Dr. Danica Love Brown, MSW, CACIII, PhD; Debra Buffalo Boy, CADCII, CRM, PWS, Dr. Jessica Gregg, MD, PhD; Dr. Ben Smith, MD, MPH; Dr. Ted Hall, PharmD, BCPP

Dr. Danica Love Brown, MSW, CACIII, PhD

Danica Love Brown, MSW, CACIII, PhD, is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma born and raised in Northern New Mexico. Danica is the Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and has worked as a mental health and substance use counselor, social worker, and youth advocate for over 20 years. Danica is an Indigenous Wellness Research Institute ISMART fellow alumni, Council of Social Work Education, Minority Fellowship Program fellow alumni, and Northwest Native American Research Center for Health fellow alumni. Her research has focused on Indigenous Ways of Knowing and decolonizing methodologies to address historical trauma and health disparities in Tribal communities.

Debra Buffalo Boy, CADCII, CRM, PWS

Debra is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Lakota Nation where she was born and raised. She is a woman in long term recovery and has worked in the addiction recovery field for over 40 years as a counselor, peer mentor, clinical supervisor, trainer, educator, and advocate for Indigenous, incarcerated, youth and women throughout Oregon. Currently, Debra is the Administrator and Owner of Multicultural Consultants, Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon Executive Board Vice President, Ethics Committee Member and Coordinator for MetroPlus Association of Addiction Peer Professionals, NPAIHB Expert Faculty for Peer ECHO, and Spiritual Advisor & Board Member for Painted Horse Recovery Center.

Dr. Jessica Gregg, MD, PhD

Jessica Gregg, MD, PhD, received her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, her medical degree at the University of New Mexico, and a PhD in Medical Anthropology at Emory University. She began her medical career in primary care at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), where she co-founded the OHSU Department of Medicine’s Social Medicine curriculum in partnership with City Central Concern, a non-profit caring for individuals struggling with lack of housing and substance use disorders. She subsequently became the medical director for Central City Concern’s Hooper Detoxification and Stabilization Center, and eventually assumed the role of Senior Medical Director for Substance Use Disorder Services for the agency. She subsequently developed the HRBR clinic at OHSU, a low-threshold buprenorphine clinic, and in 2021, she became Chief Medical Officer for Fora Health in Portland, Oregon.

Dr. Ben Smith, MD, MPH

Benjamin Smith is a Primary Care Physician and Addiction Specialist in Portland OR, at Central City Concern, an inner-city health and treatment center. He supervises Addiction Medicine Fellows in the Oregon Health and Sciences University Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and he serves as a consultant on the Substance Use Warmline, a consultation line based at University of California-San Francisco. He completed his medical education at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health and trained in family medicine at Stanford-O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Prior to medical school, Ben worked at a treatment center in Cody, Wyoming, which serves the Eastern Shoshone and Crow peoples.

Dr. Ted Hall, PharmD, BCPP

CAPT Ted Hall graduated from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University with a Doctor of Pharmacy in 2002. He has served the Ho-Chunk Nation Health Department since September 2002 as a staff pharmacist and advanced to Chief Pharmacist in 2009. In 2019, he transferred billets to an Advanced Practice Pharmacist II. CAPT Hall is privileged by the Ho-Chunk Nation Medical Staff as a clinical psychiatric pharmacist non-physician medical provider under a Clinical Pharmacist Collaborative Practice Agreement for Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Disorders with diagnostic and prescriptive authority.