Affiliate Faculty of the CMHRR
Sandy Bailey, PhD, CFLE
Professor & Family & Human Development Specialist
Extension FCS State Program Leader, Montana State University
Research Interests
Dr. Bailey is a nationally recognized Professor and Extension Specialist in Family
and Human Development with MSU Extension. She brings over 15 years of experience working
with Extension and outreach on issues related to children and families. She focuses
on parenting in nontraditional family structures, family interactions, and individual
and family stress. Recently, the MSU Family and Human Development Extension, led by
Dr. Bailey, joined with the MSU CMHRR to implement extensive mental health literacy
and suicide prevention programming throughout Montana. MSU Extension has more than
100 years of history working with individuals and families in 56 counties across Montana.
MSU Extension Agents and Specialists continually plan programming based on the emerging
needs of constituents. Mental health and suicide has become an issue that is of utmost
concern across the state. Improved mental health knowledge will allow Extension faculty
to more effectively engage stakeholders and residents about mental health issues.
Website
http://www.montana.edu/hhd/facultyandstaff/sbailey.html
Soo Borson, MD
Professor Emerita, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of
Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN
Affiliate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State University
Research Interests
Dr. Borson’s long-term career interests have centered on complex patients in complex
clinical situations: her early work aimed to narrow the divide between medical and
psychiatric conditions and care, in studies of depression in chronically ill older
adults and mental health services in long term care settings. Her later work extended
this thinking to dementia and caregiving, with studies of dementia multi-morbidity
and potentially preventable hospitalizations, invention of new translational measurement
tools, and development of a systematic framework for delivering proactive, high-quality,
long-term, comprehensive ambulatory dementia care that integrates cognitive, functional,
behavioral, medical, and caregiving domains. She has published over 100 refereed
manuscripts, is a past President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry,
and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the Gerontological
Society of America. She is internationally known for the Mini-Cog, a brief screening
tool for cognitive impairment shown to predict several important health care outcomes.
Lastly, she has mentored many emerging clinicians and researchers and been a key contributor
to national and international working groups focused on improving care of patients
with dementia. Her overarching interests continue to be in improving health care
and outcomes for people living with dementia and those who care for them.
Websites
http://apps.uwmedicine.org/uwpsychiatry/ResultsDetail.aspx?EmployeeID=741000063
http://mini-cog.com/about/instrument-development/
John Greist, MD
Professor of Psychiatry - Emeritus, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and
Public Health, Madison, WI
Distinguished Senior Scientist, Madison Institute of Medicine, Madison, WI
CEO, Healthcare Technology Systems, Madison, WI
Affiliate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State University
Research Interests
Dr. Greist, a clinical research psychiatrist, has spent decades at the forefront
of research studying anxiety and mood disorders, psychopharmacology, behavior therapy,
and clinical applications of computing. He is a Co-Founder of Epic Systems, the most
widely used electronic health record system in the USA, and the Lithium, Bipolar,
and Obsessive Compulsive Information Centers, computer-based psychiatric information
systems for care providers and patients. In addition to more than 300 articles in
professional journals and book chapters, he has co-authored books such as the Lithium
Encyclopedia for Clinical Practice, Depression and Its Treatment, and a variety of
patient booklets in the Madison Institute of Medicine's Guide Series. His research
interests continue to be providing state-of-the-art computer-based assessments and
therapies for mental illnesses, consulting in his areas of expertise, and advancing
access to mental health information to patients and their families.
Contact
jgreist@healthtechsys.com
Frances Lefcort, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Montana State University
Research Interests
Dr. Lefcort is working to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that drive
the formation of the nervous system, and how disruptions in these pathways can lead
to neural developmental disorders. The major focus of her group's work is the human
hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy disorder, Familial Dysautonomia (FD),
using various models. FD is a fatal, developmental and progressive neurogenetic disorder
and affects both the central and peripheral nervous systems. Their goal is to determine
the function of the gene Ikbkap, which is mutated in the human disorder, and to identify potential therapeutics to
treat the progressive visual impairment in FD.
Website
http://www.montana.edu/cbn/faculty-staff/lefcort.html
Mark Schure, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Human Development, Montana State University
Research Interests
Dr. Schure is engaged in developing and promoting mental health interventions tailored
to meet the needs of rural communities and populations at-risk for poor mental health
outcomes. He specializes in community-based research and has worked in several Montana
and Oregon rural communities for over a decade. Currently, he is conducting research
on the effects of a digital cognitive behavior therapy program for rural Montanans.
He is also developing and testing a specialized chronic illness management program
that addresses mental health issues related to historical trauma among the Apsaalooke
nation in Montana.
Website
http://www.montana.edu/hhd/facultyandstaff/mschure.html