Dr. Steven A. Estrine
President & CEO, SAE Behavioral Health Consulting
I am pleased to announce Dr. Julianne Manchester as SAE’s Director of Performance Improvement and Sustainability. She joins our leadership team with the objective of developing and promoting performance improvement and sustainability measures on behalf of our behavioral health providers.
Dr. Manchester brings an extraordinary range of skills and competence to the task at hand. As a professionally trained evaluator and process improvement expert, she’s also expert in industrial and organizational psychology, educational policy, and leadership training and teams building.
Not only is she the lead author of peer-reviewed publications in Military Medicine, Evaluation and Program Planning, and Performance Improvement, she has also held leadership roles as a principal investigator, program manager, and evaluation scientist at the federal (DHHS-HRSA, DoD-DHA) and state level.
Dr. Manchester brings real world, applicable experience spanning 21+ years in program management, evaluation, and research in public health including environmental health, health disparities, suicide prevention, alcohol and drug prevention, coalition building, and issues involving the criminal justice system.
Her appointment enables SAE to focus more deeply on assisting behavioral health providers to acquire performance improvement skill sets to increase both the quality of and access to care for the most disenfranchised behavioral health populations we all serve.
