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Dr. Matory graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois with a Bachelor of Science Degree and in 1976 the University of Illinois, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois awarded her a Medical Degree. She did her Pediatric Residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, followed by her Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship at the University of Illinois Hospital.

She is Medical Director of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana which provides care for the vulnerable populations of Marion County in central Indiana. She provides medical direction for this unit which cares for high risk newborns delivered at Eskenazi Hospital.

Dr. Del Rio Hoover joined St. Vincent Evansville (then St Mary’s Hospital) after finishing a neonatology fellowship at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital. She helped create the Center for Children in 2005 and became its medical director in 2014 after spending more than 25 years in the practice of neonatology.

A 2009 profile in Health Progress, a publication of the Catholic Health Association, noted several of her successful initiatives, including spearheading the effort to get a Ronald McDonald House built on the hospital campus, developing a Children's Bill of Rights at the hospital to ensure consistent and compassionate care of children, and leading a Physician Directive Quality initiative geared toward "painless needles" for all children’s lab services.

Dr. Clements is originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Toledo. He completed his pediatric residency at Riley Hospital for Children, where he also served as a Chief Resident. Outside of pediatric hospital medicine, Dr. Clements is interested in clinical simulation to teach neonatal resuscitation skills, advocating for newborns affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome, and LGBTQ health. He is also passionate about global health, and has participated in multiple medical mission trips to Latin America and Africa.

Dr. Ott is a member of the Indiana Medicaid Drug Utilization Review Board, where she has served as the Chair and Vice-Chair, and a member of the Mental Health Quality Advisory Committee for Indiana Medicaid. She serves on the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) Foundation Board and is a past Secretary of the CPNP Board of Directors. She is a consultant to the Psychotropic Consultation Program for the Department of Child Services/Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, as well as the Tippecanoe County Public Defender's Office.

She is a 1999 Graduate of Depauw University and a 2002 Graduate of Indiana University McKinney School of Law. She worked as an attorney at the Department of Child Services (“DCS”) handling primarily Child in Need of Services and Termination of Parental Rights cases from 2002-2009. In January of 2009 Carey was named Chief Counsel of the Marion County Office of DCS. During that time, Carey also represented DCS in administrative hearings for licensure or other various issues, appeals, and contested adoptions.

In February 2011 she began working at Child Advocates as an attorney representing Guardians Ad Litem and the agency as a whole. Child Advocates is a non for profit agency providing GAL/CASA services to all of the children in the child welfare system in Marion County, Indiana. 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 has presented at State and National Conferences. 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.

In February 2011 she began working at Child Advocates as an attorney representing Guardians Ad Litem and the agency as a whole. Child Advocates is a non for profit agency providing GAL/CASA services to all of the children in the child welfare system in Marion County, Indiana. 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 has presented at State and National Conferences. 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.

Carey is also the mother of four daughters. She has been on the board of AFCC Indiana for two years. Carey recommends anyone with an interest in collaborative law become a member of AFCC. The trainings conducted nationally and locally, and the contacts made through AFCC are invaluable.

She received her Bachelor and Master degrees from Saint Louis University, and her Doctoral degree at Mount Mary University, with study focused on sensory integration therapy. She worked at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital in the NICU, PICU, SICU, neurological units, orthopedic units, and burn units before moving home to Evansville, IN to serve as an Assistant Professor in the Occupational Therapy Program at the University of Southern Indiana. She co-led the ADHD and Sensory Processing Differences Support group for the Tri-State. She is currently conducting pediatric research on sensory integration, sub focus on the connection between sensory processing and gastrointestinal dysfunction.

Susan has a BA in Business Management from Anderson University and an AS in Criminal Justice and Corrections from Ball State University. Susan was a licensed foster parent from 2002-2014 and mentors both foster and adoptive parents. A mother to 13 children, she and her husband Duane adopted 9 foster children: 5 with FASD, 1 with Celiac Disease, and 3 with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RADS). As a previous Executive Director of New Horizons Maternity Home, she has experience counseling birth mothers and their families.

Susan formed and serves as Executive Director of Indiana NOFAS, Inc, a not for profit corporation serving families and individuals with prenatal exposure to substances and alcohol and the Director of Perinatal Substance Use and Family Advocacy for Mental Health America of Indiana. Susan is the NOFAS Affiliate Coordinator the NOFAS network. She serves on the Family and Youth Committee for Indiana’s Systems of Care Council. Susan served as the Indiana Title V Family Delegate from 2013-2016. She Co-Chaired the Family Advisory Council for Children’s Special Health Care Needs which empowers family leaders. Susan serves on several state committees which include Commission for Improving the Status of Children focused on improving mental health for youth, the Prenatal Substance Use Committee which seeks to reduce the number of children exposed to substances and alcohol, the Indiana Perinatal Quality Improvement Committee and Governing Council. She was a family fellow with Riley Child Development Center LEND program. Indiana NOFAS is a subsidiary of Mental Health America of Indiana, who seeks to provide support and services to individuals and their families, while advocating for positive system change a holistic across the lifespan.

She is a Licensed Social Worker with a demonstrated history of leadership working in both higher education and human services. Skilled in Nonprofit Management, Project Coordination, Child Advocacy, Family Services, and Community Outreach. Supervisor and Program Director for community-based services with a Continuing Studies Certificate focused in Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Before joining CHOICE, Sarah worked with IU Health as a Lead Peer Recovery Coach, helping pilot and implement virtual recovery coaching in the IU Health emergency departments across the state. She is a student at the IU School of Social Work where she plans to earn her Master of Social Work and continue with a career focused on substance use treatment. As a person in long-term recovery herself, Sarah is passionate and dedicated in supporting efforts to change the face of addiction.

She is currently earning her certification in therapeutic humor through the Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor (AATH). Over the last 20 years working in mental health, substance abuse and prevention fields, she has worked with children, adolescents, adults, families and professionals serving in a variety of roles including: community prevention coordinator, therapist, substance use educator and trainer. Ms. DeSalle has worked with healthcare, behavioral healthcare and community based organizations to implement substance use prevention interventions for the last decade. Since 2008, Ms. DeSalle has been faculty in the Department of Applied Health Science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University, Bloomington. Within the university, Ms. DeSalle serves Prevention Insights (a center at IUB) as the Director for SBIRT Implementation and Lead Motivational Interviewing (MI) Trainer. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and listed on the National Addiction Technology Transfer Center SBIRT Trainers’ Registry. Ms. DeSalle provides training and technical support with MI, SBIRT and a variety of other substance use and mental health related areas to multidisciplinary audiences both nationally and internationally. In addition to her work, she volunteers on the Board of Directors for AATH and the Cottey College Alumnae Executive Board.