2018 Speakers

Steven A. Cohen

Chairman and CEO
Point72 Asset Management

Steven A. Cohen is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Point72 Asset Management, a 1,000-person family office managing the assets of Mr. Cohen and certain eligible employees. Mr. Cohen founded S.A.C. Capital Advisors in 1992 and converted his investment operations to the Point72 Asset Management family office in 2014. An avid philanthropist and entrepreneur, Mr. Cohen has founded and holds active leadership roles in a number of nonprofit organizations.

Mr. Cohen is the Co-Chair and Founder of the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation. Started in 2001 by Mr. Cohen and his wife Alexandra, the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation is committed to achieving lasting and meaningful change through commitments to children’s health, education, veterans, and the arts. A longtime advocate for veterans with a particular interest in veterans’ mental health issues, Mr. Cohen co-founded Cohen Veterans Network and Cohen Veterans Bioscience in 2015 to improve the mental healthcare, treatment, and quality of life for recently-returned veterans and their families. He sits on the Board of Cohen Veterans Network.

Mr. Cohen also serves on the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles and the Emeritus Board of the Robin Hood Foundation. Mr. Cohen received a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his investing career at Gruntal & Co., where he managed proprietary capital for 14 years before starting his own investment business.

Magali Haas, MD, PhD

CEO and President
Cohen Veterans Bioscience

Dr. Haas is Chair, CEO and President of Cohen Veterans Bioscience, a non-profit brain research organization based in New York City whose mission is to fast-track diagnostics and therapeutics to advance precision brain health. Magali has over 15 years of pharmaceutical executive experience, predominantly at Johnson & Johnson, where she assumed broad end-to-end development leadership roles in early & late stage neuroscience clinical development, translational medicine, diagnostics and integrative solutions. To pioneer new approaches for precision therapeutics for brain health, she founded Orion Bionetworks in 2012, which was transformed to Cohen Veterans Bioscience in 2015, while also serving as founding Chief Science and Technology Officer for One Mind for Research. She serves on several advisory boards including Alto Neurosciences, Partnership for Assessment and Accreditation of Scientific Practice, VirtualBrainCloud, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics and IMEC for nanoelectronics.  Magali earned her BS in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in biomedical engineering from Rutgers University, and her MD and PhD in neuroscience with distinction from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Anthony Hassan, EdD, LCSW

CEO and President
Cohen Veterans Network

As the CEO and President of the Cohen Veterans Network, Dr. Anthony M. Hassan oversees the establishment of 25 mental health clinics nationwide. These clinics are designed to improve the mental health outcomes for post-9/11 veterans and their families, with a particular emphasis on post-traumatic stress, through high-quality, free, and accessible mental health care. In addition, he leads efforts to advance the field through funded research initiatives and training programs to improve care within the network and beyond.

Hassan is a veteran, of enlisted rank in the United States Army and an Air Force officer, with 30 years of experience in military behavioral health, serving as a military social work officer, leader, clinician, and academic. He served during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 on the first-ever Air Force combat stress control and prevention team embedded with the Army. He also led the largest military substance abuse and family advocacy programs in the Pacific. These programs were recognized as benchmark programs and training sites for all other Pacific bases.

He most recently served as the inaugural Director and Clinical Professor of the Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families (CIR) at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. During his tenure at CIR from 2009 to 2015, Hassan was instrumental in the exponential growth of the school’s military social work program and community-based research on veterans and military families. He has strong relationships with the most senior levels of leadership in the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and Washington, D.C.

Ardy Arianpour, MBA

CEO & Co-Founder
Seqster

Ardy Arianpour is CEO & Co-Founder of Seqster, the first consumer driven healthcare data management platform that enables individuals to aggregate their EHR, genomics and fitness data in one place and share with their family creating a multi-generational health record. Ardy is a visionary genomics executive and serial entrepreneur in the biotech industry. Prior to starting Seqster, Ardy launched several clinical and consumer-based genetic tests as CCO of Pathway Genomics, and SVP of Ambry Genetics that sold to Konica for $1B in 2017. He is one of the main architects in launching the first commercial clinical exome sequencing test in 2011, establishing the value of next-gen sequencing in the clinic. As a key player in the 2013 landmark SCOTUS decision scrapping gene patents, Ardy played an instrumental role in expanding genetic testing access with the launch of BRCA testing benefiting patients and family members across the country.

Ardy received his BS in Biological Sciences from UC Irvine and an MBA from Marshall Goldsmith School of Management.

