Paul M. Lefkovitz, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist whose work has encompassed clinical, administrative, research, and consultative roles in the areas of behavioral health service delivery and performance measurement. Since 1974, he has held progressive leadership positions within the hospital and community-based sectors of the industry including several years at the CEO level. He has been an active contributor to the professional literature and presents regularly at regional and national conferences. He is a past-president of the Association for Ambulatory Behavioral Healthcare and continues to serve on the National Advisory Panel of its Board of Directors. He is also immediate past-Chair of the Joint Commission’s Behavioral Health Professional and Technical Advisory Committee. In addition, he has served as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine. He was the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Partial Hospitalization and Continuum. Dr. Lefkovitz is active in behavioral health advocacy groups and serves on the Boards of Mental Health America in Indiana, The Indiana Mental Health Foundation, and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Indianapolis Chapter.

Selected Addresses and Publications

• Process Benchmarking: A Portal to Best Practices. National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Annual Conference, Boston, May 1, 2008.
• Rushing, Susan and Lefkovitz, Paul M. (2008). Learning from Top Performers. Behavioral Healthcare Magazine, 28 (2): 28-30
• Partial Hospitalization History and National Benchmark Data. Congressional Briefing Sponsored by Rep. E.B. Johnson, Washington, D.C., March 13 and June 10, 2008.
• Lefkovitz, Paul M. (2007). Benchmarking for Best Practices. National Council Magazine, Vol. 3: 19
• Lefkovitz, P.M. (2005) Process Benchmarking: Moving Beyond the Numbers. Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, October, 18-23.
• Lefkovitz, P.M. (2004) Benchmarking: A Gateway to Best Practices. Behavioral Health Management, 24(6), 16-20.
• Lefkovitz, P.M. (2004) Beyond Outcomes: Benchmarking in Behavioral Health Care. Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, February, 32-37.
• Kiser, Laurel, Lefkovitz, Paul M., and Kennedy, Larry. (2001) The integrated behavioral health continuum: Theory and Practice. Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
• Lefkovitz, P.M. (1997). Innovations in Continuum Integration and Build-Out. Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow Annual Conference, Institute for Behavioral Health, Washington, D.C.
• Lefkovitz, P.M. (1995). Milieu: Therapeutic Key to the Entire Continuum. American Association for Partial Hospitalization Annual Conference (Keynote Plenary Address), Denver, Colorado.
• Kiser, L.J., Lefkovitz, P.M., and Kennedy, L.L. (1993). The continuum of ambulatory mental health programs. Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow, 2(4): 14-16.
• Lefkovitz, Paul M., Morrison, Dennis P., and Davis, H.J. (1982). The Assessment of Current Functioning Scale. Journal of Psychiatric Treatment and Evaluation. 4: 297-305.
• Lefkovitz, Paul M. (1979). Linking program evaluation to the treatment process in a partial hospitalization setting. In G. Landsberg, W.D. Neigher, R.J. Hammer,, C. Windle and R. Woy (Eds.), Evaluation in Practice: A Sourcebook of Program Evaluation Studies from Mental Health Care Systems in the United States. U.S. DHEW.
• Lefkovitz, Paul M. (1974). Program evaluation in a day treatment center. Goal Attainment Review. 1: 44-48

Lisa Johnson is the Technical Support Coordinator at Behavioral Pathway Systems. Lisa has worked for BPS since 1998. She has 19 years of experience in the information systems field within behavioral health and other settings. She has received certified advanced training in Windows server operating systems and applications. She is also the BPS expert on local area networks and is proficient as a troubleshooter of hardware and software.

