Dr. Megan Zappitelli is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a Clinical Associate Professor at Prisma Health University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in the Department of Psychiatry.  She attended the Medical University of South Carolina for medical school and the University of Kentucky for residency and fellowship training.  She is board certified in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.  She is the program director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville which she founded in March 2019.  She currently is the medical director of the consultation-liaison child and adolescent psychiatry service in the Prisma Health Children’s Hospital where she provides psychiatric consultation services for children and adolescents who are admitted for medical treatment.  She is the former medical director for the Children’s Residential Program at Prisma Health Marshall I. Pickens Hospital where she provided long-term psychiatric care for children. In a previous position, she provided inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents with Dell Children’s Hospital at the University of Texas in Austin School of Medicine and provided outpatient treatment for patients at the Center for Child Protection in Austin, Texas.  Dr. Zappitelli is trained in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) and specializes in working with patients with severe mood and behavioral disorders, medically complex patients, and patients with symptoms related to traumatic experiences. 

As a nationally recognized performance physician over the last thirty years, Dr. Mehra currently advises Major League Baseball, political leaders, physicians, C-Suite executives, former National Football League players, on sensitive matters of stress, peak performance, relationships, family, substance abuse, business/financial pressures and workplace safety. He is a certified instructor in Mental Health First Aid thru the National Council of Behavioral Health.

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Dr. Mehra is the CEO and Chief Physician Executive of the National Center for Performance Health (NCPH), a Florida based, national healthcare organization focused on improving human performance at work, home, school, and in athletics. Current NCPH clients include corporations, non-profits, academic institutions, collegiate athletic departments and individual families. Dr. Mehra is a dual board- certified physician and a former Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. He works in and has extensively volunteered in the local and statewide foster care system in Florida. In May of 2018, Dr. Mehra gave the medical keynote address for “Beyond the Physical: A Symposium on Mental Health and Sports” in Atlanta, GA. This event garnered national attention and was sponsored by the National Football League, NFL-Players Association and Cigna.

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Meg is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and workplace mental health consultant, specializing in trauma, burnout, and relationships. She has provided education to organizations on topics such as psychological safety, DEI & mental health, burnout, and trauma in the workplace. Currently pursuing her doctorate in Human & Organizational Psychology at Touro University, Meg is passionate about understanding human behavior in professional settings and working to break down the stigma around mental health.

Since joining NAMI this year, her work focuses on partnering with organizations to better understand the needs of their employees, build awareness around mental health at work, help create more caring corporate cultures, and provide the resources needed to be more mentally well.

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Dave Stafford is the retired Chief Human Resources Officer for Michelin North America and the former Chief Technology Officer for Michelin North America.

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He joined Michelin in 1984, working as a materials scientist at Michelin’s NA Research Center. In the 1990’s he and his family spent six years in France where he worked at Michelin’s global R&D center.

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Dave earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Materials Engineering from Virginia Tech. Dave is passionate about education and helping those with behavioral health challenges and their families.  He serves on the Area Commission for Greenville Technical College and is a former member of the Advisory Board for School of Engineering at Clemson University. 

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He is a former member of the national board for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and is the President of NAMI Greenville.  He also serves as the Chair of the Greenville Well Being Partnership.

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Dr. Jessica Obeysekare is an attending psychiatrist at Prisma Health and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville. She is one of the program directors at the Greer psychiatry residency program. She completed medical school and psychiatry residency training at Brown University. Her subspecialty interest is within the field of Reproductive Psychiatry, meaning that she works with OBGYNs to treat mental health at times of reproductive transition, such as depression during pregnancy or postpartum. Her research interest is in the intersection of parental leave policies and parental mental health.

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 James has worked professionally in the human services field for over twenty-five years in a wide range of clinical settings. 

He currently serves as the Training and Technical Assistance Manager for Southeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center at Morehouse School of Medicine, the Director of Family Excellence Institute, and as an adjunct professor at Anderson University.  His passion is helping individuals, families, and communities heal and build on the strengths they possess. 

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James received his BA in Psychology from Anderson University and holds MA degrees in both Leadership and Management and Community Counseling from Webster University.  In addition, he holds both national and international credentials as a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor.  James is a member of both NAADAC and ACA, is a board member and past president of APSC/SCAADAC, and serves on NAADAC’s clinical issues committee related to clinical supervision.

