NIATx Accelerating Reform Collaborative (ARC)
Contact and Coach Info

For all Accelerating Reform Collaborative questions contact:

Scott Gatzke
Products and Services Director, NIATx
608-890-1444
scott.gatzke@chess.wisc.edu

Helena Kahle
Outreach Specialist, NIATx
608-265-6276
helena.kahle@chess.wisc.edu

Coach Info

• Michael Boyle
  Consultant
  mboyle@fayettecompanies.org
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  Michael Boyle is the former President and CEO of Fayette Companies, a behavioral health organization located in Peoria, Illinois and is Director of the Behavioral Health Recovery Management project. Mike is a founding member of the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) and has been a member of the editorial boards of the Join Together Treatment Practitioner Research Bulletin and the National Addiction Technology Transfer Center’s The Bridge. Boyle recently served on a National Quality Forum committee charged with defining an episode of continuing care for a substance abuse treatment encounter. He was a member of a United Nations initiative charged with improving the quality of drug treatment worldwide. Mike also served as a provider coach for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Advancing Recovery project and has authored several articles and book chapters.

  Boyle currently provides contractual services focused on integrating mental health, addiction and primary care services, implementing evidence based clinical practices within recovery oriented systems of care and the development and use of electronic technologies to support behavioral health treatment and recovery.

• Victor Capoccia, Ph.D
  Senior Scientist, NIATx
  vcapoccia@sorosny.org
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  Victor Capoccia is program director for Closing the Treatment Gap and a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin. Previously he led the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Addiction Prevention and Treatment team, and worked on the Human Capital and Quality teams.

  For ten years, Capoccia was the president and CEO of CAB Health and Recovery Services, Inc., a community-based provider for inpatient, residential, outpatient, prevention, and related health services in the alcohol and drug addiction field. He was an invited member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Community-Based Drug Treatment; and chairman of CSAT’s National Treatment Plan work group on Improving Treatment Systems.

  Capoccia has also served as director of Community Health Services for the City of Boston, Department of Health and Hospitals, and was a member of the faculty of the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work. He was invited by the British National Health Service, Modernization Agency to develop guidance on sustaining change, and assisted a UN work group to expand quality treatment in developing nations. He holds a BA and MSW in community organization from Boston College, an MA in urban and regional planning from the University of Iowa, and a PhD in health policy from Brandeis University’s Heller Graduate School.

• Martin D. Cohen, MSW
  Lecturer, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard
  mcohen@mchcf.org
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  Mr. Cohen has more than 25 years experience in working with state and county behavioral health agencies to improve services. He has a long track record of assisting federal, state and local policy makers and providers in the areas of strategic planning, finance, local systems development and managed care. He has worked with state and federal agencies to plan and implement comprehensive strategies for improving consumer services.

  Mr. Cohen previously served as a deputy director and senior program consultant with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and was a deputy assistant secretary in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health & Human Services. He is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, and is co-director of the Harvard/NASMHPD State Mental Health Leadership Program.

• Colette Croze, MSW
  Principal, Croze Consulting
  Crozec@aol.com
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  Colette Croze is a private consultant specializing in public resource management, focusing on purchasing and design options for managed systems of care. Her work has taken her across the country to numerous States and Counties who have re-engineered public systems through the use of care management and risk arrangements with both public and private organizations. Recent consultations include work on incorporating population-based planning and process improvement into recovery-oriented service systems; analyzing effective strategies for reducing emergency department presentations and inpatient admissions; and using performance management to improve provider practices.

  Ms. Croze has over thirty years’ experience in the public behavioral health system, working for county government and several states in senior management positions. She held Deputy Director positions in both Missouri's and Illinois' mental health systems and began her State government career in the Illinois’ Governor’s Budget Office. Prior to beginning her private practice, she was Senior Consultant to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) where she advised States on aligning public mental health systems with Medicaid managed behavioral healthcare initiatives.

• John Daigle
  Consultant
  jgdaigle@earthlink.net
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  John Daigle has more than 35 years of experience in the addiction treatment and prevention field, both at the community level in program development and leadership, as well as at the state and national level, in advocacy, public policy development and association management. For 30 years, he served as the Executive Director of the Florida Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, a statewide advocacy organization representing more than 120 community-based addiction treatment and prevention agencies. He has served on numerous Florida statewide task forces and most-recently served on the Governor's Drug Policy Advisory Council.

