Dr. McLellan is the Chairman and co-founder of the Treatment Research Institute (TRI). He was Science Advisor and Deputy Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy approach to illicit drug use. Dr McLellan led the design and implementation of the President’s National Drug Control Strategy. DR.McLellan is the recipient of distinguished awards including the Life Achievement Awards of the American and British Societies of Addiction Medicine: the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Innovator Award; and awards for Distinguished Contribution to Addiction Medicine from the Swedish and Italian Medical Associations. Dr McLellan was instrumental in introducing the Addiction Severity Index and the Treatment Servisces Review, the most widely used assesement instruments in the worls.

Dr. Meyers is the Creator of CRAFT and has been in the addiction field for 37 years. He is the director of Robert J. Meyers Associates and a Research Associate Professor Emiretus in Psycology at the University of New Mexico’s Center on Alcoholism. Substance Abuse and Addiction. Dr. Meyers developed Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT), an evidence-based protocol that has been shown to be superior to the taditional interventions in a rondomized clinical trials. Dr. Meyers and CRAFT were featured in the Enemy Award-winning HBO Addiction Series. Dr. Meyers is an internationally asslaimed speaker and trainer.

Kimbery C. Kirby,Ph.D. is apsychologist specialization in behavior analysis an behavioral pharmacology. She received her doctorate from the University of Kansas and completed postdoctoral training at Duke University and the John Hopkins School of medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and on the Executive Comittee for the division on Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse. She is also a full time member of the College on Problems of Drug Dependance and the Association for behavior Analysis. She has focused her research on behavioral treatments that improve motivation for recovery and addressed issues related to drug abuse and the family, and the involvement of religious communities in addiction recovery. She has more than 70 publications in professional books, meeting proceedings, and journals.