Judith Cook, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an internationally recognized authority on mental health services research. She is the Principal Investigator of a NIDILRR funded RRTC on health outcomes for individuals with psychiatric disabilities and an expert in employment research and outcomes. Dr. Cook works with federal, state and local authorities on behavioral health service system redesign.
Stephen Bartels, MD, MS
Director, The Mongan Institute
James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Massachusetts General Hospital
100 Cambridge Street, Suite 1600
Boston, Mass, 02114
sjbartels@mgh.harvard.edu
Stephen Bartels MD, MS is the inaugural James J. and Jean H. Mongan Chair in Health Policy and Community Health, Director of the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The Mongan Institute serves as the academic home for 12 research centers and over 145 research faculty and research fellows at MGH dedicated to training and research in population and health care delivery team science aimed at achieving health equity and improving the lives of people with complex health needs. The Mongan Institute bridges research spanning data science to delivery science, and evaluative science to implementation science including a variety of disciplines and methods such as epidemiology, predictive analytics, cost-effectiveness, health policy, decision science, health disparities, health intervention and implementation research. Over the academic 2021-2022 year, Mongan Institute faculty published over 1600 peer reviewed articles and as principal investigators were responsible for over $108M in research funding. (https://www.monganinstitute.org/ )
Before coming to MGH from Dartmouth in 2018, he was the Herman O West Professor of Geriatrics, Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Community & Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and Professor of Health Policy at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. At Dartmouth he established and directed the Dartmouth Centers for Health and Aging and served as Co-Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s SYNERGY Clinical Translational Science Institute, Principal Investigator for Dartmouth’s CDC Health Promotion Research Center, and Principal Investigator for two T32 post-doctoral research training programs.
Dr. Bartels has authored over 365 publications and has mentored over 50 early career investigators. Over the past several decades he has led productive research developing, testing, and implementing interventions focused on complex health conditions and health disparities, co-occurring physical and mental disorders, health care management, health coaching, health promotion interventions for obesity and smoking, aging and geriatrics, automated telehealth and mobile technology, population health science, applied health care delivery science, and implementation science. As a national expert on implementation research he previously served as Chair for the National Institute of Health Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (DIRH) Study Section and currently oversees the implementation research and training program at the Mongan Institute and serves as Co-PI for the Methods Unit for a NCI P50 “Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control Equity”.
Kayla Hoffstein, LCSW, is a Training Associate within the College Mental Health Education Programs (CMHEP) at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation in the College of Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College at Boston University. Kayla joined the team Spring 2023 as an instructor in the CMHEP, NITEO, and College Coach. Kayla brings a commitment to promoting equity and self-determination. She has experience working with students in public schools and young adults in community-based mental health. Kayla is passionate about working at the intersection of mental health and education to support individuals with the different roles and goals they hold. Kayla utilizes trauma-informed approaches to partner with students and support them in building desired skills, relationships, and communities.
Areas of Expertise
- Teaching strategies for academic success and developing interpersonal relationships
- Coaching students to regain a valued role through skill building and choice
Alex Shulman, M.A., is a Research Assistant at the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, where he has worked since early 2021. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, with a B.S. in Social and Cultural History, and of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with an M.A. in United States and Latin American History. Additionally, he completed a user experience design immersive course at General Assembly, a computer and digital technology school, and added user experience background research and usability testing to his skillset. Through his educational and professional background in history, his first professional positions included working as a guide and researcher at a number of museums and historic sites in the Greater Boston area.
His work at the Center includes qualitative data analysis for a study exploring workplace stigma resistance among peer support specialists and fidelity assessments for a Vocational Empowerment Photovoice series of courses. He is currently working on a grant about state-level policies and older individuals with serious mental illness.
Prior to his work at BU, he was a research and design team assistant at C4 Innovations, a mission-driven small business that advances recovery, wellness, and housing stability for people who are marginalized. During his 7 years at C4, he collaborated on several Small Business Innovation Research projects which identified the ways that young adults with schizophrenia use social media. Additionally, he assisted with user testing and data analysis of a motivational interviewing simulator, qualitative data analysis of the connections between racism and homelessness, and a video game for young people with psychosis. He also worked on the design phase of these projects by assisting in quality assurance, usability testing, and accessibility compliance.
He identifies as a person in long term recovery from mental health and substance use and uses his recovery journey to inform his work.