Dr. Cara C. Lewis is a clinical psychologist, senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and affiliate faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. She is a Beck Scholar with expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She is Past President of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) and co-founding Editor-in-Chief of Implementation Research and Practice, a journal published in partnership with SIRC and Sage Publications.

Dr. Williams is an addictions health services and disparities researcher and an implementation scientist with expertise in social determinants of health. She is a Professor of Health Systems and Population Health and Director of the Doctoral Program in Health Services at the University of Washington. She holds affiliate appointments at the Denver-Seattle Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered Value-Driven Care, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, and serves as co-Editor-In-Chief of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice.

Stephen Maisto is a Professor of Psychology at Syracuse University. Dr. Maisto has been involved in clinical practice, research, and training on the assessment and treatment of substance use disorders, including MOBCs, for the past 35 years. He has attended the MOBC satellite meeting since its beginning.

Brett Hagman is a Program Director of the Treatment, Health Services, and Recovery Branch at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Dr. Hagman manages the following grant portfolios in : 1) Mechanisms of Behavior Change; (MOBC) 2) Processes of Recovery; and 3) Research Methods and Statistics.

Molly Magill is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Magill’s research has focused on treatment-related MOBC for the entirety of her career, and she has recently been awarded a K02 from NIAAA to intersect this work with Implementation Science.

Dr. Sara Becker is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. Effective August 1st, she will be the Alice Hamilton Professor of Psychiatry and the Inaugural Director of the Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She conducts dissemination and implementation research focused on promoting the uptake of effective addictions treatments in community settings.

Kevin Hallgren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, at the University of Washington. Dr. Hallgren’s research focuses on improving access to treatment, improving the quality of treatment, and understanding mechanisms of change in treatment for alcohol use disorders. Dr. Hallgren is currently conducting an NIAAA K01 project to develop and implement a tool to assess MOBC in addictions treatment.

Margo Hurlocker is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Hurlocker’s research has focused on the etiology, prevention, and treatment of addictive behaviors, and she has recently been awarded a K23 from NIDA to improve addiction treatment services with Implementation Science.

Dr. Kwako is a clinical psychologist and program officer in the Division of Treatment and Recovery, Health Services, and Recovery Branch (THSRB), at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Her research portfolio focuses on health services, including treatment availability, quality, and use, along with health care systems and integration of various health care services.

Dr. Mendon-Plasek is currently a Health Policy Researcher at the RAND corporation, and previously completed a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University- New York State Psychiatric Institute. As an implementation scientist, Sapna’s research aims to have wide- reaching impact in the delivery of behavioral healthcare services. Sapna’s research agenda is organized around three domains: (1) refining implementation strategies, (2) impact of large-scale policy changes and the transition to value-based care, and (3) best practices to sustain and scale-up evidence-based initiatives.

Samuel Acuff is a doctoral student at the University of Memphis where he has developed a line of research exploring contextual, environmental, and social mechanisms of behavior change to inform intervention approaches. He will begin clinical internship in a few days at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University.

Rachel Bachrach, PhD, is a Research Health Scientist and Core Investigator with the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) and the Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center at the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS) as well as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

Kalina Fahey is a 4th year doctoral candidate in the Health Psychology track at Oregon State University. Ms. Fahey's work to date has focused on 2 main aims: 1) Parsing out the unique effects religion and spirituality on health; 2) examining the relationship between stress and health in LGBTQ+ communities.

Neo Gebru is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Health Education and Behavior at the University of Florida. Neo is also an NIH/NIAAA F31 fellow and incoming post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies (CAAS) at Brown University. Neo's long-term goal is to establish a program of research focused on identifying and intervening upon factors that underlie health-related decisions.

J.C. Gonzalez (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to his graduate training, J.C. studied evidence-based practice sustainment in Los Angeles County where his training in implementation science began. During his doctoral studies, he has employed community- partnered and mixed-methods research to reduce disparities in access to effective mental health services among the Latinx community.

Melissa Hatch is a fist-year Clinical Psychology doctoral student at the University of New Mexico . Her research interests include 1) examining mechanisms of behavior change in high-risk individuals with alcohol or substance use disorder and 2) working with community organizations to improve the uptake of evidence-based practices to reduce client/patient attrition and remove barriers to facilitate a harm-reduction approach to treatment.

Dr. Cathryn (Cassie) Holzhauer is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and a Research Psychologist at the Veteran Affairs Central Western Massachusetts. Dr. Holzhauer’s current career development award is a randomized trial, using a microintervention design, to test the impact of emotion regulation strategies on stress-induced drinking and mediating mechanisms among women veterans.

Lourah Kelly, Ph.D. is a Clinical Research Associate I at UConn School of Medicine in the Calhoun Cardiology Division of Behavioral Health. Her research focuses broadly on the intersection between alcohol use and suicidality and integrated technology-based interventions for co-occurring alcohol use and mental health problems, particularly for young people.

Dr. Traci Kennedy is a clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her research involves understanding and mitigating momentary risk for real-world alcohol use and problems,. Through an NIAAA-supported K23 Award, she is developing and testing a novel mHealth intervention that targets momentary inhibitory control to reduce problematic alcohol use among young adults.

Dr. Le is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and an investigator at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Value-based Care Research. Her research focuses on the application of health economics and decision science to support evidence-based medical decision making and inform public health policy.

Sam Meisel is a licensed clinical psychologist and a NIAAA F32 funded postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown University and Bradley Hospital. Sam’s research during graduate school took a developmentally informed approach to studying the initiation and escalation of adolescent substance use.

David “Ikela” Moniz-Lewis is a second-year Clinical Psychology Ph.D. student in the Addictive Behaviors and Quantitative Research Lab at the University of New Mexico. His primary research interests include the utilization of mindfulness-based interventions in the treatment of substance use disorders, particularly within marginalized populations.

Dezarie Moskal is a first-year postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Integrated Healthcare, VA Western NY Healthcare System. Her program of research is focused on improving functioning for Veterans with substance use problems and related health conditions, in particular alcohol use and chronic pain.

Marianne Pugatch is a health services researcher and licensed clinical social worker. She is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Clifford Attkisson Clinical Services Research Training Program jointly in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dylan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Alcohol, Substance use, And Addictions (CASAA) at the University of New Mexico. His research interest is in better understanding the motivational processes underlying harm reduction behaviors for substance use, particularly alcohol and cannabis.

Dr. Lin Tan is currently a Research Scientist at the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC). Lin has been formally trained in developmental sciences and applied statistics. Since joining the UNTHSC in 2021, she has developed interests in conducting high-quality applied clinical research and implementing evidence-based interventions.

Terrill O. Taylor is a 4th year doctoral candidate in Counseling Psychology at the University of North Dakota. His research interests center on issues of racial equity and restorative justice. He seeks to investigate ways to improve positive behavioral change for people of color by promoting pathways for healing racial trauma through community dialogues and organizational collaborations.

Victoria (Tori) Votaw is a Clinical Psychology Ph.D. candidate and NIAAA F31 Predoctoral Fellow at the University of New Mexico. Her primary research interests include improving behavioral and pharmacological treatments for substance use disorders using precision medicine approaches. Tori considers research on mechanisms of behavior change an essential complement to her research program.

Maya is a fourth-year clinical psychology doctoral candidate, NIAAA Pre-Doctoral Fellow, and graduate student member of the Trauma and Stress Studies Center at the University of Houston. Maya’s dissertation, “Daily State-like Distress Tolerance and Alcohol Use Motivation among Hazardous Drinkers with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,” is funded by an NIAAA F31 National Research Service Award.