Tim Gapinski has 11 years of experience in the field of Information Technology, specializing in custom software development. He began his career as a basic software instructor and rose to become a senior level instructor where he trained professionals for the certified Internet Webmaster certification which included advanced programming concepts. He also served as a network administrator over several small companies and has built numerous professional websites including a social networking website. He is happily married and has two college age daughters. He has volunteered his technical skills to the Children’s program at his church where he sees a connection to his work. "I think both programming and children succeed under similar circumstances; when curiosity is encouraged, knowledge is gained through experience, ambiguity is embraced and the rules of art and science are applied." -Gapinski

Barry J. Skidmore, Ph.D. has had over 30 years experience as a research scientist in the areas of cellular immunology and cancer. As an adjunct to those activities he has developed numerous software applications and databases to facilitate in the analysis of scientific data. His scientific training includes research at the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic, the University of California at San Diego, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Harvard Medical School, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, and Lilly Research Laboratories. He has held academic appointments in the Department of Medicine at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, the Department of Pathology and Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and the Department of Immunopathology at the Research Institute of Scripps Clinic. He is the author and coauthor of over 50 scientific articles, abstracts, and book chapters, and has been an invited speaker at national and international scientific conferences. His awards include a National Institutes of Health Young Investigator Award, The Lilly Research Laboratories President’s Recognition Award, and the Mental Health Association in Marion County Award for Outstanding Service. He has been working as a consultant and as a volunteer in the areas of database development and the deployment of servers and local area networks for not-for-profit organizations.

Dennis (Denny) Morrison has served in a diversity of clinical, administrative, academic, and consultative roles in the behavioral health field since 1969. A psychologist by training, he has held leadership positions in the community behavioral health, private hospital, managed care, and outcome product sectors of the industry. He is a national leader in the field of evidence-based practices, clinical informatics, and performance measurement. Dr. Morrison has served as a consultant to over fifty organizations throughout the US and is on the consultant panel of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. He has published numerous articles and book chapters and has been a sought-out and popular speaker at many national and regional conferences. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Mental Health Corporations of America and also as a Steering Committee member of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership. For 13 years he served as the CEO of the Center for Behavioral Health in Bloomington, Indiana. Under his leadership, the Center became the first behavioral health organization to win the JCAHO Codman Award for excellence in the use of outcomes measurement to achieve health care quality improvement; the second behavioral health organization to win the HIMSS Davies Award; and the only healthcare organization of any kind to win both. He is currently the CEO of the Centerstone Research Institute (CRI) based in Bloomington, Indiana.

Selected Addresses and Publications

• Rhea, K. and Morrison, D.P. (2007) Psychiatrists Balancing Act. Behavioral Healthcare November
• Morrison, D.P. (2007) The EHR was just the beginning. Behavioral Healthcare. February
• Morrison, D.P. (2006) When the Computer Offers Advice. Behavioral Healthcare. October
• Morrison, D.P. (2006) Before an EHR, You Must Endure a Paper Cut. Behavioral Healthcare. March
• Morrison, D.P. (2006) Lead – Don’t Manage – EHR Adoption. Behavioral Healthcare. January
• Morrison, D.P. (2004). Real World Use of Evidence-Based Treatments in Community Behavioral Health Care. Psychiatric Services. May.
• Morrison, D.P. (2003). Use Caution with Evidence-Based Treatments in Systems of Behavioral Healthcare. Behavioral Healthcare Tomorrow. June
• Morrison, D.P. (1996). The Clinician as Informatics Expert. In N. Cummings and J. Cummings (Eds.) Surviving the Demise of Solo Practice: Mental Health Practitioners Prospering in the Era of Managed Care. Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press.
• Morrison, D.P. (1996). Customer Service in Behavioral Healthcare. In C. Stout (Ed.) The Complete Guide to Managed Behavioral Healthcare. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
• Morrison, D.P. (1996). Automating Clinical Outcomes Assessment. In C. Stout (Ed.) The Complete Guide to Managed Behavioral Healthcare. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
• Morrison, D.P. (1994). Computer-Based Outcomes Management. Behavioral Informatics Tomorrow Conference, San Diego, CA.
• Morrison, D.P. (1993). Automated Assessment: Return on Investment. In B. Schlosser, K.L. Moreland, E.L. Betts, S. Marcus, S.J. Stein, & R.B Tower (Eds.) Taming Technology: Issues, Strategies and Resources for the Mental Health Practitioner. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Morrison, D.P. (1991). Integrating consumerism into clinical care delivery: The role of the therapist.
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