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Sponsored in part by SAMHSA
This conference is supported, in part by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Keynote Speakers & Bios:
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 Judge Mark G. Farrell is the senior justice in the Amherst, New York Criminal and Civil Court, which operates in the largest suburban jurisdiction in New York State. Farrell also serves in the capacity of an acting city court judge in the City of Buffalo Court. In terms of academic appointment, Farrell is an adjunct clinical professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law teaching a senior practicum entitled "Therapeutic Justice" and is also a research associate professor in the School of Social Work at the State University of New York at Buffalo as principal investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation three-year clinical intervention grant. Farrell's research initiatives in this area are focused on establishing the first national protocol for the proper triage and referral to treatment of mentally ill defendants who are also co-morbidly drug and/or alcohol dependant in a Drug Court setting.
Farrell founded the first suburban Drug Court in the United States in 1996, the first Domestic Violence Court in Erie County in 1997 and currently operates the nation's only Gambling Treatment Court, which opened its doors in 2001. Farrell is a distinguished alumnus of the State University of New York at Buffalo and a graduate of both the National Drug Court Institute and the National Judicial College. Farrell is also on the board of directors of the National Council of Problem Gambling, the board of directors of the New York State Drug Treatment Court Professional's Association and the New York State Compulsive Gambling Council. Farrell is also a member of the New York State City Court Judge's Association and is the current president of the New York State Magistrate's Association.
Farrell has received numerous national, regional and local recognitions for his judicial innovations, especially in terms of intervention into the realm of compulsive gambling within the Criminal Justice System. His work has been highlighted on the front page of the New York Times, as well as numerous other media publications around the United States. Prior to his extensive judicial career, he spent many years practicing and teaching as a trial lawyer in the areas of professional malpractice and professional licensure, product liability and environmental law. Farrell has also been certified for many years as an arbitrator and mediator in both the commercial and civil arenas. Additionally, Farrell was recently accorded a further distinction by being designated a member of “Who’s Who in American Law” in 2007. |
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 H. Westley Clark, MD, JD, MPH, CAS, FASAM, is director of CSAT under the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Formerly, he was chief of associated substance abuse programs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, served as senior consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson substance abuse policy program, and was associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Clark has written widely in the field of substance abuse and has contributed to books including Drug Policy and Human Nature and Principles of Addiction Medicine. He has published a number of legal and clinical articles in medical and legal journals. He received his MD and MPH from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his JD from Harvard University Law School. |
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Nancy M. Petry, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut Health Center. She received her doctorate degree in psychology from Harvard University in 1994 and then completed post-doctoral training at the University of Vermont. She joined the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1996. Petry’s research focuses on the treatment of addictive disorders, including substance use disorders and pathological gambling. She also has research interests related to impulsivity. Her research program has been supported by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles as well as a book on the treatment of pathological gambling.
Petry directs the post-doctoral fellowship training program's seminar series. She has mentored postdoctoral trainees, MPH and graduate students and students in summer undergraduate and medical school research programs at the University of Connecticut, who have published over 40 papers in the past five years.
Petry was awarded the 2007 College on Problems of Drug Dependence Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award recognizing early career excellence in the science of drug addiction. The Joseph Cochin Young Investigator Award is presented annually by the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, to recognize research contributions by a young scientist.
In acknowledgement of her considerable contributions to the field of addictive disorders, Petry also received the 2003 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology. In addition to her research efforts, Petry serves as a consultant and advisor for the National Institute of Health and is currently on the editorial boards of several academic journals. |
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Conference Planning Consortium
- Iowa Members -
Iowa Gambling Treatment Program
Prairielands ATTC
Division of Health Promotion, Prevention and Addictive Behaviors
Training Resources, A Division of ISAPDA
- Kansas Members -
Addiction and Prevention Services SRS/Addiction and Prevention Services (AAPS)
Eisenbarth & Associates
Kansas Association of Addiction Professionals
Kansas Coalition on Problem Gambling
- Missouri Members -
Missouri Department of Mental Health
Mid-America ATTC
Missouri Gaming Association
Missouri Council on Problem Gambling Concerns, Inc.
Missouri Lottery
Missouri Gaming Commission
- Nebraska Members –
Division of Behavioral Health Services, Department of Health and Human Services
Nebraska Council on Compulsive Gambling
Nebraska Dept. of Health and Human Services Systems
Prairielands Addiction Technology Transfer Center (PATTC) at Doane College
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