Mark G. Mishek has served as president and CEO of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation since 2008, a tenure defined by unprecedented innovation, collaboration and growth to address the complex and evolving challenges of addiction and mental health. Under Mishek's leadership, Hazelden Betty Ford has more than doubled the number of patients served annually to well over 25,000. The organization is now on its way to offering virtual care in all 50 states through its industry-leading RecoveryGo behavioral health services.
Trey Malicoat, MS, is an executive productivity coach, a clinical trauma therapist, author and professional speaker who specializes in working with organizations to help them create collaborative, productive and empowered teams. He engages audiences with powerful stories, practical tools and impactful social observations. Malicoat also maintains a private coaching practice for individuals who want to step out of limiting thoughts and behaviors, and learn to create lives of joy, peace and purpose.
With years of experience in both residential and outpatient treatment settings, Ahmed Eid, MA, LADC, serves as national director of Hazelden Betty Ford's Comprehensive Opioid Response with Twelve Steps (COR-12) Services, as well as director of Hazelden Betty Ford in Naples, Florida. Eid also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies. He has been instrumental in developing COR-12 services at multiple levels across Hazelden Betty Ford's national system of care.
Jesse Higgins, MSN, RN, PMHNP, is director of integrated behavioral health at Northern Light Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine. Higgins developed and directs a program of integration that leverages licensed clinical social workers and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners on-site and via telehealth in outpatient medical practices throughout the state of Maine. She is a national speaker on topics related to integrated behavioral health, shared decision making and strengthening medical practices as a trauma-informed access point for patients presenting with mental illness and substance use disorders.
As manager of addiction services, Malia Holbeck, CSW-PIP, LAC, oversees outpatient and inpatient chemical dependency programming at Avera in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she also serves on the organization's board of directors. Holbeck is licensed as a social worker and an addiction counselor. She has extensive experience working with populations ranging from adolescents to older adults.
Scott Palmer, MBA, is the executive director of strategic initiatives and process improvement at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. In this role, he helps the organization tackle complex strategic and operational challenges. Prior to joining Hazelden Betty Ford, Palmer served as the chief project and development officer for a university, as an executive director in a large acute care system and as a solider in the U.S. Army.
With extensive experience as an addiction counselor in a day treatment setting, Jennifer Nelson, MA, LADC, brings clinical and operational insight to her role as senior manager of virtual services for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. In this role, Nelson ensures fidelity of the clinical model, maintains proper clinical licensure in all relevant states of operation, is responsible for counselor recruitment and onboarding, and provides staff supervision.
Randi Tolliver, PhD, CADC, is a master trainer and supervisor of clinical trainers for Hazelden Betty Ford's professional education solutions division. With expertise in integrated care for substance use disorders and the complex co-occurring issues that accompany these diagnoses, Tolliver has led several large-scale assessment and training initiatives, and delivered on complex federal grant projects that involve many diverse stakeholders. Her perspective as an experienced clinical leader informs her success in guiding integrated systems change efforts, including frontline skills training.
As executive director of the Butler Center for Research, Quyen Ngo, PhD, leads research activities at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. She earned a doctorate in clinical psychology and women's studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship. Over the past eight years, she has conducted grant-funded research on the role of substance use in intimate partner violence and technology-enhanced brief interventions for substance use disorders.
Kate Gliske, PhD, is a research scientist with the Butler Center for Research, part of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. Gliske holds a master's in counseling psychology and a doctorate in family social science, where she was additionally trained as a prevention scientist. Her research interests include studying the benefits of preventive parenting programs for families undergoing stress, and the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based practices for addiction that target the entire family system.
Samantha Pauley, MA, LMFT, joined Hazelden Betty Ford in 2010 as a primary counselor in Newberg, Oregon, and then managed the partial hospitalization units for several years. As outpatient director for the Beaverton, Oregon, facility, Pauley grew the program to include integrated co-occurring treatment, medication-assisted services and virtual service delivery. Now the national director of virtual services, she is expanding on emerging best practices in virtual treatment.
