CMHSR Faculty

CMHSR Staff Directory

Kathleen Biebel, Ph.D. is a Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry.

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8717
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Kathleen.Biebel@umassmed.edu 

Philip J. Candilis, MD. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 856-1473
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Philip.Candilis@umassmed.edu

Maryann Davis, Ph.D. is a Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8718
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Maryann.Davis@umassmed.edu 

Barry Feldman, Ph.D. is Director of Psychiatry Services in Public Safety and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the UMass Medical School.

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 856-2461
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Barry.Feldman@umassmed.edu

William H. Fisher, Ph.D.  is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry. He is also Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University Massachusetts School of Public Health in Amherst.

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8711
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Bill.Fisher@umassmed.edu 

Kenneth E. Fletcher, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, the Graduate School of Nursing and the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. 

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: 508-856-8630
Fax: 508-856-8700 
Email: Kenneth.Fletcher@umassmed.edu 

Lisa Fortuna, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Child and Adolescent Multicultural Health Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: 508-856-7842
Fax: 508-856-6426
Email: Lisa.Fortuna@umassmed.edu 

Carl E. Fulwiler, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Acting Director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. 

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: 508-856-8389
Fax: 508-856-8700
Email: Carl.Fulwiler@umassmed.edu

Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H. is a Professor of Psychiatry, Co-Director of the Policy Research Core at the CMHSR and a Director of Public Sector Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.  

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-6527
Fax: (508) 856-3270
Email: Jeffrey.Geller@umassmed.edu  

Thomas Grisso, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Psychology, and Director of the Law-Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-3625
Fax: (508) 856-6426
Email: Thomas.Grisso@umassmed.edu 

Albert J. Grudzinskas, Jr., J.D.  is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in Law and Assistant Coordinator of Law and Psychiatry for Legal Studies.  

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8719
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Al.Grudzinskas@umassmed.edu 

Laura S. Guy, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Center for Mental Health Services Research in the Departmentt of Psychiatry

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 368-3439
Email: Laura.Guy@umassmed.edu

Kim Larson, J.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Center for Mental Health Services Research

E-mail: Kim.Larson@umassmed.edu 

Charles W. Lidz Ph.D. is a Research Professor of Psychiatry at the Center for Mental Health Services Research.  

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8716
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Chuck.Lidz@umassmed.edu 

Colleen E. McKay, M.A., C.A.G.S. is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program for Clubhouse Research.

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8471
Fax:(508) 856-8700
Email: Colleen.McKay@umassmed.edu 

Joanne Nicholson, Ph.D.  is a clinical and research psychologist, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research, and Director of the Child and Family Research Core.

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8712
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Joanne.Nicholson@umassmed.edu 

Rosalie Torres Stone, Ph.D  is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Multicultural Core at the Center for Mental Services Research.    

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 856-8692
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Rosalie.Torresstone@umassmed.edu 

Gina M. Vincent, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of Translational Law & Psychiatry Research.  

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 856-8727
Fax: (508) 856-6805
Email: Gina.Vincent@umassmed.edu 

Valerie F. Williams, M.A., M.S.  is a Research Instructor of Psychiatry.   

Curriculum Vitae 
Phone: (508) 856-8081
Fax: (508) 856-8700
Email: Valerie.Williams@umassmed.edu 

Douglas M. Ziedonis, MD, MPH., is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and UMass Memorial Medical Center. Dr. Ziedonis is an internationally recognized leader in co-occurring mental illness and addiction, in particular tobacco dependence.  He has served as an advisor to President Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a Senior Fellow for SAMHSA’s Co-Occurring Disorders Center for Excellence, and on various NIDA/NIMH study sections and advisory groups on addiction and mental illness.

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Faculty

Kenneth L. Appelbaum, MD. is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Director of Mental Health Policy and Research for the UMass Center for Health Policy and Research.

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 475-3236
Fax: (508) 856-8435
Email: Kenneth.Appelbaum@umassmed.edu

Jonathan Delman, J.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. (cand.) is the Associate Director of Participatory Action Research for the Learning and Working during the Transition to Adulthood Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RTC).

Marsha Langer Ellison, Ph.D., M.S.W. is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate Director of Knowledge Translation for the Learning and Working During the Transition to Adulthood Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RTC).

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 856-1531
Email: Marsha.Ellison@umassmed.edu

Stephanie Hartwell, Ph.D is the Director of the Graduate Program in Applied Sociology at UMass Boston and an Adjunct Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychiatry of UMass Medical School. Her research interests include the community reintegration of mentally ill offenders, institutional and public policy responses to social problems, mental health services research, and social justice, more specifically, multiproblemmed populations and community reentry post institutionalization. 

Email Stephanie.Hartwell@umb.edu

Alexis D. Henry, Sc.D., OTR/L  is a Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Her research interests include person- and environment-level factors related to employment success among persons with serious mental illness, the rehabilitation needs of parents with mental illness, the role of play and leisure across the life-span, and the use of participatory action approaches to research and service development.

Email: Alexis.Henry@umassmed.edu 

Sun Kim, Ph.D, RN is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Graduate School of Nursing.

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 856-6384
Fax: (508) 856-6426
E-mail: Sun.Kim@umassmed.edu

Ira K. Packer, Ph.D. is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 856-8437
Fax: (508) 856-6805
Email: Ira.Packer@umassmed.edu

David Smelson, Psy.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair of Clinical Research in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Curriculum Vitae
Phone: (508) 713-5420
Fax: (508) 856-8376
Email: David.Smelson@umassmed.edu

Steven M. Banks, Ph.D. was an Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Dr Banks passed away on August 10, 2007. Steve's unique contribution to the field of health services research, to UMMS, and to researchers, providers, and consumer/survivor/recovering persons across the country is without equal. His influence, as a professional colleague and great friend, is extraordinary, and will continue to guide us in our work and in our daily lives.