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.
NIATx Foundation President Todd Molfenter, Ph.D.
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 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...
Board of Directors
The NIATx Foundation is led by industry leaders in their respective fields.
Lisa Blanchard, MA, LHMC
NIATx Foundation Board MemberChief Clinical Officer, Spectrum Health Systems, Inc.
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
Thomas Kunes, P.E.
NIATx Foundation Board MemberFounding Principal, Kestrel Tellevate LLC;
Professor of Practice, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Lynn Madden, Ph.D., MPA
NIATx Foundation Board MemberPresident & Chief Executive Office, APT Foundation;
Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Internal Medicine-AIDS at Yale School of Medicine
Annie Peters, Ph.D., LP
NIATx Foundation Board MemberExecutive Director, NAATP Foundation for Recovery Science and Education (FoRSE)
Michael Reagan, MA
NIATx Foundation Board MemberChief External Relations Officer, Cherry Health;
Adjunct Faculty, Western Michigan University and Grand Valley State University
Arthur Schut, MA
NIATx Foundation Board MemberIndependent Consultant, Arthur Schut Consulting
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