{"632937":{"#nid":"632937","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ISyE Professor to Serve on State Health Reform Commission","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENicoleta Serban, Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Professor in the\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/isye.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ISyE), will serve on a new commission examining how the state of Georgia can improve behavioral health services.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Governor Brian Kemp\u0026rsquo;s office announced the formation of the 24-member Georgia Behavioral Health Reform \u0026amp; Innovation Commission in September. Appointees are state legislators, judges, subject matter experts, and citizens. The commission will review Georgia\u0026#39;s behavioral health system, including access to and delivery of critical mental health services, and provide recommendations for reform and innovation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban\u0026#39;s primary role on the commission is as a member of the Workforce and System Development Subcommittee chaired by Gwen Skinner, vice president of Operations for Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;Serving on the commission is an excellent opportunity to inform policy and reform using health analytics,\u0026quot; Serban said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESerban\u0026rsquo;s research focuses, in part, on health care delivery and health policy. Recently, she and her research group have examined children\u0026#39;s Medicaid data nationwide, including access to mental health services. Serban\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/study-finds-gaps-treatment-children-adhd-medicaid\u0022\u003Eresearch has also discovered gaps\u003C\/a\u003E in behavioral therapy for children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In 2018, Serban and collaborators from Emory University and Georgia HOPE \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/news\/robert-wood-johnson-foundation-selects-serban-leadership-development-program\u0022\u003Ereceived funding\u003C\/a\u003E from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to research the delivery of mental and behavioral health services for children at school and at home.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe leads the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.healthanalytics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EHealth Analytics initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, a collaborative network of clinicians, health care providers, and public health entities. Serban has also authored or co-authored two books about the health care system, \u0026quot;Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare,\u0026quot; published by MIT Press and \u0026quot;Healthcare System Access: Measurement, Inference, and Intervention,\u0026quot; published by Wiley.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2019, the Georgia General Assembly allocated $20 million for local health departments to treat mental health issues and doubled funding for APEX, a school-based counseling services program.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full announcement about the commission on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gov.georgia.gov\/press-releases\/2019-09-26\/kemp-duncan-ralston-melton-announce-georgia-behavioral-health-reform\u0022\u003EOffice of the Governor website\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EVirginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Professor Nicoleta Serban will serve on the commission that will review Georgia\u0026#39;s behavioral health system.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Professor Nicoleta Serban will serve on the commission that will review Georgia\u0027s behavioral health system."}],"uid":"28766","created_gmt":"2020-02-25 19:15:30","changed_gmt":"2020-02-25 19:19:13","author":"Shelley Wunder-Smith","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"629264":{"id":"629264","type":"image","title":"Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Professor Nicoleta Serban","body":null,"created":"1574444130","gmt_created":"2019-11-22 17:35:30","changed":"1574444130","gmt_changed":"2019-11-22 17:35:30","alt":"Virginia C. and Joseph C. 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