Addressing Substance Abuse in Military and Veteran Populations

Speakers

• Dr. Keita Franklin

  LCSW Branch Head, Behavioral HealthHQ U.S. Marine Corps, Manpower & Reserve Affairs (MRRO)

  Dr. Keita Franklin is the leader of the newly formed Behavioral Health Branch at Headquarters Marine Corps. Dr. Franklin, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), brings a wealth of experience working with the military, service members, and families. He has served in a variety of civilian positions across the Department of Defense (DoD) in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army, managed the Marine Corps Family Advocacy Program, and served as the branch head of Behavioral Health.

• Dr. Eve Reider

  ChairpersonDeputy Chief Prevention Research Branch, National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA)

  Dr. Eve Reider is the Deputy Branch Chief of the Prevention Research Branch (PRB) in the Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research (DESPR) at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Her program areas of specialization focus on integrating drug abuse and HIV prevention for youth and expanding the prevention portfolio for vulnerable populations, including children in the child welfare system, children of parents in the criminal justice system, and youth with multiple problem behaviors. Dr. Reider has recently been involved in co-leading a NIDA initiative in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, and other National Institute of Health (NIH) institutes on substance use and associated comorbidities in military personnel, veterans, and their families. Before joining NIDA, she worked in the Department of Psychiatry at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

  Dr. Reider has a doctoral degree in Child/Family Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University.

• Lieutenant Colonel Sheila Seitz

  Reserve OfficerUnited States Army

  Lieutenant Colonel Sheila Seitz is an United States Army Reserve Officer serving on active duty with the Army Center for Substance Abuse Programs as a project officer. She is responsible for the management of several prevention and training projects to include an updated version of the drug testing training for Soldiers, the deployment of a virtual indicated prevention training product and the development of a new universal prevention product. She is a veteran of Desert Shield/Desert Storm and Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom. She holds a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Cincinnati.

• General Arthur Dean (Retired Army)

  ChairmanCommunity Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA)

  General Arthur T. Dean (Retired Army) has served as Chairman and CEO of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) for more than a dozen years. He provides strategic direction, diversifies and increases funding, leads the board, serves as primary spokesman, and oversees operations and CADCA personnel.

  Before joining CADCA, he spent more than 30 years in the U.S. Army, retiring in 1998 at the grade of Major General. During his time in the Army, General Dean served around the world, including four years in Germany. He saw combat in the Republic of Vietnam and Saudi Arabia and served six years with the 82d Airborne Division and the 18th Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, NC.

  General Dean commanded Army units from Company to Brigade for 10 years and served 10 years at Headquarters, Department of the Army, in Washington, DC. He is a U.S. Army and Republic of Vietnam Senior Parachutist and an Army Ranger. He possesses numerous awards, and twice received the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal.

• Mark Mattiko

  Substance Abuse Program ManagerU.S. Coast Guard (USCG)

  Mr. Mark Mattiko is the substance abuse program manager for the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), where he oversees 620 command and drug and alcohol representatives and 12 substance abuse prevention specialists. He is the principal investigator for the 2008 and 2011 U.S. Department of Defense Survey of Health Related Behaviors among Active Duty Military for the USCG. He constructed and oversees the USCG Medical Officer Training for Addiction Orientation for Healthcare Professionals course.

  Mr. Mattiko spent 17 years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as the coordinator of Evaluation and Research, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Clinical Center. He was the first non-M.D./Ph.D. to receive principal investigator status as a research scientist in the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

  Mr. Mattiko earned a third Master's degree in Clinical Research from the Foundation of the Advancement of Sciences, NIH.