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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.

She received her medical degree from University of Maryland School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years. She is one of 17 doctors at Indiana University Health Bloomington Hospital and one of 5 at Indiana University Health Paoli Hospital who specialize in Psychiatry.

She has extensive specialized training in traumatic stress research among perinatal women. Currently, her research lab recruits pregnant and postpartum women with PTSD symptoms to participate in individual and small group interventions. She works with a broad spectrum of perinatal participants, including those who are rarely included in traumatic stress interventions, such as underserved racial and ethnic minoritized individuals, high-risk obstetrics patients, and rural perinatal women. She is interested in how reducing perinatal traumatic stress may improve maternal health outcomes (e.g. reducing obstetric complications, improved functioning), which can ultimately improve outcomes for the entire family across the lifespan.

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.

He represents clients in the fields of long-term care, pharmacy, medicine, white collar state and federal criminal investigations, trucking/transportation, and engineering. Ed represents and defends manufacturers of various products in federal and state courts through the nation. He also represents professionals and businesses before governmental regulatory and licensing boards.

She has worked as a community leader working outside of the hospital to strengthen community partnerships and designed and implemented the first Community Health Worker program for Parkview Health and NE 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 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.