Jo Ann Bartley, Ph.D

Jo Ann Bartley, Ph.D. is a graduate of Penn State University with a doctorate in Psychology and holds a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling. She is a licensed psychologist in Alaska. She has been the executive director and clinical supervisor for mental health and substance abuse treatment programs in the state of Alaska. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She teaches numerous courses on substance use disorders, has developed a model to provide college credit for students while at the same time delivering continuing education and medical education to licensed mental health and medical professionals through coursework and conferences. She enjoys travel and being able to access the forest 10 minutes from home.

Andre B. Rosay, Ph.D.

Andre B. Rosay is a Professor of Justice and the Interim Dean for the College of Health at the University of Alaska Anchorage.  His research focuses on gender-based violence, in particular violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men.  He has tremendous experience working with practitioners and tribal communities to conduct community-based participatory research that influences policy and practice. He was a Visiting Executive Research Fellow in the Office of Research and Evaluation at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). Under this fellowship, Dr. Rosay worked on NIJ’s program of research on violence against Indian women living in tribal communities.  Dr. Rosay’s most recent publication focuses on anti-racist and intersectional approaches in social science and community-based research.

Paula Colescott, MD, FASM, DABPM

Paula Colescott is board-certified in internal and addiction medicine, and is co-facilitator of the Alaska Health Physician Program. Colescott completed her internal medicine residency in the U.S. Air Force Wilford Hall Medical Center, with subsequent service at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. She has subsequently practiced inpatient, outpatient, and emergency medicine for more than 20 years in Colorado, Bush Alaska, and Hawaii. After completing her Fellowship in Addiction Medicine at the John A. Burns Medical School in Honolulu, Queens Hospital, she returned to Anchorage and served as the medical director of The Salvation Army Clitheroe Center (a detox/residential facility). She became the associate medical director of Providence Breakthrough (providing partial hospitalization, IOP, OP services addressing chemical dependency), and provided services in a methadone maintenance program in the Anchorage Bowl. In these venues, she provided didactic and onsite training of family medicine residents.

David Moxley, Ph.D

David Moxley is the director of the UAA School of Social Work and the UAA Dept. of Human Services, where he also holds the academic rank of professor. Moxley offers considerable expertise in recovery and rehabilitation in helping people struggling with social stigma in response to their diversity, health status, and social, emotional, or cognitive functioning. Prior to coming to Alaska, Moxley served as the Oklahoma Health Care Authority Medicaid Professor of Health in the University of Oklahoma Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. 

Tad Sumner, MS

Tad Sumner has more than 20 years of experience working with both adolescents and adults with a wide range of issues, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, trauma, stress, behavioral problems, emotional management, anger management, life transitions, Autism, men and women issues, and substance abuse. Prior to joining Psychology Resources, Sumner was the clinical director of the Volunteers of America Adolescent Residential Center for Help program for teenagers with substance addictions and mental health issues.

Ryan Wallace, MD, MPH

Ryan Wallace is a board-certified psychiatrist and fellowship-trained addiction psychiatrist. He grew up in Montana, exploring the mountains and forests of the Northwestern U.S., and graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor of science in bio-resource engineering.

Wallace earned an MD/MPH from the University of Washington, where his research focused on global public health, with projects in Mongolia and Vietnam. After medical school, he completed a psychiatry residency and addiction psychiatry fellowship at Yale University. During this time, he co-founded the Yale Psychedelic Science Group and was instrumental in re-initiating psychedelic research at Yale.

After an assistant professorship at Yale, Wallace is grateful to be back in the mountains with his family. He is currently the medical director of the Providence Breakthrough Substance Abuse Program and leads an interdisciplinary team in developing the Alaska Addiction Medicine Fellowship.