IMHR Board, Staff and External Council

Board Members

Troy Garland, MBA, RN 
Chair

Senior Vice President
Clinical and Quality Operations, Equality Health

Former Chief Nursing Officer and
Senior Vice President of
Clinical Innovation,
Sensely

Tami Adelman
Vice Chair & Treasurer

President and Founder,
iConnect Fundraising and Consulting

Chief Development Officer,
Cancer support Community Arizona

Director of Development and School Advancement,
Padres Jewish Day School

Assistant Director,
the American Technion Society

Rita Wiese, LMSW Secretary

Senior Director of
Behavioral Health Services,
Banner Health Service

Complete Care Director,
Banner Neighborhood Provider and Community Advisory Councils in Maricopa, Pinal, Pima and Yuma Counties

Eric Tomlon 
Finance Committee

Chief Administration Officer
and Chief of Staff,
Healthcare Outcomes Performance Company (HOPCo)

Former Chief Operation Officer,
Dignity Health Medical Group

Former Chief Operating Officer,
The CORE Institute

Jordan Karp
Grants & Research Committee

Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry,
College of Medicine,
University of Arizona

Clinical Service Chief for
Behavioral Medicine,
Banner University Medical Center
and Group – Tucson

Ayman Fanous
Subject Matter Expert

Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona

Chair of Psychiatry,
Banner University Medical Center Phoenix

Former Chair of Psychiatry,
State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center

Mitzi Krockover, MD
Governance Committee

Principal and Senior Consultant,
SSB Solutions, Inc.

Managing Director and Co-Chair,
Health Sector Group,
Golden Seeds

Former Vice President,
Women’s Health, Humana Inc.

Former Founding Medical Director,
Iris Cantor-UCLA
Women’s Health Center

Tasneem Doctor, BHP
Subject Matter Expert

Chief Operating Officer,
AZ Market,
NovumHealth

Licensed Psychologist,
Novum Behavioral Health

Principal Owner,
EB Medical Consulting

Former Vice President,
Equality Health Foundation

Maria Cholley, LPC
Education & Events Committee

Senior Director,
Outpatient Services,
Copa Health

Licensed Counselor,
Behavioral Health

External Council of Scientific Advisors

Gerry Koocher, PhD 

Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences,
Boston’s Children’s Hospital

Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Center for Bioethics

Marlene Freeman, MD

Professor of Psychiatry,
Harvard Medical School

Department of Psychiatry,
Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Director,
Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for
Women’s Mental Health

Medical Director, CTNI

Fredrick Blow, PhD 

Professor of Psychiatry

Director, UM Addition Center

Director,
Michigan Mental Health
Integration Program,
Michigan Medicine,
University of Michigan

Fabian Fernandez, PhD 

Associate Professor,
Cognition/Neural Systems

Director,
Circadian Trends Laboratory

Department of Psychology,
University of Arizona

Lisa Spanierman, PhD

Professor and Associate Dean

Counseling & Counseling Psychology

College of Integrative
Science and Arts,
Arizona State University

Mauricio Tohen, MD, DrPH, MBA 

University Distinguished
Professor and Chairman

Department of Psychiatry &
Behavioral Sciences,
University of New Mexico
School of Medicine

Consultants

Keith Crnic, PhD
Chief Science Officer and Ex Officio,
IMHR Board of Directors
Chair, Research and Grants Committee

Retired Department Head and
Professor of Psychology,
Arizona State University

Former faculty appointments:
University of Washington School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences;
Department of Psychology, Penn State University