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Sarah Bernes, MPH, LMSW, MBA

Vice President for Health System Implementation
Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute
Dallas, Texas

Sarah A. Bernes, MPH, LMSW, MPA, joined the Meadows Institute with more than 15 years of experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating high-impact and sustainable behavioral health treatment and promotion programs through training and technical assistance. Prior to joining the Institute, Sarah was the Lead Clinical Training and Implementation Specialist at PRISM in the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine overseeing implementation support to more than 400 primary and specialty care clinics implementing the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) across Michigan. Previously, Sarah served as the Director of Training at Concert Health. In addition to integrated care, Sarah is passionate about suicide prevention. She was instrumental in founding the Zero Suicide Institute at the Education Development Center and served as the Director of Suicide Prevention at a network of federally qualified health centers in New York, before growing the behavioral health program at the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) for affiliates across the United States and Canada.

In her role at the Meadows Institute, Sarah supports the Health System Integration team, providing expert technical assistance and implementation support to health systems across the country. She serves as the lead for existing and new CoCM implementations in Texas and across the US, in both the pediatric and adult populations and will co-create tools, trainings, and reports which serve to increase adoption of measurement informed care and integrated behavioral health nationally.

Sarah received her Master’s in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Master’s in Social Work from the University of Maryland, and Master’s in Business Administration from Marist University.

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