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Stuart Kaplan, MD, FAAP Executive Director of the North Carolina Child and Adolescent Program

Veritas Collaborative Contact: 919.908.9752 Email: skaplan@veritascollaborative.com

Dr. Joseph Bona is presently the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer of the DeKalb Community Service Board. He is also Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Emory School of Medicine and the Medical College of Georgia. Dr. Bona is originally from Buffalo, NY and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and English at Canisius College in Buffalo, and a Medical Doctor degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He completed psychiatry residency training and chief residency at the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC; and earned an MBA at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Prior to his present role, Dr. Bona served as Vice-Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Emory and Director of Schizophrenia Research at Emory. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and maintains a research interest in psychotic disorders, psychopharmacology, early episode schizophrenia, primary care integration and service delivery structure and policy. Dr. Bona is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of the American College of Psychiatrists, and President of the Georgia Psychiatric Physician Association. He was awarded the Georgia Psychiatrist of the year for 2016.

Dr. Bona and his wife Laura live in Sandy Springs, Georgia and have a daughter who attends the University of Miami, School of Law.

Joseph Bona, MD, MBA Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer DeKalb Community Service Board Contact: 404.294.3836 Email: josephb@dekcsb.org

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