• The OPEN MINDS Research and Consulting team is comprised of over 70 professionals with specific research and management expertise and experience in addiction treatment, mental health and social service fields. Meet our team...

  • Strategic Management: Organizations with limited resources have little margin for error, particularly in a rapidly changing environment that requires re-evaluation of mission, vision, values, customers, programming, and funding. Learn more...

  • Financial Management: Health and human service organizations have experienced environmental changes that have directly effected their financial performance and organizational stability. Learn more...

  • Technology & Information Management: Technology systems are essential to the operations and management of behavioral health and social service organizations. These organizations require and rely upon practice management, managed care, accounting, human resources, and consumer assessment & outcomes software. Learn more...

  • Leadership & Governance: The health and human service landscape is constantly changing. Changing with it it is the role of the board of directors. Boards of for-profit, not-for-profit, and governmental agencies all find their needs for information and their responsibilities shifting. Learn more...

  • Marketing & Innovation: Privatization, consolidation, and competitive bidding of behavioral health, MR/DD, and children's services have resulted in serious threats, as well as tremendous opportunities. This rapidly changing environment demands an understanding of customers, competitors, market opportunity, and how to successfully compete. Learn more...

Meet Our Research & Consulting Team

OPEN MINDS has a team of 75 professionals with specific research and management expertise and experience in addiction treatment, mental health and social service fields. Most team members are based in Gettysburg, with satellite offices in North Carolina, Florida, Washington, Colorado, Montana, California, Maryland, Kansas, and New Jersey.

Below is a listing of the majority of our team members. You can view each individual biography by clicking the team member's links, or get an overview of our team members by clicking the links provided below.

Senior Advisors                                        Advisory Board                                        Subject Matter Experts


Consulting Team
Management Staff
  • Terry Griffin, Weekly News Wire Editor
  • Minh Hoang - RFP HotLine Production Manager
  • Brenda Leister - Education Events Manager
  • Susan Markley - Vice President, Business Development
  • Samantha Messina - RFP HotLine Editor
  • Casey Miller - Director, Information Technology
  • Laura Morgan - Market Intelligence Manager
  • Annie Orenzoff - Director, Business Development
  • Edward Quirke - Business Manager
  • Cory Thornton - Managing Editor
Advisory Board and Subject Matter Experts
  • Skip Barber, Ph.D. - Executive Director, Colorado Association of Family & Children’s Agencies, Denver, Colorado
  • Robert Bertram - Of Council, McNees, Wallace, and Nurick, LLC, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Dee Brown - Chief Operating Officer, Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland
  • Barry Buckingham - Executive Medical Economist, Pennsylvania Office of Medical Assistance Programs, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Jonathan Evans - Chief Executive Officer, Safe Harbor Behavioral Health, Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Richard Galicia - Manager, Credentialing, Council of Affordable Healthcare, Mt. Airy, Maryland
  • Jed Goldart
  • Bruce Gorman - VP Public Sector Business Development, Magellan Health Services, Berkeley, California
  • John Heffner - Chief Executive Officer, SemperCare Hospital of Savannah, Savannah, Georgia
  • Stephen Holoviak - Professor of Management, Penn State University, Mont Alto, Pennsylvania
  • John Kingsley Holton, Ph.D. - State Director, Illinois Department on Aging, Chicago, Illinois
  • Stephen Howe - Special Projects, The Children’s Guild, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Gary Humble - Regional Administrative Director for Business Finance Support, Cleveland Clinic Center for Behavioral Health, Cleveland, Ohio
  • Jess Jamieson, Ph.D. - Chief Executive Officer, Western State Hospital, Tacoma, Washington
  • Jerry Jeffe
  • Sally Johnston - Director of Client Performance, Health Dialog, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Rafi Khan
  • Shelia Kochis - Internal Audit Administrator, Franklin County Children’s Services, Columbus, Ohio
  • John Kuenning - Chief Operating Officer & Chief Information Officer, Metro Community Provider Network, Englewood, Colorado
  • Richard Louis - Regional Director, College Health Enterprises, Los Angeles, California
  • Jennifer Magnabosco, Ph.D.
  • Richard Maye, MBA - Executive Vice President of Finance & Operations, The International Phoenix Group, Delphos, Ohio
  • Ronald Morton - Vice President, The Meyers Group, Annapolis, Maryland
  • Robert Neary
  • Thomas Nuttle, FACHE
  • Joe Rutherford - Chief Executive Officer, Mental Health Care, Inc., Tampa, Florida
  • Dorn Schuffman, M.A. - Coordinator, Primary/Behavioral Healthcare Integration Unit, Missouri Department of Mental Health, Jefferson City, Missouri
  • January Scott
  • John Talbot, Ph.D.
  • Kim Todd - Chief Executive Officer, New Jersey Association of Community Providers, Ewing, New Jersey
  • Art Williams - Medical Economist, Pennsylvania Medical Assistance, Office of the Secretary, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Ed Urenko - Senior Medical Economist, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Medicaid Program, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania