Board of Directors
MICHAEL T. FLAHERTY, PHD
BOARD CHAIR
Dr. Flaherty is a clinical psychologist with more than 45 years of varied practice. Seeking to align science, service and policy, in 1999 he founded the Institute for Research, Education and Training in the Addictions (IRETA); and became the Principal Investigator of its HHS/SAMHSA/CSAT funded Northeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) for 12 years. Dr. Flaherty was previously the Vice President for Behavioral Care at the St. Francis Health System in Pittsburgh and Director of its Institute for Psychiatry and Addiction Services. He has authored over 30 Federal and Foundational grants and more than 45 published articles, chapters and monographs on topics ranging from the science of recovery focused care to workforce development. In 2014-15 he served as an adviser to the White House Office of National Drug Control and the National Heroin Task Force for OD prevention. He also served as subject matter expert for HHS/SAMHSA’s Military, Veterans and Families Substance Use Technical Assistance Center; and past invited adviser to the Betty Ford Institute initial definition of "recovery." In 2015 he served as the lead clinical advisor to U.S. Attorney’s Plan to address O.D. in W. Pa. He is a recipient of the Pittsburgh Psychological Association 2016 Legacy Award for lifetime contributions to the W. Pa. community. In 2024 he attained American Board of Professional Psychology Certification in the Addictions.
Dr. Flaherty is also a retired Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve with 27 years' service on active and reserve duty including service begun in the Vietnam era to other assignments in Bosnia, Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He holds B.A. degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and a M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Duquesne University.
LEIGHTON Y. HUEY, MD
SECRETARY/TREASURER
Dr. Huey is the Associate Dean for Behavioral Health Integration and Community Care Transformation at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine where he is Professor of Psychiatry.
Prior to coming to Pennsylvania in March 2018, Dr. Huey was the Birnbaum/Blum Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut where he had also been Chair of the Department of Psychiatry followed by Associate Dean. He had previously been at Dartmouth Medical School as Vice-Chair and Medical Director in Psychiatry, and before that, was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, where he was also Chief of Psychiatry at the San Diego VA Medical Center. He did his residency at UCSD.
He has a background in psychopharmacology and has been active in health system planning and innovation. Most recently, he is leading a major effort in the application of Resilience into health systems and the general community. He is involved in developing an educational inoculation on resilience and the microbiome for anticipating, expecting, and new parents in two counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
JEANNE MIRANDA, PHD
BOARD Member
Dr. Miranda is a leading expert in developing and evaluating the impact of mental health care interventions on low-income and ethnic minority communities. For the past 30 years, she has led community-partnered research programs on depression treatments for under-resourced communities in the United States and abroad. She developed and is evaluating a resilience intervention for low-income and sexual and gender minority populations in Los Angeles and New Orleans. She has adapted and evaluated her depression interventions for youth in Uganda. Dr. Miranda was the Senior Scientific Editor of Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity: A Report of the Surgeon General. In 2005, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine, now the National Academy of Medicine. Dr. Miranda is the 2008 recipient of the Emily Mumford Award for Contributions to Social Medicine from Columbia University.
From 1988-1992, she was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. In 1992, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she became an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University. In 2001, Dr. Miranda joined the David Geffen School of Medicine and became Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She is currently Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and Center for Health Services and Society.
STAN HUEY, PHD
BOARD Member
Dr. Stan Huey is a Professor of Psychology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC), with a joint appointment in American Studies and Ethnicity. He received his B.A. in Anthropology and Psychology from UC Berkeley in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1998, and joined the USC faculty in 2000.
His research focuses on reducing disparities in behavioral health by optimizing treatments for high-risk populations, particularly under-resourced ethnic minority youth. He and his students use randomized trials, longitudinal methods, and meta-analysis to address important questions about treatment effects and mechanisms with (1) externalizing youth, (2) youth and adults in criminal justice settings, and (3) ethnic minorities with mental health problems.
In recent years, his work has focused on developing and testing brief interventions for ethnic minorities with diverse psychosocial problems; some studies assess the relative benefits of culturally tailored vs “generic” intervention strategies, and others utilize brief strategies to improve treatment engagement.
JOHN A. MORRIS, MSW
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EMERITUS, BOARD MEMBER
John Morris retired in January of 2019 as the founding Executive Director of the Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce. John retired in 2007 as Professor of Clinical Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Director of Health Policy Studies at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Prior to joining the University, he spent more than 25 years in the public behavioral health field as a clinician, administrator, and educator.
He started his career in public mental health as a ward attendant at the South Carolina state hospital, and prior to his move to the University in 1997, he served a two-year interim appointment as South Carolina State Commissioner of Mental Health. A graduate of Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, he later returned annually as Visiting Professor of Mental Health Policy between 1991-2004 and was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the school in 1996. Other awards include the Howery Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for Rural Mental Health, the Feldman Award from the College for Behavioral Health Leadership, and the Ittleson Award for leadership in children’s mental health from the American Orthopsychiatric Association.