Professional Experience & Education: Hank is a nationally recognized psychiatrist, hospital executive, author and mental health advocate. He currently serves as Psychiatrist-in-Chief Emeritus at The Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital.  At The Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital, Hank led a full-service psychiatric hospital system with a broad continuum of clinical and training programs and multiple research centers. He founded the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, a state-of-the-art fMRI brain imaging and genetics center devoted to research on severe mental illness, and the Anxiety Disorders Center, with clinical and research programs in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the anxiety disorders.  He has published over 80 articles, book chapters or books, primarily on issues at the interface of psychiatry, law, ethics, and public policy. He is a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has won numerous awards and honors.

Hank received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency at New York Hospital / Cornell Medical Center Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic and a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center.

In 2000, Hank served on the (Connecticut) Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Mental Health. Following the mass murder in Newtown, Governor Malloy appointed him to the Governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission and he subsequently served as a co-author of the Sandy Hook Report issued by the Connecticut Office of the Child Advocate. He is a past-President of the Connecticut Psychiatric Society where he has served as Legislative Chair for over 20 years – testifying frequently at the legislature on matters vital to mental health and contributing to the crafting of mental health statutes in Connecticut, including the state’s mental health parity law.

He is Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Adjunct, in the Yale University School of Medicine.

Why Mindyra?: “Having served in leadership roles throughout my career, I am all too familiar with the quality of services generally available to those in need of behavioral health care.  While sometimes excellent, that care is often variable in quality and, in many cases, difficult to access.  I was attracted to Mindyra for its focus on the key quality issues:  the provision of reliable, valid and easy to use assessment tools, education, client tools and treatment options that are just a click away, a unique outcomes measurement system to keep clients on the right treatment path and a focus on proactive wellness alongside clinical care.  Mindyra is taking us into the future of behavioral health and wellness.”

Professional Experience & Education: Mike has been Acadia Healthcare’s Chief Medical Officer since 2017 and has brought years of patient-facing experience to Acadia’s leadership team. He is a clinical psychiatrist and addiction specialist. Mike graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. and before beginning his medical studies, earned a JD degree at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He did his Residency Training in Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut from 2001 to 2004 and was a Fellow at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program at the New York University School of Medicine from 2004 to 2005. He is also a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Mike serves on the CMO Corporate Council of The Joint Commission, seeking to optimize quality and safety in healthcare. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry and the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He is a member of the New York Bar and the American Bar Association and is an advocate for attorneys and first responders seeking treatment for addiction and co-occurring disorders.

Why Mindyra?: “Accurately and systematically evaluating the mental health of patients utilizing standardized, validated measures in acute psychiatric hospitals has, for many years, presented a number of unique challenges.  After reviewing the literature and consulting with several acute psychiatric hospital CMO’s, it became apparent that there is no industry standard measurement tool to systematically track the problems and progress of acute psychiatric patients. Mindyra collaborated with Acadia to apply a new testing system across an entire healthcare system. 

Working together to apply this testing system across all of Acadia Healthcare allowed us to gather data from thousands of patients and gave us the ability to look at how the our testing system compares with alternative measurement tools.

In our view, there is no better current alternative that clinicians are using in the acute psychiatric space. As we see more movement in the direction of having national benchmarks to better understand patient care, we believe our partnership with Mindyra represents an opportunity to lead that change. As our health system moves towards value-based care, a testing system like Mindyra’s allows us to track patient progress and puts us ahead of the pack in the acute setting. It now becomes quite straightforward to demonstrate the improvements our patients make in a more objective and scalable manner. “

Professional Experience & Education: Lloyd is a psychiatrist, public health doctor and non-fiction writer.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University School of Public Health, and has previously served as Chief Medical Officer and EVP of McLean Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital; Mental Health Commissioner of NYC (in the Bloomberg administration); and Chief Medical Officer of the NYS Office of Mental Health, the nation’s largest state MH Agency. Graduated with a BS from City College of New York and received his MD from the State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center.  He completed his Residency in Psychiatry at SUNY, Upstate Medical Center.