  On a national level, he is a past President of the State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) and has served as a consultant in numerous states and in the Carribean. He also served on the CSAT National Leadership Institute’s Advisory Board and was a member of the CSAT National Treatment Plan Expert Panel on “Research to Practice.” He currently serves as a consultant to the Legal Action Center, a national policy organization with offices in New York City and Washington, D. C. and to NIATx, the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and SAMHSA - funded project at the University of Wisconsin.

  In 2002, John received a “ Lifetime Achievement” award from the University of South Florida’s Mental Health Institute. In 2006, John received was the recipient of The State Associations of Addiction Services (SAAS) first national “Excellence in Leadership" award.

• Kyle Grazier, Ph.D
  Professor, Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
  Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
  Associate Director, MICHR
  University of Michigan
  kgrazier@umich.edu
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  Kyle L. Grazier is Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy and in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. She is also the Associate Director of the University's NIH Center for Clinical and Translational Research, and leads the Evaluation Core.

  Her research focuses on behavioral health financing, benefit plan design, and resource measurement. She has received support from the NIMH, NIAAA, AHRQ, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the BCBS Foundation and the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation.

  She authored and presented the National Quality Forum commissioned paper, "Operational Issues: Measuring Efficiency across Episodes of Care," and an Institute of Medicine commissioned paper, "Efficiency / Value-Based Measures for Services, Defined Populations, Acute Episodes and Chronic Conditions".

  Dr. Grazier serves on the NIMH Services Review Panel. She has also twice served as Chair of the University's Committee on Sustainable Health Benefits, Co-chair of the M-Healthy Advisory Board, and is currently a member of the Provost's Faculty Budget Committee.

• Dean Lea
  Tupelo Group, LLC
  deanlea@tupelogroup.com
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  Dean Lea is an organizational and leadership development consultant. He is a principle at the Burlington, VT based Tupelo Group. Dean holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont as well a pharmacy degree and graduate degrees from Union College. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is a National Advisory Council Member for the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. He has experience with developing leaders and cultures for start-ups, mid-size and large size organizations.

• Todd Molfenter, Ph.D
  Co-Deputy Director, NIATx
  Todd.Molfenter@chess.wisc.edu
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  As Deputy Director for NIATx, Todd Molfenter's role includes managing the technical assistance provided to Learning Collaborative members and process improvement coaches. He is also a process improvement coach for some Learning Collaborative members, and a key faculty member in Learning Sessions. For the last decade, Molfenter has studied, planned and led organizational and individual change efforts. As a member of the administrative staff at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH, he implemented a total quality management program and other change processes to improve the quality of care and achieve the organization's highest customer satisfaction ratings in over a decade. The hospital received numerous awards for its quality of care, culminating in its inclusion in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" for three consecutive years.

  Molfenter worked at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston , MA , where he directed consulting services and the annual conference. He specializes in the use of organizational collaboratives as agents of change, and has helped many clients, including the Health Care Finance Administration, Voluntary Hospitals of America, and the Harvard Risk Management Foundation to develop more effective approaches to productive change in their organizations. Molfenter received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the UW-Madison.

• Tom Mosgaller
  Director, Change Management, NIATx
  Tom.Mosgaller@chess.wisc.edu
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  Tom Mosgaller has over 25 years of experience in organizational and community development as a manager, teacher, and consultant to the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Tom’s passion lies in assisting communities, organizations and individuals to come together to create great places to work, learn, and grow.

  In 2006 Tom joined the staff of NIATx as Director of Change Management. He is past President and Chairman of the Board of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and has served as a Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Examiner and Judge for the Wisconsin Forward Award. In addition Tom has served as adjunct faculty for the University of Wisconsin School of Business - Management Institute, Northwestern University’s Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, and the McLaren School of Business of the University of San Francisco.

  Mr. Mosgaller has a master’s degree from Notre Dame School of Business specializing in the area of human and process management along with a Certificate in Strategic Human Resource Management from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). His undergraduate degree is from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.