Dr. Manderscheid’s federal career has spanned a broad range of activities. He previously served as chief of mental health services research, mental health statistics and informatics, and evaluation research programs at the National Institute of Mental Health, before later becoming the chief of mental health statistics and IT at the Center for Mental Health Services within SAMHSA. He also served as a senior policy advisor on health care reform in the office of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Health.

Dr. Manderscheid is a recognized national and international thought leader in mental health and substance use and has numerous published works. He was principal editor and a co-author for the last eight editions of Mental Health, United States, spanning 1987 to 2004, and he has produced a very large number of scientific articles and white papers, which have been published in a broad array of peer-reviewed publications, including Preventing Chronic Disease, The Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, Psychiatric Services, and Archives of General Psychiatry, among others. He is also a regular contributor to Behavioral Healthcare and serves on the editorial boards of numerous publications in public and mental health.

mental health, substance use, serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, mental health epidemiology, mental health service statistics, mental health services research, preparedness, avian flu, returning veterans, Institute of Medicine; President's New Freedom Commission, NIMH, Center for Mental Health Services, SAMHSA, mental health evaluation

Recent Awards:

Dr. Manderscheid is a regular keynote speaker at industry functions and has received numerous awards for his contributions to the fields of mental health and substance abuse including the American College of Mental Health Administration’s Distinguished Service Award and Saul Feldman Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2006 Excellence in Public Service Award, given by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare. He is particularly noted for his work with the consumer and family communities and for introducing consumer participation in Federal workgroups and consumer assessments of mental health care services. Such assessments are now commonplace in the field.

Dr. Manderscheid has been elected Chairperson of the Mental Health Section, American Public Health Association; President of the Washington Academy of Sciences; President of the District of Columbia Sociological Society; President of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association; and President of the Federal Executive Institute Alumni Association Foundation.

Recent Publications:

Manderscheid, Ronald W. and Berry, Joyce T., Editors

Mental Health, United States, 2004. Rockville: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2007.

Manderscheid, Ronald W. and Donaldson, Linda P., Editors

Building Community Collaboratives from Michigan to China. Special Issue of International Journal of Mental Health, forthcoming, Summer 2007.

Articles

Compagni, Amelia and Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“A Neuroscientist-Consumer Alliance to Transform Mental Health Care.” Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, April 2006.

Colton, Craig W. and Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Congruencies in Increased Mortality Rates, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Causes of Death Among Public Mental Health Clients in Eight States.” Preventing Chronic Disease, April 2006. Online at: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2006/apr/05_0180.htm.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Perspectives: Don’t Let the Future Repeat the Past.” Behavioral Healthcare, May, 2006.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Perspectives: Preparing for a Bird Flu Pandemic.” Behavioral Healthcare, July, 2006.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Perspectives: The Realities of the EHR Revolution.” Behavioral Healthcare, August 2006.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Perspectives: Saving Lives and Restoring Hope.” Behavioral Healthcare, September 2006.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Perspectives: Making Depression Care a National Priority.” Behavioral Healthcare, November 2006.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Perspectives: Remembering Wayne Fenton.” Behavioral Healthcare, December 2006.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Perspectives: Uncle Sam’s Role in Staff Training.” Behavioral Healthcare, January 2007.

Manderscheid, Ronald. W.

“Perspectives: Our Need for ‘General Contractors’.” Behavioral Healthcare, February 2007, forthcoming.

Manderscheid, Ronald W., Masi, Dale, Rossignol, Charles R., and Masi, Daniel A.

“The Integration of Physical Health and Behavioral Health Services: Three University Case Examples.” Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2007, forthcoming.

Manderscheid, Ronald W.

“Preparing for Pandemic Avian Influenza: Ensuring Mental Health Services and Mitigating Panic.” Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2007, forthcoming.

Selected Recent Presentations:

"Public and Private Perspectives on EHRs and PHRs for Mental Health and Substance Use Care," keynote speech at the 6th Annual California Information Management Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2006.

“Policy Implications of the New IOM Report,” guest lecture, George Washington School of Public Health, Washington, D.C., April 2006.

“Prospects and Problems in Implementing a Behavioral Healthcare EHR,” speech at the Annual Toward an Electronic Patient Record National Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2006.

“Implementing the New IOM Report,” Summer Institute, Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2006.

“Improving State Pandemic Planning,” Focus Group for State Public Health Preparedness Directors, Annual Meeting of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2006.

“Business Strategies for Mental Health Consumers,” speech at the National Meeting on Integration of Mental Health Consumers into the Community, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2006.

“The IOM Report as a Framework for Implementing EBPs,” speech at the Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2006.

“Policy Concerns in Implementing EHRs and PHRs,” panel presentation at the Annual Meeting, American Public Health Association, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2006.

“Lessons from the International Community in Developing American IT,” speech at the 2nd Annual Behavioral Healthcare IT Conference, Arlington, Virginia, November 2006.

“Preparing for the Avian Flu Pandemic: A Plan for Action,” Annual Southern Regional Conference on Mental Health Statistics, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2006.