As director of Hazelden Publishing's B2B segment management and marketing services, Mark Korf, BA, has nearly 30 years of professional experience in strategic planning, business development, product development, content marketing and e-commerce. He is recognized for creating, implementing and growing web-based initiatives from concept to market adoption.
Azfar M. Malik, MD, MBA, DFAPA, is board-certified in psychiatry and neurology, with secondary certification in both addiction and geriatric psychiatry. He is the chief medical officer at CenterPointe Hospital in St. Charles, Missouri. Dr. Malik also serves as the president and principal investigator of Psych Care Consultants, LLC. He is an assistant clinical professor in the psychiatry department at St. Louis University Health Science Center. Dr. Malik has been involved in multiple clinical research trials for psychiatric disorders.
Patrick McGinn, MA, MS, LLP, CAADC, was named chief executive officer for Harbor Hall, Inc. in 2016. He was initially hired to serve as clinical supervisor at Harbor Hall in 1999 after completing a 22-year enlistment in the United States Navy. McGinn has worked in the addiction and recovery field since 1986 including a variety of positions while on active duty in the Navy. He has provided clinical and/or supervisory services at the Naval Alcohol Rehabilitation Center in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; the Counseling and Assistance Center on the USS John F. Kennedy; the Alcohol Rehabilitation Department Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Illinois; and Addiction Associates in Libertyville, Illinois.
With years of experience as an addiction counselor, Peter Bucci, MA, LPC, ACS, CAADC, CSS, JSOTS, has worked through the full spectrum of clinical services—from in-home care to inpatient treatment to outpatient programming. He specializes in group counseling therapies and techniques for individuals with substance use disorders. Bucci has been with Harbor Hall since 2015 and has been serving as the clinical director of residential services since spring of 2018.
One of the nation's foremost addiction recovery advocates, William C. Moyers serves as vice president of public affairs and community relations for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. He has appeared on Good Morning America, National Public Radio and Oprah Winfrey. Moyers is the author of several books, including Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption, a New York Times best-selling memoir.
Psychiatrist, author and clinical innovator Marvin D. Seppala, MD, is the chief medical officer for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. A nationally regarded expert on addiction recovery, pharmacological treatments and integration of evidence-based practices, Dr. Seppala led Hazelden Betty Ford's development of what has become the field's leading treatment approach targeting opioid use disorder—Comprehensive Opioid Response with the Twelve Steps, COR-12.
Joseph A. Jaksha, JD, serves as a vice president and the publisher for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation where he is responsible for strategic planning, editorial, product development, sales and marketing, technology and business development for consumer and professional publishing, prevention and professional education and continuum solutions. These business and product lines provide a wide range of innovative, evidence-based media and services to help youth and adults recognize, understand and overcome substance misuse, addiction and related issues.
As medical director of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation's youth continuum, Joseph Lee, MD, brings unparalleled expertise and insight to his work with patients and families as well as his perspectives on emerging drug trends, co-occurring mental health conditions and the ever-changing culture of addiction. A triple-board certified physician, Dr. Lee is a diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine and is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Substance Abuse Committee.
John Driscoll, MBA, senior vice president of recovery services for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, is the board chair of the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. He has worked in the treatment field since 1991 as a licensed alcohol and drug counselor. Driscoll joined the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in 1999, serving as a counselor, manager, director and executive director before being named senior vice president in 2016.
As vice president of business development for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Bob Poznanovich manages the organization's strategic relations with health systems, employers, insurance and managed care organizations, professional referents and other national accounts. Recognizing a powerful opportunity for health care providers to work together in delivering comprehensive, coordinated care for patients with substance use disorders, Poznanovich was instrumental in developing the Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care Network.
Nick Motu is the vice president and chief external affairs officer for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. In this wide-ranging leadership role, Motu directs business development endeavors, steers advertising/public relations/communications activities, and drives the organization's public advocacy efforts supporting recovery-related issues and expanding access to treatment benefits.
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