As a senior member of the CiMH staff, Dr. Adams is responsible for a wide range of projects focused on quality improvement and systems transformation through technical assistance, consultation, training and research. Primary projects include consultation with the County of Santa Cruz, leadership in several evidence based practice initiatives, as well as the implementation of the Mental Health Services Act. Dr. Adams received his Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, his MD from Northwestern University and his MPH from Harvard. He completed his psychiatry residency at Stanford where he also served for two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Adams is a Distinguished Fellow of the APA, is board certified in general psychiatry, and holds sub-specialty certification in addiction psychiatry.

Joan Bloom is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She received her BS from the University of California, Berkeley and a MA in Sociology and PhD in Sociology of Education from Stanford University. Her research interests include: Assessing the effect of organizational arrangements (structures and process) on the adoption of new services and other organizational innovations and psycho-social interventions to prevent, encourage early diagnosis, and improve the quality of lives of individuals at risk for or with chronic disease (e.g. cancer, diabetes, cardiac disease, and chronic mental illness). Current projects include notification of persons at high risk for prostate and breast cancer; ten year follow-up of young breast cancer survivors, a physical activity intervention to prevent osteoporosis and weight gain in breast cancer survivors, the utilization, cost, and outcomes of capitating mental health services for medicaid recipients.

Stephen Hinshaw is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his A.B. from Harvard in 1974, summa cum laude, and then directed day school and residential programs for children with developmental disabilities for three years. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from UCLA in 1983, receiving the campus-wide Distinguished Scholar Award. He was an intern at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute from 1981-2 and a post-doctoral fellow at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute of the University of California, San Francisco, from 1983-5, where he received the R. Harris Award. He taught in the Psychology Department at UCLA from 1986-1990 and joined the Berkeley faculty in 1990. His work focuses on developmental psychopathology, with particular emphasis on peer and family relationships, neuropsychological and neural risk factors, assessment and evaluation, pharmacologic and psychological interventions, conceptual and definitional issues, and stigma and mental disorder. He has directed summer research camps for boys (and, recently, for girls) with ADHD and associated disorders for 20 years. Hinshaw has authored over 150 articles, chapters, and reviews on child psychopathology. His book, Attention Deficits and Hyperactivity in Children, was published by Sage Publications in 1994; The Years of Silence are Past: My Father's Life with Bipolar Disorder, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2002; The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change will be published in 2006 by Oxford University Press. The recipient of numerous research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, he Associate Editor of the journal Development and Psychopathology and is on the editorial board of seven other journals. He is past president of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and Division 53 of the American Psychological Association (Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the American Psychological Association. Hinshaw received the Distinguished Teaching Award in the College of Letters and Sciences at Berkeley in 2001.

Dr. Hu is a professor emeritus of Health Economics in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. His current research interests are the economics of tobacco control, health care reform in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and costs and outcomes of mental health capitation experiments.