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Meet Our Speakers

Dr. Stayner seeks to open up authentic dialogue between service recipients, service providers, and community stakeholders guided by a few core goals: expanding accessibility and engagement with services; supporting recoveryǦfocused, whole person centered assistance; and facilitating innovation at all system levels to promote healing, resilience and health. Dr. Stayner has also consulted over the past five years with community health provider partners in Connecticut to create integrated health programs and teams (such as “Health on Wheels”) that provide integrally combined medical, mental health and addictions services to people who are homeless or living in underserved, “atǦrisk” communities. David Stayner, PhD Senior Consultant

Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health & Assist. Clinical Professor, Yale School of Medicine Contact: 203.687.5533 Email: dstayner97@gmail.com

Cathalene Teahan, MSN, CNS, RN, joined the firm as a senior public affairs consultant in 2011. Ms. Teahan is a noted expert on state budgeting, a veteran health care lobbyist, and patient advocate. Ms. Teahan has served on numerous state boards, commissions, task forces, and patient advocacy working groups. She works with the firm’s government affairs consultants on health policy, state and federal funding, and has served as a point person on several statewide grassroots projects. Ms. Teahan is the founder and executive director for the Georgia AIDS Coalition. Ms. Teahan graduated from the University of Hawaii with a master’s degree as a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatric nursing.

Cathalene Teahan, MSN, CNS, RN Government Affairs Capitol Strategy Group Contact: 770.435.5586 Email: cathalene@capitolstrategy.us

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