{"id":111,"date":"2025-06-22T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T13:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2025-06-29T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T16:24:29","slug":"team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Our team of more than 20 scientists, researchers, consultants, and others experienced in quality improvement training has worked with individual behavioral healthcare organizations and national, state, county, and city agencies on multiple projects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leadership<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The following individuals provide leadership to the NIATx Foundation Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Todd Molfenter, Ph.D<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation President<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Todd Molfenter, Ph.D., <\/strong>serves as President of the NIATx Foundation. He has spent the past 20 years leading and studying performance improvement in health systems. His recent work has focused on how to use evidence-based practices to address the opioid epidemic. He specializes in the use of learning collaboratives to prompt organizational change, and has helped many clients, including the Health Care Finance Administration, Voluntary Hospitals of America, and the Harvard Risk Management Foundation to develop more effective approaches to foster change in their organizations. Read more..<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lynn Madden, Ph.D., MPA<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board of Directors President<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Lynn Madden, Ph.D., MPA<\/strong>, serves as the President of the NIATx Foundation Board of Directors. Lynn has served as Chief Executive Officer of the APT Foundation, a non-profit agency founded by members of the Yale University Department of Psychiatry to promote health and recovery for those who live with substance use disorders and\/or mental illness. Dr. Madden is a well-known consultant and NIATX Coach working throughout the United States since 2004, specializing improving treatment access and program outcomes through the use of rapid cycle process improvement. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dick Dillon<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board of Directors Vice President and Treasurer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Dick Dillon <\/strong>serves as Vice President and Treasurer of the NIATx Foundation Board of Directors. Dick has worked in the behavioral health field for over 35 years, starting with a volunteer coordinator role and holding most clinical and management positions, including COO of a large Midwest non-profit counseling agency. In November, 2011, he formed Innovaision, LLC. to focus on helping behavioral health and other human services organizations become more innovative and effective. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Board of Directors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The NIATx Foundation Board is made up of industry leaders in their respective fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lisa Blanchard, MA, LHMC<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Chief Clinical Officer, Spectrum Health Systems, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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John Coppola, MSW<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Retired Executive Director, New York Association of Addiction Service Providers (ASAP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kana Enomoto, MA<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Director of Brain Health, McKinsey Health Institute;
Partner, McKinsey & Company<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Patrick Gauthier<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Director, AHP HealthCare Solutions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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David Gustafson, Ph.D.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Founder and Director, Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS);
Emeritus Research Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ed Kopetsky<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Retired Executive Vice President and CIO, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Annie Peters, Ph.D., LP<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, NAATP Foundation for Recovery Science and Education (FoRSE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christopher Wilkins, Sr., MHA<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

NIATx Foundation Board Member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sr. Vice President for Operations, Mountain Lake Associates;
Strategic Consultant, Discovery Behavioral Health<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Experience You Can Count On<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The NIATx Foundation team is committed to working with all stakeholders to break through barriers that limit delivery of life-saving SUD care. Our network of experts offers the experience, expertise, and guidance to ensure that efficient, effective, impactful, accountable, and, importantly, sustainable<\/strong> systems of care emerge to serve patients and families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consultants bring experience from many fields, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • State Government<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Social Work<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Clinical Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Quality Improvement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Business Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Process Improvement<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Implementation Science<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Healthcare Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Leadership The following individuals provide leadership to the NIATx Foundation Board of Directors. Todd Molfenter, Ph.D NIATx Foundation President Todd Molfenter, Ph.D., serves as President of the NIATx Foundation. He has spent the past 20 years leading and studying performance improvement in health systems. His recent work has focused on how to use evidence-based practices to address […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.niatxfoundation.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}