Healthcare Organization, Inc. (C-WHO), a 501(c)(3) private non-profit dedicated to enhancing health conditions for underserved communities, especially in rural areas. With a commitment to driving positive change, she leads a dynamic team of thought leaders, content experts, project managers, data scientists, clinicians, and information technology specialists.

C-WHO operates at the intersection of innovation and compassion, offering a diverse range of services to empower organizations to survive and thrive in the dynamic landscape of health and healthcare. Dr. Yturriondobeitia collaborates with clinically integrated networks (CIN) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO), working closely with clinicians, practices, and facilities in conventional networks. She specializes in practice transformation, partnering with payers to establish frameworks that deliver high-value care.

In her role, Dr. Yturriondobeitia provides invaluable operational expertise to primary and specialty care practices across the Pacific Northwest. Her focus includes implementing health workforce strategies, fostering team-based care, and developing population health strategies. With over 25 years of experience in direct service and administration in community mental health, behavioral health integration, and public health services, she brings a wealth of knowledge and a passion for making a meaningful impact.