Staff Bio Information
Director & Principal Investigator Dr. Leff is a psychologist who has considerable experience conducting mental health evaluations at the national, state, and local levels. In these evaluations, he has worked closely with and trained state and local evaluators. Dr. Leff was formerly Assistant Commissioner for Program Planning, Information Systems, and Evaluation in the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, and Director of Planning and Evaluation for the Cambridge Hospital and the Cambridge/Somerville Mental Health Center. He has taught courses in program evaluation and supervised doctoral research. Dr. Leff is also an assistant professor and clinical and administrative supervisor in the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Leff has been a reviewer of state mental health plans for the Center for Mental Health Services and a special reviewer for NIMH.
He has received several R01 grants from NIMH as well as several grants and contracts from CMHS. Additionally, Dr. Leff is a Co-Principal Investigator in the Coordinating Center for two SAMHSA multi-site projects: The Employment Intervention Demonstration Project and The Managed Behavioral Health Care in the Public Sector project. On the latter project, Dr. Leff is the study leader for the component on Adults with Severe Mental Illness.
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