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Roger Boothroyd, A.
Associate Professor
Brief Biography
Roger A. Boothroyd is a Professor and the Associate Chair in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy and also holds a faculty appointment in the College of Public Health. He has been conducting mental health services research for the past 20 years. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, specializing in measurement, evaluation, and research design. He teaches courses in research methodology, program evaluation, and statistics. Dr. Boothroyd was formerly a Research Scientist with the New York State Office of Mental Health where he directed various federally-funded research and demonstration projects.
He is currently the PI of a $1.5 million contract with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration examining among other issues, how Medicaid mental health managed care impact beneficiaries’ access to, quality of, and outcome of care. He also is the PI on a project funded by the NIH to study of the maximum individualized change (MIC) analytic procedure developed by Boothroyd, Banks, Evans, Greenbaum, and Brown (2000). He is also a Co-PI on and NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates.
He recently completed serving five years on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health and continues to serve on their Nomination Committee. He served eight years as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Commission of Graduate Foreign Nursing Schools during which time he Chaired their Professional Health Care Standards Committee and is currently a member of their Strategic Planning Committee. He is an active member of the American Public Health Association and has held various elected position in the mental Health Section, and the American Evaluation Association. He is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and serves as a grant reviewer for NIMH, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and the National Institute for Health Research (England).
Key Publications
Environmental Safety and Exposure to Violence of Inner City Children: Children in Psychiatric Crisis
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