Adolescent Expert Panel
Carey Haley Wong, JD
serves as Chief Counsel at Child Advocates, Inc., which provides GAL/CASA services to all of the children in the child welfare system in Marion County, Indiana. See More >>
While at both DCS and Child Advocates, Carey has been responsible for training DCS case managers or volunteer GAL/CASAs respectively on the legal aspects of their jobs. She is the board president of the Indiana Chapter of AFCC, and a member of the National Association of Counsel for Children, the IBA, ISBA and ABA. Carey is the cofounder of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis and currently serves as adjunct professor for the clinic.
Carol Ott, PharmD, BCPP
is a clinical professor of pharmacy practice at the Purdue University College of Pharmacy and adjunct faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She teaches psychiatric and neurologic pharmacotherapy at Purdue and didactics in psychopharmacology in the IU Psychiatry Residency Program. See More >>
Carol is a clinical pharmacy specialist in outpatient psychiatry and gender health at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, working under collaborative practice agreements in the Gender Health program to provide medication management and monitoring services.
At Purdue, Dr. Ott is the faculty lead for mental health and gender health in the Center for Health Equity and Innovation (CHEqI). She serves as the faculty advisor for AAPPPurdue student chapter and QueerRx in the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Ott is a member of the Indiana Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board, Psychotropic Medication AdvisoryCommittee, and Mental Health Quality Advisory Committee and serves as an expert panelist for the Project ECHO for Opioid Use Disorders through the IU School of Medicine andthe LGBTQ+ ECHO through IU Fairbanks School of Public Health. She is a past secretary of the board of directors for the American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists (AAPP)and past member of the AAPP Foundation Board.
Dr. Ott is an editor for the AAPP Psychiatric Pharmacotherapy Review Course for Board Certification in Psychiatric Pharmacy (BCPP). In the Lafayette, Indiana community, Dr. Ott is the president of the board of directors for NAMI West Central Indiana and serves on the executive board of the Gateway to Hope Syringe Service Program for the Tippecanoe County Health Department.
Dr. Casey Penderson, PhD, HSPP
Dr. Casey Pederson, Ph. D, HSPP, is a clinical child psychologist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She directs the suicide prevention services offered through Riley’s Child Outpatient Clinic.
David Butterfield, PharmD
is a Clinical Pharmacist at the Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center Adult Outpatient Clinic, where he sees clients with various mental health diagnoses.
Additionally, David serves as the Residency Coordinator for the PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Program at Eskenazi Health/Purdue University and is responsible for oversight of research, teaching, committee work, and clinical development of the residents.