A board certified addiction medicine physician and obstetrician-gynecologist, Alta DeRoo, MD, DFASAM, FACOG, serves as chief medical officer of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. Dr. DeRoo joined the Foundation in 2020 as medical director of the Betty Ford Center’s three facilities in California. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a member of the American Association of Addiction Psychiatry and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. DeRoo’s extraordinary record of accomplishment includes a 24-year career in the U.S. Navy.

Quyen Ngo, PhD leads research activities at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation as the executive director of the Butler Center for Research. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology and women's studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she also completed a post-doctoral research fellowship. Over the past eight years, Dr. Ngo has conducted grant-funded research on the role of substance use in intimate partner violence and technology-enhanced brief interventions for substance use disorders.

Dr. Dawn Nickel is a respected thought leader in the women’s recovery sphere and (along with her daughter Taryn Strong) the Founder of the SHE RECOVERS Foundation, a not-for-profit grassroots organization that inspires hope, reduces stigma, and empowers women in or seeking recovery for substance use and/or mental health challenges. Dawn is a Certified Professional Recovery Coach, with a PhD and professional experience related to women and health care policy. In her work as a researcher and consultant, Dawn has focused largely on exploring how best to support women who experience substance use disorders, mental health issues and intimate partner violence, the three issues that prompted Dawn to start her own personal recovery journey in 1987.

Since 2011, Dawn and Taryn have dedicated their lives to developing SHE RECOVERS and its offerings so that more women (and more women from diverse backgrounds) have the access, resources, support and freedoms necessary to cultivate individualized and holistic pathways in order to find health, sustain long-term recovery, achieve their potential, and help other women to do the same.

Shari Hampton is a Recovery Coach, Anti-Racism Trainer and Trusted Advisor for the SHE RECOVERS Foundation. As an anti- racist consultant, Shari works with recovery and treatment organizations to help them explore their own biases and create pathways to greater diversity, equity and inclusion. As a Certified Recovery Coach, motivational speaker, and woman in long- term recovery, Shari combines her years of professional and personal experience to passionately support like-minded women who are ready to recover from "all the things.” Shari operates from a spiritually driven and empowered approach to healing, navigating her clients through a journey of self-discovery designed to connect their mind, body and spirit with their own innate healing potential. She is also the founder of Served Up Sober, a non-profit organization devoted to increasing healthy equity in marginalized communities by creating holistic spaces for women of color who are sober or sober curious.

Princess Drake, PsyD, is a mental health practitioner at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and serves as an adjunct assistant professor within the Hazelden Graduate school of Addiction Studies. Dr. Drake completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at the Florida School of Professional Psychology (FSPP) in 2018. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in Center City, Minnesota, and is currently completing the process for licensure. Dr. Drake earned her master's of arts in clinical psychology from FSPP in 2015 and master's of science in professional counseling at Lipscomb University in 2012. She currently serves as a member for The Trust Student and Early Career Psychologist committee. Her primary interests include co-occurring disorders, trauma, psychosis, diversity/cultural considerations, gender and sexual minority concerns, and personality disorders. Dr. Drake is dedicated to working with diverse populations and obtaining additional experience through leadership, mentoring and academic training. She has previously served as the Florida Psychological Association (FPA) Board of Directors student representative and FPA Graduate Students president, American Psychological Association of Graduate Students campus representative, and FSPP Student Psychological Association mentor coordinator.

Randi Tolliver, PhD, CADC, is a national expert in integrated care for substance use disorders and the complex co-occurring issues that accompany these diagnoses. She earned her doctoral degree from Northern Illinois University where she was the recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellowship. Dr. Tolliver has led several large-scale, statewide assessment and training initiatives, and has effectively delivered on complex federal grant projects with many diverse stakeholders. Her experience strategizing and delivering integrated systems change efforts with frontline skills training allows for effective, culturally appropriate training and consultation recommendations that are informed by her perspective as an experienced clinical leader and administrator in CMHC and FQHC settings. Dr. Tolliver develops and delivers flexible, customized programming plans backed up by rigorous methodologies derived from fidelity to evidence-based practices. Her research and clinical interests include best practices for youth and adults diagnosed with co-occurring disorders, social information processing styles, community mental health practices, and organizational and systems change practices.

Morgan Birch, DO, the founder of Pregnancy & Beyond, a highly-integrated recovery-oriented system of care designed for families struggling with opioid addiction. Pregnancy & Beyond includes prenatal and pediatrics care, education, pharmacy services and Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) combined with behavioral health counseling, supporting recovery for families throughout pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. A Kentucky native, Dr. Birch graduated from the University of Pikeville - Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her family medicine residency training at the University of Kentucky. The Pregnancy and Beyond Program is a partnership between Primary Care Centers of Eastern Kentucky and Mountain Comprehensive Care Centers. Dr. Birch has recently transitioned her practice to Grace Health. She has returned to her home town to expand addiction treatment to the primary care setting to further care for families struggling with opioid addiction in the community that raised her.