Who Is Team Alpha

• Christ Centered First Responder Mental Health Coach
• Natural Lifemanship Equine Assisted Trauma Management Certified
• 35 years of Response experience as a 
• Paramedic / Fire Fighter
• 911 Dispatcher
• Corrections Officer
• Air Medical Telecommunicator
• Regional Healthcare Emergency Manager
• State Medical Assistance Team Commander
• HAZWOPER Cert
• Medical First Receiver Haz Mat Decon Trainer
• Mass Fatalities Management Trainer

• Deployment to 7 Hurricane responses

  Ph.D., BCB, IABMCP 

 2024 - Present Affiliate, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity

1997 – Present Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology - North Carolina Central University

2014 – 2018 Retired Tenured Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Medical Psychology, Duke 

University Medical Center

2011 – 2013 Associate   Professor   of   Psychiatry,   Division   of   Medical   Psychology,   Duke 

University Medical Center

2011 – 2018 Retired Associate Professor of Psychology-Social & Health Sciences, Duke University

2002 – 2010 Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Division of Medical Psychology, Duke 

University Medical Center

2005 Hurricane Katrina Mental Health Unit Director  Waveland Mississippi 

Duke State Medical Assistance Team

2002 – 2010 Assistant   Clinical   Professor   of   Psychology-Social   &   Health  Sciences,   Duke 

University

2001 Clinical   Associate,   Director   of   Chronic   Pain   Management   Program   -   Duke 

University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

1999 – 2002 Clinical  Associate  Department  of Psychology:  Social  &  Health Sciences,  Duke 

University

1999 – 2001 Instructor,   Director   of   Chronic   Pain   Management   Program   -   Duke   University 

Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

1998 – 1999 Instructor - Duke University, Department of Psychology