Psychiatry - National Council

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Expertise: Child/Adolescent Dr. Bhagi Sahasranaman, MD, is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a [...] Read More

Expertise: Child/Adolescent

Dr. Bhagi Sahasranaman, MD, is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Sahasranaman was at Henderson Behavioral Health, a large behavioral health organization in South Florida since 1991 where she was medical director for over seventeen years. She is currently medical director at Sunshine Health Plan, a subsidiary of Centene Corporation. Sunshine Health operates the Child Welfare Specialty Plan (CWSP) through a contract with the Agency for HealthCare Administration (AHCA), which provides personalized healthcare for children in Florida’s child welfare system. She is also the consultant child psychiatrist for several agencies serving children.

Dr. Sahasranaman has served on various committees and panels at the district and state levels. She has been a member of the expert panel for the “Florida Medicaid Drug Therapy Management Program for Behavioral Health” for several years, which has developed best practice medication guidelines for treatment of various behavioral health conditions in children and adults. She is a member of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, Medical Director’s Institute. Dr. Sahasranaman has provided numerous presentations, workshops, and trainings and has received several awards and recognitions. She was Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine and on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry, Florida International University College of Medicine.

J. Craig Allen, MD

Medical Director

J. Craig Allen, MD

Meriden, Conn.

Expertise: Child/Adolescent, Addictions, Community Mental Health Dr. Allen serves as medical director for Rushford/Hartford Healthcare. He received [...] Read More

Expertise: Child/Adolescent, Addictions, Community Mental Health

Dr. Allen serves as medical director for Rushford/Hartford Healthcare. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit Michigan in 1989. He did his internship and General Psychiatry residency at the Tufts University Medical School / New England Medical Center and his Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training at Harvard University Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital program. Dr. Allen served as Medical Director of Psychiatric and Family Services at Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Brighton, Mass from 1995 until 2003 when he moved to Connecticut to take the position of Unit Chief at Riverview Hospital for Children and Youth in Middletown, Conn. Dr. Allen has served as Medical Director at Rushford since 2005. Dr. Allen has held the title of Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School (1994–2003) and at Yale University Medical School (2003–2005). Currently Dr. Allen trains Residents from the Institute of Living in Addiction Psychiatry. Dr. Allen was seated on the SAMHSA Pharmacotherapy Expert Consensus Panel which developed Pharmacotherapy Principles for individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders published in 2012. Dr. Allen is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General and Adult Psychiatry and is ABPN certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as being certified in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM).

Brian Allender, MD

Auburn, Wash.

Expertise: Evidence Based Psychotherapies, Personality Disorders, Primary Care Integration, Trauma Dr. Allender completed his residency in Psychiatry [...] Read More

Expertise: Evidence Based Psychotherapies, Personality Disorders, Primary Care Integration, Trauma

Dr. Allender completed his residency in Psychiatry at the University of Washington in 2007, where he developed his passion for community behavioral health care and the need to move Evidence Based Practices into real world settings. After residency, he started work as a community psychiatrist at Valley Cities Behavioral Health Care. He became the Chief Medical Officer at Valley Cities in 2012. Since then he has spearheaded efforts to integrate behavioral health treatment with primary care partners and to provide Evidence Based Practices focused on treating trauma, psychosis, and substance use disorders.

Sara Coffey, DO

Tulsa, Okla.

Expertise: Child/Adolescent, Consultation to Schools, Psychiatry Dr. Sara Coffey is assistant professor and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry [...] Read More

Expertise: Child/Adolescent, Consultation to Schools, Psychiatry

Dr. Sara Coffey is assistant professor and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. Additionally, Dr. Coffey is the behavioral health director of the OSU Health Access Network. Dr. Coffey’s professional interests include integrated care with pediatricians and consultative work with community partners including the Department of Mental Health, the Oklahoma Health Care Authority and the Public-School System. Dr. Coffey is board-certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.

Marc Fishman, MD

Medical Director

Marc Fishman, MD

Rockville, Md.

Expertise: Child/Adolescent, Addictions Dr. Fishman is an addiction psychiatrist and a member of the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and [...] Read More

Expertise: Child/Adolescent, Addictions

Dr. Fishman is an addiction psychiatrist and a member of the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the Medical Director of Maryland Treatment Centers, a regional behavioral healthcare provider, which offers programs for residential and outpatient treatment of drug-involved and dual-diagnosis adolescents and adults. Dr. Fishman is a national expert on adolescent addiction treatment and program development. His academic work has focused on models of care and treatment outcomes for addictions in youth, in particular opioid dependence.

Ed Gentile, DO

Tucson, Ariz.

Expertise: General Adult Psychiatry, Managed Care [...] Read More

Expertise: General Adult Psychiatry, Managed Care

Jeffrey Lieberman, MD

New York, N.Y.

Expertise: Psychotic and Mood Disorders, Psychopharmacology, Interventions and Biomakers Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D. is the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor [...] Read More

Expertise: Psychotic and Mood Disorders, Psychopharmacology, Interventions and Biomakers

Jeffrey A. Lieberman, M.D. is the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University Medical Center. His career has focused on research and clinical care of people with severe mental illness including psychotic and mood disorders. He has authored or co-authored over 600 articles published in scientific literature and wrote or edited 11 books on mental illness, psychopharmacology and psychiatry. He is the recipient of many national and international honors and awards, and in 2000 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine.

More recently, Dr. Lieberman’s work has extended into public policy and advocacy for enhancing awareness of mental illness and improving mental health care, as well as diminishing stigma. During his term as President of the American Psychiatric Association in 2013-2014, Dr. Lieberman actively contributed to government policy and legislation including the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, and was a visible spokesperson to the media on mental illness and psychiatry. This motivated him to write the critically acclaimed book Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry for general audiences. He has also written numerous articles for the print and electronic media in addition to appearing on broadcast news programs and TED-like talks on stigma and mental illness.

Anthony Ng, MD

Bangor, Maine

Expertise: Disaster Psychiatry, Emergency Psychiatry, Community Mental Health, Rural Psychiatry, Organizational Psychiatry, Integrated Care, [...] Read More

Expertise: Disaster Psychiatry, Emergency Psychiatry, Community Mental Health, Rural Psychiatry, Organizational Psychiatry, Integrated Care, Telepsychiatry, Veterans Issues

Dr. Ng is a board-certified psychiatrist and is the chief medical officer at Acadia Hospital and Chief of Psychiatry at Eastern Maine Medical Center. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of Health.

He is a past President of the American Association of Emergency Psychiatry as well as being a member of the board of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. He has a lengthy history of involvement and advocacy in community mental health issues. He has extensive experience in the area of primary care and mental health, cross cultural issues, community system issues, substance abuse and homeless issues. He is also involved in community mental health, emergency psychiatry and disaster mental health. He was the former chairperson for the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) Multicultural Advisory Committee, which advised the Commissioner of Mental Health on issues of cultural competency within the OMH system.

Dr. Ng completed his psychiatry residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital and an additional year of training as a Public Psychiatry Fellow at Columbia/Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Ng was the director of the Primary Care Consultation-Liaison Service at Gouverneur Hospital in New York City and later, one of the associate medical directors of Project Renewal, Inc, a non-profit agency that works with the homeless with mental illness and substance abuse in New York City. Dr. Ng had also worked with Project HELP, a homeless outreach team in New York City.

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