MCPAP Leadership
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John
Straus, MD
Founding Medical Director
Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership |
Dr. Straus is the founding director of the Massachusetts Child
Psychiatry Access Program known as MCPAP. MCPAP was the first statewide
program designed to address the shortage of child psychiatrists. MCPAP
is model for the implementation of child psychiatry programs in 30
other states. He is president of the National Network of Child
Psychiatry Access Programs, a non-profit dedicated to providing
technical assistance and support to child psychiatry access programs.
Dr. Straus was responsible for the expansion of MCPAP to include MCPAP
for Moms to address perinatal depression, mental illness, and substance
use. Support for the national expansion of both programs is included in
the FY18 federal budget and the 21st Century Cures Act resulting in
recently announced grants to 18 states for children and 7 states for
moms.
Dr. Straus is Medical Director Special Projects at the Massachusetts
Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP), having retired to part time from
his full time position as Vice President Medical Affairs. Prior to
working at the Partnership, Dr. Straus was medical director of the
Fallon Community Health Plan. He currently is a member of the HEDIS
Behavioral Health Measurement Advisory Panel, having been involved with
HEDIS since its inception. Dr. Straus is responsible for the technique
of health plan measurement known as the “hybrid method."
He is a pediatrician having had a primary care practice for 22
years. Dr. Straus completed medical training at Columbia
University, pediatric training at Strong Memorial Hospital at the
University of Rochester, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar
at Johns Hopkins Medical School.
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Barry
Sarvet, MD
Medical Director |
Dr. Sarvet is Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at University of
Massachusetts-Baystate and has served as statewide medical director for
MCPAP since the program’s inception in 2004. His career has been
focused on the integration of mental health care within primary care
services, improving access to mental health care, and promoting the
dissemination of evidence-based mental health practices. He was awarded
the Simon Wile Award for Consultation Psychiatry by the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) as well as the
Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Public Sector Psychiatry by the
Massachusetts Psychiatric Society for his work in development,
implementation, and dissemination of collaborative models in child
psychiatry practice. He is vice president, treasurer, and founding
board member of the National Network of Child Psychiatry Access
Programs, co-chair of the Mental Health Task Force of the MA chapter of
the American Academy of Pediatrics, and co-chair of the AACAP
Healthcare Access and Economics Committee, and a national trainer for
the American Psychiatric Association in the Collaborative Care Model.
He has published numerous papers and lectured widely across the US on
integrated care, trauma-informed mental health practices, and the
application of health information technology in mental health service
delivery.
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Beth
McGinn
Program Manager |
Beth McGinn is the manager of MCPAP. Ms. McGinn holds her
master’s degree in mental health counseling from Cambridge College. She
brings nearly two decades of experience working in both public health
and direct care services, most recently coordinating a program to
promote early literacy with low income and immigrant populations at the
Cambridge Public Health Department. She has shown leadership in working
with at-risk and vulnerable populations. As an experienced Mental
Health First Aid facilitator, she contributes to reducing stigma around
mental
health. Ms. McGinn has dedicated her career to helping women and
children lead healthy and successful lives.
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Parvena Baldeo
Program Coordinator
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Bio coming soon.
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Joe
Gold, MD
Associate and Eastern Region Medical Director
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Dr. Joseph Gold is the Chief Medical Officer of McLean Hospital. He is
a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1976), trained in
adult psychiatry at the University of Washington in Seattle (1979), and
in child & adolescent psychiatry at McLean (1981). the past 33
years he has worked to improve access to mental health care by creating
a wide range of public sector and private hospital programs for youth
and families. These include community-based services that support
public schools and primary care pediatricians; special education
schools; outpatient, partial hospital, residential and inpatient units;
and specialized services for difficult to treat diagnoses, and
under-served populations including law enforcement and other first
responders and their families. Dr. Gold is an assistant professor in
the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. At McLean in
addition to his CMO role, he is also Chief of the Simches Child
& Adolescent Psychiatry Division. Dr. Gold also helps to
coordinate access for youth across the system, as the Director of
Community Child Psychiatry Services, Partners Psychiatry and Mental
Health (PPMH).
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Jeff Prince, MD
Boston North Team Medical Director
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Jeff Prince is an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in
Boston, the director of child psychiatry for the North Shore Medical
Center in Salem, and the medical director for the Northeast regional
MCPAP at the North Shore Medical Center. Dr. Prince is involved in
research into the characterization and treatment of ADHD across the
lifespan, as well as pediatric mood, anxiety, and substance disorders.
Dr. Prince serves as a member of the Board of the Children’s Trust
Fund. He earned his medical degree from Emory University School of
Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed his residencies in
psychiatry and acute psychiatry service at Massachusetts General
Hospital. Dr. Prince completed his clinical fellowship in child
psychiatry at MGH and McLean hospitals in Boston and Belmont,
respectively. Dr. Prince is board-certified in general psychiatry and
child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Prince is also the recipient of
many awards and honors, including the distinction of Laughlin Fellow
for the American College of Psychiatrists. In 2005, Dr. Prince was
selected as one of the ‘Best Doctors in America.’ He is the author or
co-author of more than 60 original articles, abstracts, and book
chapters, and he has made more than 150 academic presentations
nationally and internationally.
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Charles Moore, MD
Boston South Regional Medical Co-Director
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Charles Moore, MD, received his medical degree from the
University of Kansas Medical School. He completed Triple Board combined
residency and fellowship in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child and
adolescent psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center (2000). He worked as
Medical Director of BEST (2000-2003) and assisted in establishing
Tufts-Floating Med-Psych Inpatient Unit (2000-2009). Began work with
MCPAP in 2005 as Medical Director of MCPAP Boston Tufts-Children’s
Team. While at Tufts extended medical education commitment as Associate
Child Psychiatry Residency Training Director. In 2009 became medical
director of the McLean-Southeast Region MCPAP and Mclean Southeast
Adolescent Services.
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Heather Walter, MD
Boston South Regional Medical Co-Director
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Dr. Walter is Medical Director for Behavioral Health,Pediatric
Physicians' Organization at Children's, and Medical Co-Director for the
Boston South Regional Team, MCPAP. She also is Senior Attending
Psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), where she leads
initiatives in pediatric integrated behavioral health care, and Senior
Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Walter previously
was Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry and
Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. She trained in
preventive medicine at UCLA Medical Center, in general psychiatry at
New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center, and in child and
adolescent psychiatry at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center/New York
State Psychiatric Institute. She also holds the Master of Public Health
degree in epidemiology from the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr.
Walter is board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, general
preventive medicine, and public health. Over her 30 year career, Dr.
Walter has been a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist, a
National Institutes of Health-funded researcher, and an educator of
medical students and trainees in psychiatry, psychology, social work,
and mental health
counseling. She has over 100 publications reporting the findings from
her research and disseminating knowledge about the practice of child
and adolescent psychiatry. She also has extensive experience in
administrative psychiatry, having served as Director of School
Psychiatry at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York,
Director of Psychiatry Outpatient Services at Children’s Memorial
Hospital in Chicago, Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston
Medical Center, and Vice-Chair of Psychiatry at Boston University
School of Medicine. For over a decade, she has served as Co-Chair of
the Committee on Quality Issues for the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), which under her leadership has published
25 national clinical practice guidelines for the practice of child and
adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Walter has been honored with the distinction
of Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine and
Distinguished Fellow of AACAP.