AHA psychiatric constituency section names 2018 leaders

Jan 10, 2018 - 02:27 PM

Mary Lou Mastro, system CEO for Edward-Elmhurst Health in Naperville, IL, is 2018 council chair of the AHA’s Constituency Section for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Services. Joseph Miller, vice-president of behavioral health care transformation services for Hackensack Meridian Health and clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Rutgers University’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, NJ, is chair-elect and will assume the role of chair in 2019. The council works with the AHA to identify ways to define and focus AHA policy, advocacy and member resources to improve the quality, efficiency and delivery of psychiatric and substance abuse services. For more on the constituency section and its 18-member council, see the AHA news release.

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