Meet the Experts
The hub team and panelists for the OUD ECHO Prescribers & Dispensers track.
Dean Babcock, MSW, LCSW, LCAC
Dean is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor and has spent his professional career working in health care and mental health care systems in the Indianapolis area.
Carey Haley, JD
Carey is a 1999 graduate of DePauw University and a 2002 graduate of Indiana University McKinney School of Law. She is a family law attorney at Ruppert & Schaefer, P.C. From 2011 to 2024 she served as Chief Counsel at Child Advocates, Inc., a nonprofit agency serving youth in the child welfare system. From 2002–2011 she worked as an attorney at the Indiana Department of Child Services handling primarily Child in Need of Services and Termination of Parental Rights cases, and was the Chief Counsel of the Marion County Office from 2009–2011. Carey is the co-founder of the Child Advocacy Clinic at the IU McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis and served as an adjunct professor for the clinic from 2016 until 2022.
Christopher Suelzer, MD
Dr. Suelzer obtained his undergraduate degree at Purdue University before completing an internal medicine residency and fellowship at IU School of Medicine. He has worked as both a primary care and addiction medicine physician while also serving as Chief of Primary Care at the Indianapolis VAMC before retiring. He continues to work at the Indianapolis VA in their Substance Use Disorders Clinic, noting that there is no more professionally gratifying experience than to see individuals achieve recovery from drugs and alcohol.
David Butterfield, PharmD
David 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.
Olawale Ojo, MD, MSC
Dr. Ojo earned his medical degree at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He completed his general psychiatry residency at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. He is ABPN board certified in general psychiatry and trained at Indiana University in the Addiction Psychiatry program. He is currently the Director of the Addictions program at Methodist Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Andrew Saunders, MSW, LCSW, LCAC, CADAC IV, ICOGS
Andrew is a licensed clinician with experience across substance use disorder treatment, co-occurring mental health care, outpatient and residential settings, and integrated behavioral health systems. He currently practices as an independent therapist with Evermore Therapy & Wellness Group and has worked with the Indiana Addictions Issues Coalition through Mental Health America of Indiana on policy, systems-level initiatives, and recovery-oriented programming. Andrew brings a strong background in assessment, group facilitation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and public health work, including participation in opioid fatality review and community-based education efforts. He also serves in nonprofit governance roles within recovery-focused organizations. In addition to his professional training, Andrew draws on lived experience in addiction and long-term recovery, informing a practical, person-centered, and stigma-reducing approach to integrated behavioral health care.