Rinad S. Beidas, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Director, Implementation Science Working Group
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Director, Implementation Research
Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research

Dr. Beidas’s research group has two primary foci: (1) improving behavioral health and the quality of behavioral health services for traditionally underserved patients; and (2) advancing the study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice to improve the quality and effectiveness of health services (i.e., implementation science). Dr. Beidas is an established expert in implementation science; a recent social network analysis conducted by Norton and colleagues identified her as among the top 10 implementation science experts nationally. Dr. Beidas has published approximately 100 articles and is the co-editor of the only book published on EBPs in youth, Dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices in child and adolescent mental health. Dr. Beidas’s work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health continuously since 2012. Dr. Beidas is deeply committed to partnering with community stakeholders to understand the best way to implement evidence-based practices and improve behavioral health and health services across a variety of settings including community mental health, pediatric primary care, and schools. Further, Dr. Beidas and her group are invested in building capacity in implementation science and growing the next generation of implementation science investigators.

Dr. Beidas holds a bachelor of arts in psychology from Colgate University and a doctorate of philosophy in psychology from Temple University. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of Pennsylvania. Dr. Beidas is a senior fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute and directs the Leonard Davis Institute’s Implementation Science Working Group. She is also an alumnus fellow of the NIH funded Training Institute in Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH), Implementation Research Institute (IRI), and the Child Intervention and Prevention Services (CHIPS) Fellowship. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the ABCT President’s New Researcher Award in 2015; the American Psychological Foundation Diane J. Willis Early Career Award; and the Perelman School of Medicine Marjorie Bowman New Investigator Research Award in 2017.  

Aaditya Bhat

Data Scientist
Cohen Veterans Network

Carl Castro, PhD

Director
Center for Innovation and Research on Veterans & Military Families

Associate Professor
University of Southern California, Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work

Abhishek Chandra

Co-Founder & CTO
Spring Health

Adam Chekroud, PhD

Co-Founder
Spring Health

Adam is co-founder of a mental health startup called Spring Health, based in New York City. Spring works with large employers like GAP and Whole Foods to provide their employees with free and immediate access to high-quality mental healthcare. The company has raised over $8M and has over 600 providers in its network. He is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. His research seeks to improve treatment outcomes in mental health, particularly depression, by using large existing datasets to anticipate barriers to treatment and likely illness course. His research has been featured in JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, and PNAS, and covered in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, BBC, and CNN.

Keith Fisher, MD

Medical Director
Humana Military

Dr. Keith Fisher holds the position of Medical Director at Humana Military. In this capacity, he serves the 6 million TRICARE East beneficiaries through the management of the TRICARE contract.

As a Medical Director at Humana Military, Keith supports innovation, data management, data analysis, quality, and healthcare delivery in the Integrated Medical and Behavioral Health space.

Keith earned his Medical Degree from the Drexel College of Medicine and is currently enrolled at Dartmouth College where he studies Healthcare Delivery Science. Keith holds Board Certifications in Adult Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine.

Keith resides in the Hill Country of South Texas where he and his wife are the proud parents of two children.

Dr. Tom Foley

Senior Clinical Lead for Data
NHS Digital

PI, Learning Healthcare Project
Newcastle University

Tom is a psychiatrist, academic and clinical informatician. His interest in Learning Healthcare Systems stems from a frustration with the inadequate evidence base that he encounters in his clinical work and the apparent inability of traditional methodologies to bridge the gap. In recent years, Tom conducted reviews on healthcare policy issues for the Health Foundation, Health Education England, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Centre for Mental Health, NHS England, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and others.

He has held management positions with the Care Quality Commission and Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and committee and associate positions with Monitor, British Medical Association and General Medical Council. He has also worked as a management consultant for PwC and BDO. Tom is currently the Senior Clinical Lead for Data at NHS Digital, the organisation that collects, analyses and distributes data for the English National Health System. He is also a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Clinical Informatics.

Lara Gregorio, LSCW

Head of Health Systems
7 Cups

Lara Gregorio is the Head of Health Systems at 7 Cups, a web and mobile peer to peer emotional support platform. 7 Cups is the world’s largest mental health system with 270,000 listeners in 189 countries, providing support in 140 languages to millions of people a month. The 7 Cups platform is also used by organizations to extend support to their members. For example, MIT uses 7 Cups to provide student to student support, NAMI utilizes 7 Cups to extend support to caregivers and Northwell uses 7 Cups to conduct research on how to better support new mothers and patients struggling with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. 7 Cups was the recipient of the Stanford MedX prize for Health Care Systems Design.

