About The Lloyd Society
The Lloyd Society is a multi-disciplinary non-profit public
charity (501(c)(3)) dedicated to providing complex
empirical analysis of various problems that impact high-risk children
and adolescents. It capitalizes on the diversity of our members'
professional backgrounds to provide consulting and research services,
including original quantitative and qualitative research, policy
analysis, experimental design study development and implementation, as
well as expert witness services. The Lloyd Society was developed to
address gaps in the available research on data-driven means of
addressing the many concerns inherent to high-risk adolescents. It has
grown to embrace a variety of projects related to the physical and
mental health of children, particularly those within the custody of
juvenile justice systems.
Officers
Catherine A. Gallagher, Ph.D. — Founding Officer
Catherine A. Gallagher, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and
Director of the Justice, Law and Crime Policy Graduate Program at
George Mason University. Her research focuses on the ways in which the
intersection between health care and justice agencies may be improved
to better meet the needs of high-risk populations and the public health
of their larger communities. Her work on justice-involved adolescents
has appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, the Journal of Adolescent Health,
Social Science and Medicine and is forthcoming in early 2007 in Pediatrics.
She routinely works with the federal agencies such as the Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Centers for Disease
Control, the Office of the Surgeon General, and the U.S. Bureau of the
Census in developing and monitoring national statistical programs and
providing policy-relevant analyses. She is currently leading the
epidemiological and legal research efforts behind a joint-agency
Federal Initiative on Juvenile Justice Health.
Anne S. Douds, J.D., ABD — Executive Director
Ms. Douds is a former trial attorney who is completing her doctorate in justice policy at George Mason University. Ms. Douds graduated from Duke University in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in political science; from Emory University School of Law, with honors, in 1994; and she is scheduled to complete her doctoral program in the winter 2010. Ms. Douds also studied government and literature at the University of Zimbabwe and the University of Gaborone. She started her career on two Congressional staffs (Congressman John Lewis and Congressman Ben Jones), then she moved into the United States Attorney’s office in Georgia . Before entering the non-profit sector, she worked for a decade as the managing partner in a general trial practice where she represented youth in civil, criminal, and capital proceedings. In addition to serving as the Executive Director, she pursues two primary research agendas: improving health care delivery among justice-involved youth and developing evidence-based advocacy protocols for practicing attorneys. Ms. Douds lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with her husband and two sons, where they are restoring an antebellum Civil War home. She also provides pro bono services to the Children’s Advocacy Center and coordinates the Cub Scouts’ contribution to the Toys for Tots Program.
Nena Messina, Ph.D. — Chief Development Officer
Nena P. Messina, Ph.D., is a Criminologist at UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and has been involved in substance abuse research for over twelve years. Dr. Messina's areas of expertise include the association between crime, psychiatric disorders, and substance abuse, and the specialized treatment needs of drug-dependent women offenders. Recently, Dr. Messina was appointed as a Special Consultant to act as a Governor's Rehabilitation Strike Team Member. To create a strategic plan to reform the California prison system in response to Legislative bill AB 900 - The Public Safety & Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007. Dr. Messina has also focused her efforts toward identifying the long-term outcomes of drug-exposed children. Dr. Messina is currently the Principal Investigator of the Children Exposed to Methamphetamine Use and Manufacture Study, a two-year pilot study to assess the medical, developmental, and placement outcomes of children removed from methamphetamine labs in Los Angeles County. Dr. Messina is also the PI of several NIDA-funded grants assessing the effectiveness of gender-responsive treatment for women offenders (on parole, in prison, or under community supervision such as drug court and Prop 36). Dr. Messina has collaborated on numerous publications on the psychosocial correlates of substance abuse treatment outcomes and has contributed a great deal to the understanding of co-occurring disorders, specifically Antisocial Personality Disorder and treatment responsivity for women offenders.
Adam Dobrin, Ph.D. — Chief Resource Officer
Adam Dobrin, Ph.D., earned his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology
from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, and both his Master’s
and Doctorate in Criminology from the University of Maryland. While
there he worked with the Violence Research Group applying public health
methodologies to the problem of violence. Professor Dobrin has
published case-control studies on homicide and suicide risk factors and
statistical compilations of violent crime. He is an Associate Professor
at Florida Atlantic University and is an Academic Fellow at the
Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. Part of his Fellowship
involved overseas travel for an intensive immersion in the world of
terrorism, and the ways the political, diplomatic, military,
intelligence, and criminal justice systems respond to or prevent it.
Jack Chirieleison — Chief Technology Officer
Prior to joining The Lloyd Society Jack Chirieleison was owner/principal of Luminosa Creative Services, a multidisciplinary company which provided web development and design, publication design, multimedia production, project documentation and software training to public and private sector clients. He is currently coordinator for all automated systems for the U.S. Department of Justice Census of Juveniles on Probation, with direct responsibility for web development, database design and management, and geographic map and graph programming, as well as supervision of network functions and security. Previous clients for whom he has provided web development, project management, programming and design services include the National Library of Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health; George Mason University; The Lloyd Society; the Center for Public Service Communication; the Center for Information Policy at the University of Maryland; the University of Michigan’s School of Information; Aquarian Entertainment LLC; and Environmental Profiles, Inc. He attended the University of Maryland and Clemson University, where he received the Freshman English Prize.
Board of Directors
LtCol. Douglas G. Douds, Chair
LtCol. Douds is a Marine fighter pilot who was the commanding officer for the Marine fighter/attack squadron in Iraq in 2008-2009. He graduated with honors from Wake Forest University in 1990, and he currently is completing a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies at the Army National War College. During His tenure as the Commanding Officer of VMFA 122, he had the attendant duty of serving as the adjudicator in all non-judicial proceedings involving his Marines.
After almost two decades working amongst Marines, he is keenly aware of the degree to which proper interventions can benefit socioeconomically and culturally diverse populations. While LtCol. Douds remains on active duty; he is taking leadership of the Board of Directors in order to promote the development of evidence-based interventions among high risk youth and to implement strategic leadership principles in the non-profit context. LtCol. Douds also is an avid historical researcher and writer who specializes in the Battle of Gettysburg. He, his wife, and two sons live in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where they are restoring an antebellum Civil War home.
Paulette Brown
Nancy Chand
Carol P. Cramer
Michelle DiMartino
Luis Gabriel Cuervo
Luis Gabriel Cuervo is a Medical Doctor with a MSc in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics from the Universidad Javeriana, and qualified as a Specialist in Family Medicine at the Universidad del Valle, Colombia . He brings first hand experience as producer and user of evidence for health care in the clinical, academic, and research fields working in various communities in rural and urban environments in Colombia . He has developed a career around knowledge management including summarizing evidence and developing strategies to systematically inform policy and health care with research evidence. From his position as Clinical Editor at BMJ Clinical Evidence he emphasized evidence based programmes and access to developing countries and worked closely with the World Health Organization and International NGOs including the Cochrane Collaboration and INCLEN. More recently he has coordinated the response of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) to the 2004 Mexico Declaration on Health Research including the development of PAHO's Policy on Research for Health, approved by the 49th Directing Council on 30 September 2009 (http://www.paho.org/ResearchPortal/Policy). In September 2005 Luis Gabriel Cuervo joined PAHO/WHO when he was appointed Chief of the Research Promotion & Development Unit.
Ann Gallagher
Robert Harper
Susie Nemes
Staff
Allyson Ashley — Financial Advisor
Stacy Calhoun — Research Associate
Kathryn Markey — Conference Planner
Agenda: September 2009 Board of Directors Meeting
Form 990 2008
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