Dr. Croff is a Professor in the Department of Rural Health at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. She currently serves as the Co-Director of the Biological Systems Core for the NIGMS-funded Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity. She has served in other administrative roles across the OSU system, including as Executive Director of the National Center for Wellness and Recovery, Associate Director for Research for the Center for Family Resilience, and Director of the Master of Public Health program. Dr. Croff’s research focuses on substance use among diverse cohorts of women. She is currently the Principal Investigator the Oklahoma site of the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, a national longitudinal research project which seeks to better understand the role of prenatal exposures on neurodevelopment.

Tisha Wiley, Ph.D. is the Chief of the Services Research Branch and Associate Director for Criminal Justice at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Wiley has provided leadership at NIDA on a broad array of topics, including research addressing substance use in the context of the justice system. She leads the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN), a 5-year $180M initiative focused on transforming responses to the opioid crisis in the justice system. Dr. Wiley also leads the Services Research Branch, which is collectively responsible for a portfolio of more than 580 grants focused on addiction health services research, totaling over $430M annually. Prior to joining NIH in 2010, she was the Assistant Director of Research at the Juvenile Protective Association, a non-profit social service agency in Chicago. Tisha received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Sean Fogler is a physician living in long-term recovery, co-founder and consultant with Elevyst, a public health consulting group, and co-chair of the Health Justice for Pennsylvania Coalition, a collaborative initiative with Elevyst and the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Sean works extensively with healthcare systems, criminal legal system stakeholders, and community-based organizations as a public health, drug policy, and stigma expert. He uses his lived experience to educate and inform, reduce stigma, and improve public health policy for mental health and substance use disorders. Sean is active in the recovery community and co-facilitates a weekly physician peer support group with the LiveWell Foundation. In addition to his work as a public health consultant, Sean volunteers as a peer support specialist for Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers and serves on the board of The Bridge Way School, Philadelphia’s first recovery high school.