Lara obtained her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 2005, and worked in a variety of clinical settings, from inpatient psychiatric facilities to homeless outreach to private practice, and then in legislative policy roles prior to joining 7 Cups in January 2016.

Damian Mingle

Chief Data Scientist
Raiven Healthcare

Monica E. Oss

Chief Executive Officer
OPEN MINDS

Rajeev Ramchand, PhD

Senior Vice President – Research
Cohen Veterans Network

Rajeev Ramchand is Senior Vice President-Research at the Cohen Veterans Network (CVN). In this role, he is responsible for designing and guiding CVN’s research agenda and for conducting research within the network. 

He comes to CVN after working for 12 years as a behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. At RAND, he conducted research on an array of topics including military and veteran mental health, military and veteran caregivers, adolescent delinquency, the impact of disasters on community health, and violent extremism. He has also conducted many studies on suicide and suicide prevention in military, veteran, and civilian populations. This includes epidemiologic studies on risk factors for suicide, evaluations of suicide prevention programs, environmental scans of suicide prevention programs, and has developed tools to help organizations to evaluate their own programs.

Dr. Ramchand has authored nearly 100 peer-reviewed publications. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Justice, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and private foundations. He has been interviewed by and published op-eds in various media outlets, and has provided expert testimony before the United States Congress and California State Senate.

Dr. Ramchand received his B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in psychiatric epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Linda Rosenberg, MSW

President & CEO
National Council for Behavioral Health

Linda Rosenberg is President and CEO of the National Council for
Behavioral Health. Under her leadership the National Council has become the nation’s largest mental health and addiction education and advocacy association with 2900 government and not-for-profit member organizations serving 10 million Americans.

The National Council helped secure passage of the federal parity law and the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA); advanced the integration of behavioral health and primary care, leading to the creation of a Medicaid Health Home option; ensured passage of the Excellence in Mental Health Act; and introduced Mental Health First Aid in the U.S.A.

Prior to joining the National Council, Linda was New York State’s Senior Deputy Commission for Mental Health where she opened New York’s first Mental Health Court; implemented NY’s assisted outpatient program, Kendra’s Law; designed services and housing for the homeless; and developed and operated a Home and Community Waiver Programs for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families.

Linda also serves as a Cohen Veterans Network board member.

Agnes Rupp, PhD

Health Economist
National Institute of Mental Health/NIH

Agnes Rupp, Ph.D., joined the National Institute of Mental Health/NIH to serve as Chief of the Financing and Managed Care Research Program, an extramural grant program established in response to President Carter’s Commission on Mental Health. Since 2006 she has also overseen the Methodological Research Program in the Division of Services and Intervention Research. As Senior Research Economist, she holds a leadership role for advancing scientific knowledge to improve financing, including insurance parity, for mental health services in public and commercial health plans. Currently she is involved in research projects as the Science Officer of the NIMH-supported Mental Health Research Network. Before joining NIMH she conducted post-doctoral studies at CUNY Graduate Center in health economics and was an investigator at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her publications focus primarily on hospital payment methods for mental disorders and economic analysis of clinical trials. She is co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics and honorary member of the World Psychiatric Association.

Leo Shane III

Deputy Editor
Military Times

Leo Shane III is an award-winning military and veterans affairs reporter has worked in Washington, D.C. since 2004. His beats include Capitol Hill, the White House and the Department of Veterans Affairs. His work also includes overseas coverage of military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Chile and Ecuador.

In 2010, Shane was part of a team of reporters who received a Polk Award and a National Headliner Award for stories that revealed the military’s practice of profiling journalists in Afghanistan in an attempt to steer coverage of the war. Prior to his national work, Shane covered state and local politics for newspapers in Ohio, Illinois and Philadelphia. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.

Crystal Shelton, MSSW, LCSW

Senior Vice President, Clinical Programs
Cohen Veterans Network

Jay H. Shore, MD, MPH

Medical Director
Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Michael C. Sullivan

Chief of Staff, Head of External Affairs
Point72 Asset Management

Michael C. Sullivan is the Chief of Staff and Head of External Affairs of Point72 Asset Management. Mr. Sullivan joined the Firm in 2007 after serving as a senior aide in the United States Senate, focusing on telecom, technology, and finance issues. Mr. Sullivan also served as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives working on similar issues. Before coming to Capitol Hill, Mr. Sullivan was the head of strategic development for a telecommunications focused trade association.