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James has authored three books, numerous articles, and is a nationally recognized and sought-after speaker on the subjects of addiction, recovery, adolescence, families, trauma, grief, cultural humility, and spirituality.

Dr. Veser serves as an associate clinical professor of psychiatry with the Greer Psychiatric Residency Program, which is associated with Prisma Health and the USC School of Medicine. She enjoys sharing knowledge and experience with the younger doctors who are aiming to become board certified psychiatrists. In addition to working with the Greer psychiatry residency program, she has worked on various local inpatient units treating people with addiction and geriatric mental health conditions.  From 2013 until 2020, Dr. Veser had been the medical director at St. Lukes Hospital Center of Behavioral Health in Columbus, NC. This was a 10-bed inpatient psychiatric unit that served individuals age 55 and over for various psychiatric conditions. She and her family moved to Columbus from Charleston, SC. In 2006. She finished her general adult psychiatric residency at MUSC in 1999 and completed a fellowship there in geriatric psychiatry in 2006. While in Charleston, she had experience in both private practice and community mental health. Other professional experience includes working in the Asheville, NC, VA Medical Center on a team that served those with SPMI (severe and persistent mental illness).  If there were more time in the day, she would prefer to work again in the community mental health setting. Her philosophy is to find strength in all people before diagnosing or treating any condition. Her personal healing farm includes 20 acres, chickens, wildlife rehabilitation, and a menagerie of other small animals.

Robyn Ellison is a certified Special and Regular education teacher with graduate work focusing on Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities from Furman University. She currently serves as Education Coordinator at Prisma Health in the Department of Psychiatry as well as the South Carolina Mental Health Ambassador for The National Council for Mental Wellbeing.    Robyn is both a Mental Health First Aid instructor and an ACE’s trainer and has been awarded the top instructor for the State of South Carolina from The National Council for Mental Wellbeing.  Robyn co-authored the first SAMHSA Mental Health grant awarded to the Department of Psychiatry at Prisma and was just awarded the second such grant that provides MHFA at no cost to participants.  She is passionate about changing how we talk about, treat, and care for those potentially suffering from mental illness and has trained over 4,000 upstate community partners so far, in MHFA.

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Hilary P. Blumberg, MD is a psychiatrist, the John and Hope Furth Professor of Psychiatric Neuroscience, Professor of sychiatry, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and in the Child Center, and Director of the Mood Disorders Research Program, at the Yale School of Medicine. Her research is devoted to understanding the causes of mood and related disorders and of suicide risk across the lifespan. Her research program focuses on translational research approaches integrating multimodal neuroimaging research with genetic, stem cell, clinical, behavioral, cognitive, and behavioral treatment research to identify brain circuitry differences and generate strategies to target them for early detection, interventions, and prevention. She leads international neuroimaging efforts to study bipolar and other mood disorders and suicide from childhood to older adulthood. She has published many seminal papers on bipolar disorder and received numerous awards, including the International Society of Bipolar Disorders Mogens Schou Award for Research in Bipolar Disorder, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation Colvin Prize for research in bipolar disorder, American Psychiatric Association (APA) Blanche F. Ittleson Award for research in children and adolescents, and APA North Carolina Sethi Mental Health Research Award. She studied neuroscience as an undergraduate at Harvard University graduating summa cum laude, and completed her medical degree, and psychiatry and specialty training in neuroimaging, at Cornell University Medical College prior to joining Yale’s faculty in 1998. 

Dr. Neha Hudepohl attended undergraduate at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, and medical school at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, TN.  She completed her general adult psychiatry residency training at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2010. She was on faculty at Brown University – Alpert Medical School following her graduation and was the Medical Director of the Center for Women’s Behavioral Health at Women & Infants Hospital until 2019.  There, she founded and led a Women’s Mental Health fellowship training program in 2013.  In 2019, Dr. Hudepohl joined Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville as the Director of the Women’s Mental Health Program and the Program Director of the Greenville Psychiatry residency program.  She was promoted to Clinical Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville in 2021. In 2022, she became the Interim Vice Chair of Academic Affairs for the Department of Psychiatry, and in 2023 took on that role full-time. Her clinical and academic interests including perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, perinatal ethics and decision-making, and medical education.