Our Team
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.
Leadership
The following individuals provide leadership to the NIATx Foundation Board of Directors.
Todd Molfenter, Ph.D.
NIATx Foundation PresidentTodd 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 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..
Lynn Madden, Ph.D., MPA
NIATx Foundation Board of Directors PresidentLynn Madden, Ph.D., MPA, 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...
Dick Dillon
NIATx Foundation Board of Directors Vice President and TreasurerDick Dillon 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...
Board of Directors
The NIATx Foundation Board is made up of industry leaders in their respective fields.
Lisa Blanchard, MA, LHMC
NIATx Foundation Board MemberChief Clinical Officer, Spectrum Health Systems, Inc.
John Coppola, MSW
NIATx Foundation Board MemberRetired Executive Director, New York Association of Addiction Service Providers (ASAP)
Kana Enomoto, MA
NIATx Foundation Board MemberDirector of Brain Health, McKinsey Health Institute;
Partner, McKinsey & Company
David Gustafson, Ph.D.
NIATx Foundation Board MemberFounder and Director, Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS);
Emeritus Research Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Ed Kopetsky
NIATx Foundation Board MemberRetired Executive Vice President and CIO, Stanford Medicine Children's Health
Annie Peters, Ph.D., LP
NIATx Foundation Board MemberExecutive Director, NAATP Foundation for Recovery Science and Education (FoRSE)
Christopher Wilkins, Sr., MHA
NIATx Foundation Board MemberSr. Vice President for Operations, Mountain Lake Associates;
Strategic Consultant, Discovery Behavioral Health
Experience You Can Count On
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 systems of care emerge to serve patients and families.
Consultants bring experience from many fields, including:
· Social Work
· Clinical Services
· Quality Improvement
· Business Systems
· Process Improvement
· Implementation Science
· Engineering
· Healthcare Management
· State Government