Mr. Sullivan is involved with several veterans’ mental health-related non-profit organizations. He helped establish and serves on the Board and as Treasurer of the Cohen Veterans Network, which operates a national network of clinics to treat veterans and their family members affected by Post-Traumatic Stress. Mr. Sullivan also serves as the Treasurer and on the Board of a second veterans-oriented non-profit, Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is developing next-generation diagnostics and therapeutics to improve the detection and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress.

Mr. Sullivan is an Associate at the NYU-Stern Endless Frontier Labs, where he mentors start-up companies in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and related fields. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of Students First New York, a nonprofit organization advocating for educational reform in New York State. Mr. Sullivan is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.

Terri Tanielian, MA

Senior Behavioral Scientist
RAND Corporation

Terri Tanielian is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. Tanielian is a nationally recognized expert in military and veteran’s health policy. Her research interests include access to and quality of care for service-connected health problems, particularly mental health problems; military suicide; military sexual assault; military families; veteran caregivers; and psychological and behavioral effects of combat, terrorism, and disasters. She employs both quantitative and qualitative research methods and analyses in her work, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and analysis of administrative data; as well as environmental scans of existing policies, programs and services.   She formerly directed RAND’s Center for Military Health Policy Research, overseeing RAND’s diverse military health research portfolio. In this role, she was interacted regularly with senior military health officials to identify and develop policy relevant studies and advise on the use of findings to improve decisionmaking. Tanielian was co–study director for RAND’s seminal study Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008: RAND), the first non-governmental assessment of the psychological, emotional, and cognitive consequences of deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan. She won the AcademyHealth Impact Award for this work in 2011. She was also the principal investigator for RAND’s comprehensive study of military and veteran caregivers titled Hidden Heroes: America’s Military Caregivers.  She led the first ever prospective longitudinal study of military families across the deployment cycle, the Deployment Life Study. She has conducted several needs assessments examining the challenges and issues facing veterans living in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, Massachusetts and in New York State. Her studies have also examined the readiness of private sector health providers to deliver high quality care to veterans. She also led a study examining community based models for expanding mental health care for returning veterans and their families under the Welcome Back Veterans Initiative, as well as a consensus building effort to design a Blueprint for Future Research on Veteran Caregiving.  Tanielian has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She has served on many advisory committees and expert panels related to veteran mental health policy, public health preparedness, and homeland security.  Tanielian has a M.A. in psychology from the American University.

Caitlin Thompson, PhD

Vice President, Community Partnerships
Cohen Veterans Network

Sergeant Kyle White

Medal of Honor Recipient
United States Army

Spokesperson
Cohen Veterans Network

Sgt. Kyle Jerome White joined the Army in 2006, from Washington State. He attended basic training, advanced individual training, and U.S. Army Airborne School consecutively, at Fort Benning, Ga., before being assigned to the 2-503rd, at Camp Ederle, Italy, from 2006 to 2008. While assigned to the 2-503rd, White deployed to Aranas, Afghanistan, in spring 2007, where he served as a platoon radio telephone operator. He was assigned to the 4th Ranger Training Battalion, at Fort Benning, from 2008 to 2010. White departed the active-duty Army in May 2011.

His civilian education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he majored in finance. He currently resides in Charlotte, where he is a Vice President at Merrill Lynch.

His military education includes the Combat Life Saver Course, U.S. Army Airborne School, U.S. Army Air Assault School, the Infantryman Course (One-Station Unit Training), the Primary Leadership Development Course, and the Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course.

White received the Medal of Honor during a May 13, 2014 ceremony at the White House. He became the seventh living recipient of the nation’s highest military decoration for conspicuous gallantry and valor during actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.

White received the Medal of Honor for his disregard of his own life while trying to save the lives of a Marine and two fellow Soldiers after his team of 14 U.S. Soldiers and squad of Afghan National Army soldiers were set up and ambushed by a much larger and more heavily armed Taliban force, who engaged in a three-prong attack from elevated ground.

White’s other awards and decorations include the Purple Heart, the Army Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster and “V” device, the Army Achievement Medal with 1 oak leaf cluster, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with one campaign star, the Global War on Terrorism Medal, the Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, the Army Service Ribbon, the Overseas Service Ribbon with numeral 2 device, the NATO Medal, the Combat Infantry Badge, the Parachutists Badge, the Air Assault Badge, the Presidential Unit Citation, and the Valorous Unit Award.

Admiral James A. “Sandy” Winnefeld, Jr.

Admiral
U.S. Navy (Retired)

Co-Founder
S.A.F.E. Project

Mary A. Winnefeld

Co-Founder
S.A.F.E. Project

Paul J. Wood

Chief External Affairs Officer
Cohen Veterans Network