MEET OUR CONSULTANTS
Alexander Blount, EdD
Dr. Blount is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine and Community Health at UMass Chan Medical School, where he founded the Center for Integrated Primary Care and created an online training program that has trained over 4000 mental health clinicians to succeed as behavioral health providers on primary care health teams. He published the first book on the topic, Integrated Primary Care: The Future of Medical and Mental Health Collaboration, (Norton, 1998.) His newest book is Patient-Centered Primary Care: Getting from Good to Great, (Springer, 2019). Dr. Blount has provided training and consultation to over 75 organizations, ranging from the Ministry of Health in Singapore, to federal health agencies in the US, the American Medical Association, state Medicaid and other statewide programs, federally qualified health centers, academic medical departments, and for-profit healthcare start-ups.
Michael Bruner, PsyD
Dr. Bruner is the Director of Behavioral Health at HealthSource of Ohio, a large federally qualified health center that serves roughly 90,000 people in underserved rural communities in Southwestern Ohio. He trained at Cherokee Health Systems in Knoxville, TN, an exemplar for primary care and behavioral health integration. At HealthSource, he leads a multi-site staff of behavioral health clinicians and is leading the implementation of the primary care behavioral health clinical care delivery model, which is founded on a multidisciplinary team. As lead, he guides solutions related to billing, administrative systems, clinical workflows, and service capabilities for the organization as a whole. He has also successfully designed training for clinical psychology postdoctoral fellows, medical students and family medicine residents.
Judith Steinberg, MD, MPH, FACP
Dr. Steinberg is a primary care internist and infectious disease specialist. After practice and clinical leadership roles at community health centers in Boston and primary care policy and transformation leadership in Massachusetts, she served as the Chief Medical Officer at the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Heath. As Senior Advisor, she led the HHS Initiative to Strengthen Primary Health Care, coordinating the development of a primary care action plan across 14 HHS agencies. Dr. Steinberg is currently a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and a board member of several non-profit organizations, including Primary Care for All Americans. All of Dr. Steinberg’s work to strengthen primary care at both clinical practice and policy levels has emphasized integration of primary care and behavioral health.