Mr. Proescholdbell is the Injury Epidemiologist and head the Injury Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit in NC where he is Principal Investigator of the NC Violent Death Reporting System, NC Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS), and NC Prescription Drug Overdose (PDO) project. He is working to build capacity for a general injury surveillance system. He…

Kendall Wood is the SPF-Rx Project Director at the Governor’s Institute on Substance Abuse where she provides project management and oversight for 5 NC SPF-Rx funded subrecipient communities. Previously, she served as the NC Partnership for Success Outreach Specialist assisting the state prevention team in planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based strategies, trainings and technical assistance…

Monique Tula

Monique is the Executive Director of Harm Reduction Coalition, a national advocacy and capacity-building organization that promotes the health and dignity of people affected by drug use. Previously, she was Vice President of Programs with AIDS United where she oversaw the organization’s grantmaking and technical assistance portfolios. A skilled trainer and alum of the Centers…

Admiral James Winnefeld

Admiral Winnefeld graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in Aerospace Engineering and served for 37 years in the United States Navy.  He was an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School and commanded a fighter squadron, the amphibious ship USS CLEVELAND, and the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE. As a flag officer,…

Sarah Potter is the Executive Director of the Addiction Professionals of North Carolina (APNC), and is the former Team Leader for the Prevention and Early Intervention section of the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services. She also previously she served as President of Creative Alliance where she specialized in program…

KC Buchanan (they, them, theirs) is a Queer, macro-oriented MSW, a NC native, and a deep lover of dogs and super spicy foods. They attended Appalachian State University for both their BSW and MSW education and worked within the anti-intimate partner and sexual violence movement in NC for the past 3 years. They recently started…

Gretchen Summerville (she, her, hers) has been working in the field of public health since 1997 and has a degree in Political Science from NC State University. For over 20 years, she has worked at the local and state level in North Carolina and Nevada, focusing on creating healthy communities and improving health outcomes. Gretchen…

Christopher Abert is the founder and director of the Indiana Recovery Alliance. He has decades of experience as an intravenous drug user and lived with Hepatitis C for over 20 years. He has 15 years of professional experience collaborating with people who use drugs, survivors of domestic violence, at-risk youth, and people experiencing poverty and…

Elizabeth Cuervo Tilson, MD, MPH serves North Carolina as the State Health Director and the Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services.  In this role, she promotes public health and prevention activities, as well as provides guidance and oversight on a variety of cross-Departmental issues including the Opioid Epidemic, Early Childhood,…

Mary Beth Cox, MPH is the Substance Use Epidemiologist at the North Carolina Division of Public Health. Before joining the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch in 2016 she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi and worked in communicable disease surveillance in New York and North Carolina. In her current position, Mary Beth focuses…