Featured Speakers

Peggy Glider
Topic: Evaluation and Assessment

Peggy Glider, Ph.D. is the Coordinator for Evaluation and Research with the University of Arizona Campus Health Service. She holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology from The University of Arizona, with an emphasis on statistics and research design. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Glider has served as Principal Investigator or Research Director on many federal research and demonstration grants in the alcohol, other drug abuse and violence arenas. She has also participated in national panels and evaluation teams for the Public Health Service and U.S. Department of Education and has provided evaluation technical assistance to many universities and colleges nationally, focusing on integrating program and evaluation activities.

Michael McNeil
Topic: Prescription Drugs/ Drugs of Abuse

Michael P. McNeil is the Assistant Director of the Alice! Health Promotion Program at Columbia University and serves as the Chair of the Health Promotion Section for the American College Health Association. A long time member of The BACCHUS Network, the Peer Education Hall of Fame and current Downstate NY Coordinator, he has developed numerous drug-related education tools, resources, presentation, publications and other materials. As former chair of the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Coalition for ACHA, along with having taught undergraduate and graduate courses including Drugs in Society, Mr. McNeil brings a wealth of experience and expertise to his workshops.

Robert Chapman
Topic: TBA
Robert Chapman, an experienced practitioner, trainer, and program consultant, has developed and implemented AOD programs for the inpatient and outpatient treatment of alcohol and other drug dependence. He has developed and coordinated community-based programs on campus and been involved in undergraduate and graduate education of counselors and human service professionals. He is currently an assistant clinical professor and associate director of the Behavioral and Addiction Counseling Science Program at Drexel University. His most recently published works include two monographs in a three monograph series on collegiate drinking. Copies are available at http://www.rowan.edu/cas/cas/resources_pdf.htm

Samuel Lurie
Topic: Transgender Awareness and Education
Samuel Lurie is recognized nationally as an expert on transgender issues in health care and higher education. Samuel has presented to over 16,000 people in 28 states and is committed to helping participants increase their comfort and capacity in working with transgender people. He also integrates personal experience into his presentations, which are highly interactive, engaging and eye-opening.

Susan O’Neill
Topic: BASICS
Susan O’Neill, Ph.D. is a Psychologist at the Student Health Center, University of Missouri, and Director of the Center’s Drugs, Alcohol, and Tobacco Assessment and Assistance (DATA) Clinic. Her research focuses on college student drinking and alcohol problems. Dr. O’Neill’s clinical work emphasizes the integration of motivational interviewing (MI) with cognitive-behavioral approaches to behavior change. She has been developing her skills in motivational interviewing for almost ten years, training in the U. S. and Europe and receiving training from members of the MI Network of Trainers (including Bill Miller and Scott Walters). Dr. O’Neill is actively involved in training college health providers, presenting at regional and national conferences, and education of psychiatry residents and psychology graduate students.

Kevin Hines
Topic: Mental Health

John Kevin Hines is a speaker for the National Mental Health Awareness Campaign's Speakers' Bureau, the Heard. During the past 5 years Kevin has spoken to over 150,000 people about his experiences and reached millions in media interviews. He was featured in the film The Bridge and also appeared in People, Time, and Newsweek magazines and shared his story on Larry King Live, Prime Time, Anderson Cooper 360, 20/20, and many other national news programs.

Darby Dickerson
Topic: TBA

Darby Dickerson is Vice President and Dean, and a Professor of Law, at Stetson University College of Law. Since joining Stetson in 1995, she has served as Director of Legal Research and Writing, Associate Dean, Vice Dean, and Interim Dean.

She received her B.A. and M.A. from the College of William & Mary, and earned her J.D. in 1988 from Vanderbilt University Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and then practiced commercial litigation with a large firm in Dallas, Texas.

Dean Dickerson is the author of the ALWD Citation Manual and articles in the areas of legal writing and citation, litigation ethics, and higher education law and policy. She is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences for organizations including the AALS, ABA, NASPA, NACA, Texas College & University Symposium, URMIA, and the U.S. Department of Education. Dean Dickerson has received Stetson University's Teaching Excellence Award and is the two time recipient of the University's Homer and Dolly Hand Award for Excellence in Faculty Scholarship. In June 2005, she received the Burton Foundation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Legal Writing Education, and in August, she received the Tampa Bay Business Journal's Business Woman of the Year Award in the nonprofit and social services category. She currently serves as Chair of the Board of the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross.