Board, Staff and External Council
Board Members
Troy Garland, MBA, RN
Board Chair
Senior Vice President,
Clinical and Quality Operations,
Equality Health
Former Chief Nursing Officer and
Senior Vice President, Clinical Innovation, Sensely
Ayman Fanous, MD
Research and Grants Committee
Chair, Department 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
Maria Cholley, LPC, CMHC
Treasurer
Senior Director,
Outpatient Services, Copa Health
Licensed Counselor, Behavioral Health
Jordan Karp, MD
Vice Chair
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
Rita Wiese, LMSW
Board Secretary
Senior Director, Behavioral Health Services, Banner Health Service Complete Care
Director, Banner Neighborhood Provider and Community Advisory Councils,
Maricopa, Pinal, Pima and Yuma Counties
Tasneem Doctor, BHP
Finance Committee
Chief Operations Officer,
AZ Market, NovumHealth
Principal Owner,
EB Medical Consulting
Former Vice President,
Equality Health Foundation
Mitzi Krockover, MD
Executive 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.
Staff / Consultants
Keith Crnic, PhD
Interim Executive Director
Chief Science Officer
Ex Officio, 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
External Council of Scientific Advisors (ECSA)
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
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 & 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