Michael Champion Md Email & Phone Number

Hawaii, United States

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Dr. Champion serves as the Senior Advisor for Mental Health and the Justice System to Governor Josh Green and helps lead the Governor’s cross-agency initiatives on mental health and justice reform.

Alexandria, Va

Forensic, legislative, and management consulting services that include: civil and criminal forensic issues, risk management, fitness for duty, liaison with law enforcement, legislative issues, and the design, implementation, and monitoring of health care programs and delivery systems. Clients have included state/federal agencies, courts, attorneys, health care systems and executive management teams.

Member of Executive Team of the Adult Mental Health Division. Responsible for collaborating in the planning and development of a statewide system of clinical and forensic mental health services across the sequential intercept spectrum that includes liaison with law enforcement, jail diversion, specialty courts, the state psychiatric hospital, the statewide community mental health network, and alliances and linkages with federal, state and county criminal justice agencies.

Served as Co-Chief of the Adult Mental Health Division.

The Psychiatry Chief participates in overall planning, implementing, coordinating, and monitoring of clinical services that the Division provides directly or in partnership with contracted providers and stakeholders. Assures the availability of a variety of care, treatment and related rehabilitation options and their integration into the continuum of care for persons experiencing a serious mental illness.

Honolulu, Hi

Member of Executive Team of the Adult Mental Health Division of the Hawaii Department of Health. Responsible for developing and coordinating a statewide system of forensic services including: forensic examiners performing court ordered evaluations, a community conditional release program, a team of Forensic Coordinators providing liaison between the criminal justice system and departmental treatment teams, a court based clinician program, a fitness to stand trial restoration program, a jail diversion program, a crisis consultation for law enforcement program, and the forensic service lines of the state psychiatric hospital and statewide community mental health network.Responsible for developing and maintaining alliances and linkage with criminal justice agencies including: the State Judiciary, Department of Public Safety (Sheriff and Corrections), probation/parole, the Office of the Attorney General, and county/state/federal law enforcement agencies.Serves as as the Regional Coordinator for the Western United States and member of the Executive Committee of the Forensic Division of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.

Nashville Tn

Vice President for national correctional healthcare organization with 11,000 employees providing services to 400,000 inmates in 400 facilities located in 31 states. Behavioral health leader for nationwide programs in correctional settings. Responsible for oversight of behavioral health services including psychiatric medical services, mental health counseling, and chemical dependency programs. Member of executive leadership team with responsibility for coordinating behavioral health initiatives with senior operations, clinical, legal/risk management, business development and finance teams.

New Mexico Corrections Department

Member of clinical and operations management team for statewide medical services. Responsible for oversight of psychiatric services, medical-psychiatry care coordination, CQI, clinical policy development and implementation, and psychopharmacology initiatives. Served as a consultant to corporate behavioral health leadership team; assisted with and coordinated clinical and administrative initiatives in collaboration with corporate team.

Concord, Nh

Administrative and Medical Director for the Secure Psychiatric HospitalNew Hampshire Department of Corrections and Health and Human Services•Responsible for the forensic and clinical programs in the 60-bed secure psychiatric hospital•Coordinated service delivery with the Director of Psychology, Director of Social Work, Director of Nursing and staff psychiatrists. •Responsible for coordinating day-to-day operations with the Director of Security.Associate Medical Director of Forensic ServicesNew Hampshire Department of Corrections•Coordinated psychiatric services delivered in four correctional facilities statewide. •Care coordination activities between medical and psychiatric providers, CQI implementation and monitoring, developing clinical programs and policies, and peer supervision. •Provided oversight for and coordination of forensic psychiatric evaluations and restoration programs delivered in the Secure Psychiatric Hospital in conjunction with the Chief Forensic Examiner for the state.

New Haven, Ct

Provided forensic case consultation to the New Haven Office of Court Evaluation located within the Law and Psychiatry Division of the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale School of Medicine.

Farmington, Ct

Staff psychiatrist at Connecticut’s 1400 bed state prison for women. Provided outpatient and inpatient psychiatric services to pretrial detainees and incarcerated females. Served as the psychiatrist for the “social rehabilitation program”, a partial hospital program for inmates with severe personality disorders and chronic mental illness.

Fellowship, Forensic Psychiatry

Activities and Societies: Training and education at Yale School of Medicine and Law School

Residency, Psychiatry

Activities and Societies: Chief Resident- Program in Psychiatry and the Law, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Rappeport.

Special Student- Studies In Law And Psychiatry

Cross-Cultural Psychiatry

Training in cross-cultural psychiatry, Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with Dr. Kathleen Allden

Doctor Of Medicine (Md), Medicine

Activities and Societies: Attorney General; Honor Court Co-Chair; UNC Hospitals Ethics Committee; Committee on Diversity Co-Chair

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology- With Honors

Graduated Summa Cum Laude St. Andrews Distinguished Scholar 1984-1988

Education record

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society Boys State, 1983