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Champion" src="/getmedia/b50ded94-9e32-4e1e-9be8-04a9636a1a4b/Michael-Champion.jpeg" style="margin-right: 10px; width: 120px; height: 180px; float: left;" />Dr. Michael K. Champion</h2> <p>Senior Advisor for Mental Health and the Justice System, Office of Governor Josh Green, State of Hawai’i; Chair, Forensic Division of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors</p> <p style="text-align: right;"><button aria-controls="toggleContent1" aria-expanded="false" class="c-btn c-toggle__btn">View Bio</button></p> <div class="c-toggle__content u-hide" id="toggleContent1"> <p>Dr. Champion is a board certified clinical and forensic psychiatrist with over twenty-eight years of experience working at the mental health-criminal justice interface. He attended medical school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He trained in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School where he served as Chief Resident in the Program in Psychiatry and the Law, was awarded the Rappeport Fellowship of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and was a special student at Harvard Law School. Dr. Champion trained in forensic psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine in the Division of Law and Psychiatry and studied the interface of law and medicine at Yale Law School. Dr. Champion’s professional experience includes serving in senior administrative roles in academic, private, and public mental health settings. He has extensive experience in healthcare administration and the design, implementation, and monitoring of healthcare programs and delivery systems in forensic, clinical, and correctional settings. He has served as a consultant to state and federal agencies, law enforcement, courts, attorneys, health care systems and executive management teams. Dr. Champion is active in the development of public policy and has experience and expertise in liaison work with legislators, state and local officials, community groups, and corporate clients. Dr. Champion currently serves as the Senior Advisor to Governor Josh Green for Mental Health and the Justice System in the Office of the Governor, State of Hawaii. As Senior Advisor, he leads the Governor’s cross-agency initiatives on mental health and justice system reforms including a working group of stakeholders across the state that identifies areas for improvement and develops policy recommendations that enhance mental health services across the continuum of care and sequential intercept map. Prior to this role, Dr. Champion served as the Forensic Chief and subsequently the Medical Director for the State of Hawaii’s Department of Health, Adult Mental Health Division. He serves as Chair of the Forensic Division of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Dr. Champion is active in the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and in the American Psychiatric Association (APA) where he is a member of the Council on Psychiatry and Law and its Workgroup on Mental Illness and Criminal Justice. He is a Co-Chair of the Judges and Psychiatrists Leadership Initiative of the Council of State Governments Justice Center and the APA Foundation and a member of the Conference of Chief Justice’s National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts' Response to Mental Illness.</p> </div>  <hr /> <h2><img alt="Judge Steve Leifman" src="/getmedia/7b2f4da4-dc20-446e-b2bd-0383285ec65a/Steve-Leifman.jpeg" style="margin-right: 10px; width: 120px; height: 180px; float: left;" />Judge Steve Leifman</h2> <p>Chair, Florida Supreme Court’s Task Force on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in the Court</p> <p style="text-align: right;"><button aria-controls="toggleContent2" aria-expanded="false" class="c-btn c-toggle__btn">View Bio</button></p> <div class="c-toggle__content u-hide" id="toggleContent2"> <p>From 2007 – 2010, Miami-Dade County Judge Steve Leifman served as Special Advisor on Criminal Justice and Mental Health for the Supreme Court of Florida. In this capacity, Judge Leifman was responsible for chairing the Court’s Mental Health Subcommittee, which authored a ground-breaking report entitled, Transforming Florida’s Mental Health System. This report, which has received considerable state and national recognition, outlines recommendations with the goal of decreasing inappropriate and costly involvement of people with mental illnesses in the justice system. Since October, 2010 Judge Leifman has chaired the Florida Supreme Court’s Task Force on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Issues in the Court.</p> </div>  <hr /> <h2><img alt="Dr. Sarah Vinson" src="/getmedia/8b8174aa-329d-4ddc-88a3-c1ab0d2b7a8d/Sarah-Vinson.jpeg" style="margin-right: 10px; width: 120px; height: 180px; float: left;" />Dr. Sarah Vinson</h2> <p>Founder and Principal Consultant of Lorio Forensics</p> <p style="text-align: right;"><button aria-controls="toggleContent3" aria-expanded="false" class="c-btn c-toggle__btn">View Bio</button></p> <div class="c-toggle__content u-hide" id="toggleContent3"> <p>SDr. Sarah Y. Vinson is a triple board certified Child & Adolescent, Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist. She is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Lorio Forensics, a multidisciplinary forensic mental health expert consultation company grounded in relevant clinical experience and cultural and structural competency. She has provided direct patient care in juvenile and adult correctional facilities and served as a forensic mental health expert in family, civil, criminal, state and federal courts. Dr. Vinson is a sought after speaker, educator. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Morehouse School of Medicine and holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment at Emory School of Medicine. In addition to her numerous engagements at medical meetings, she has been an invited lecturer at multiple national attorney conferences. She has won numerous awards in recognition of her leadership and service, including the Outstanding Young Alumna Award from the University of Florida College of Medicine in 2018. Dr. Vinson is a proud graduate of Florida A & M University and completed her training in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance in adult/general psychiatry and in both Child & Adolescent and Forensic Psychiatry at Emory School of Medicine. She has previously been appointed to the APA Communications Council by three different APA presidents and is an alum of the APA/SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program.</p> </div>  <hr /> <h2><img alt="Justice Kathryn Zenoff" src="/getmedia/6d7981f9-e94b-4350-92c5-c6fa061cf75c/Kathryn-Zenoff.jpeg" style="margin-right: 10px; width: 120px; height: 180px; float: left;" />Justice Kathryn Zenoff</h2> <p>Appellate Judge, Second District, Illinois Courts</p> <p style="text-align: right;"><button aria-controls="toggleContent4" aria-expanded="false" class="c-btn c-toggle__btn">View Bio</button></p> <div class="c-toggle__content u-hide" id="toggleContent4"> <p>Kathryn E. Zenoff has served as a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, Second District, since 2007. She chairs the Supreme Court Special Advisory Committee for Justice and Mental Health Planning and the Illinois Center of Excellence for Behavioral Health and Justice Advisory Board. She was named co-chair of the national Judges' Leadership Initiative for Criminal Justice and Mental Health Issues in 2007 and has contributed to the Chief Justice Initiative, the Judges' Guide to Mental Health Jargon, and The Council of State Governments’ videos and discussion guide titled "Interacting with Individuals with Behavioral Health Needs." Previously, while serving as chief judge, she facilitated a community-wide task force that created a mental health court in Winnebago County, Illinois, and presided in that court before her appellate court assignment. Zenoff has testified in Washington, DC, before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law at a hearing titled "Human Rights at Home: Mental Illness in our Jails and Prisons." 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