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Jana Cook, MD, PhD Assistant Project Scientist Jana Cook, MD, PhD, joined CCARTA in 2006 as Assistant Project Scientist. She provides training on addiction and co-occurring disorders treatment to a variety of professionals working in custody and community-based treatment programs in the state of California, focusing on the workforce of substance abuse counselors and criminal justice staff. She also serves as group co-facilitator for medical students at UCSD. In 2007, she became a member of the Executive Committee of the Forensic Addictions Corrections Treatment (FACT) Board of Directors. Before coming to the US in 2006, Dr. Cook worked as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Bratislava. She worked in the Psychiatric Emergency Unit and supervised a Department for Addiction Disorders and Psycho-reactive States. Jana graduated from the Comenius University Medical School in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is trained in adult general psychiatry, with a postgraduate specialization in substance abuse treatment and forensic psychiatry. Her doctoral work was focused on the treatment of heroin addiction and her major areas of professional interests are co-occurring disorders, intoxication psychoses, transcultural psychiatry and the use of hypno-analysis in post-traumatic stress disorders. Dr. Cook has 13 years experience in teaching clinical psychopathology and special psychiatry to medical students, as well as forensic psychiatry to criminal investigation students of the Slovak Police Academy. She taught courses on addiction treatment at the Medical School and the School of Philosophy at Comenius University. Jana also worked with the Slovak Ministry of Justice as a certified expert witness in psychiatry. Jana represents the Slovak Psychiatric Association within the World Council of Young Psychiatrists, and has worked on the executive board of the World Association of Young Psychiatrists and Trainees. She has been elected as a member of the Committee for Protection of Public Order for the City Council of Bratislava, and has been active in the community promoting de-stigmatization of mental health. Jana has experience in working with the Council of Europe and the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction as a consultant. Scot Lord, CATC Senior Learning Skills Counselor Scot Lord, CATC, FACT, is a Senior Learning Skills Counselor at UCSD CCARTA. Scot completed the Alcohol and Other Drug Studies program at City College and began working for Mental Health Systems in the East County Drug Court program. He worked as a primary counselor integrating Substance Use Disorders (SUD) treatment with the criminal justice involved clients. Drug Courts are a diversionary treatment intervention which places convicted drug offenders in treatment rather than custody settings. Working within the Drug Court model gave him first-hand experience with the questions and concerns of criminal justice professionals as they relate to treatment interventions. After nearly two years, he transferred to a Proposition 36 program where he was the lead counselor for more than a year.

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