Lloyd has delivered numerous “named” lectures. His awards include the Rockefeller Scholar in Residence, Doctor of the Year from the National Council on Behavioral Health, both Administrator and Teacher of the Year from the American Psychiatric Association, the Dutch Psychiatric Association’s Certificate of Honor, and The Courage To Change from the NYS Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services. 

His interest in writing has led him to publish 13 books, the first seven for medical professionals (two with multiple editions) and, more recently, six for a general audience. He has published ~500 articles for print and on-line publications, including the NYT, the WSJ, Scientific American, Lancet, Medscape, The Atlantic, The Tennessean, Commonweal and US News and World Report (where he wrote an Opinion column for 2 years). He was Medical Editor for Mental Health at the HuffPost, where >200 of his articles, audios and videos appeared. He currently is a Contributing Writer for Psychology Today, Psychiatric Times and The NY Journal of Books.  

For 18 sequential semesters he provided a Workshop on Medical Writing for the General Public at the Columbia Department of Psychiatry, where he also founded and directed Columbia Psychiatry Media, which produced, for national distribution, interviews, podcasts and articles by experts on mental health and the addictions, including a Resident/Fellow column for a popular psychiatry publication, and Resident/Fellow Podcast . He has convened conferences, in partnership with the Columbia School of Journalism, on mental health the addictions and social justice.

Why Mindyra?:  “Because our CEO, Bill Battey, engaged me at the company’s start to help him improve access to and the quality of mental health services.”

Professional Experience & Education: Director, Anxiety Disorders Center, The Institute of Living; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. David received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arkansas, and was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania before moving to Connecticut to establish the Anxiety Disorders Center at The Institute of Living.  The author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and several books, David’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.  He has been given the award for distinguished contribution to the science of psychology, the award for distinguished contribution to the practice of psychology, and the award for lifetime contribution to psychology from the Connecticut Psychological Association.  He has served as president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and the Clinical Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. David regularly provides community workshops to disseminate information about mental health conditions and mental health treatment.

Why Mindyra?: “I was attracted to Mindyra because although psychiatric disorders are extremely common, most people suffering from these disorders do not receive evidence-based care.  Mindyra can help rectify this problem by making clinicians and consumers aware of the conditions being treated, providing solid assessment tools to help clinicians make appropriate diagnoses, point clinicians toward optimal treatment strategies, and assisting with the tracking of patient progress.  This, in my opinion, is a big step forward in our ability to deliver effective treatment to the people who need it most.”

Professional Experience and Education: Hardin is a Professor of Counseling Psychology and Applied Human Development at the Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development.  He is also Dean Emeritus of the College, as well as Professor Emeritus from the University of Wisconsin School of Education.  Hardin  is serving as the Faculty Director for Character and Social Responsibility. His North Star is creating equitable access to high quality learning experiences for all children. His research foci include a) examining the strategies that individuals use to cope with cultural diversity with an interest on how those choices has an impact of behavioral (e.g., academic performance) and socio-emotional (e.g., college adjustment, wellness indicators, depression) indicators, b) exploring ways to implement an equity focused school-based  intervention with integrity and, c) understanding caring as a counterpoint to a polarized community by seeking to integrate the worlds of civic education, character education, social emotional learning, and equity in a way that centers an ethic of care, a focus on the development of one’s own and others character, and the building of caring communities in which our youth are raised and become leaders.

Hardin graduated from Williams College with a B.A. Hardin received his PhD in counseling psychology at Stanford University.

Why Mindyra?: “For almost 4 decades I have been engaged in the field of professional school counseling in both independent and public schools, as a school counselor and school counselor educator.  The role of a school counselor is to facilitate the development of children and adolescents to find a meaningful role in our civil society.  I believe that the services, particularly the assessment tools provided by Mindyra, can help us better understand and overcome barriers to optimal care for children.  Mindyra provides tools that support both individual and system wide change.”