Positions: 
  Director, South Central MIRECC - VISN 16
  Associate Director, Rand Gulf States Policy Institute
  Professor, Department of Psychiatry
  Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology,
    Tulane University, & the Department of Psychiatry, 
    University of Mississippi School of Medicine

Dr. Sullivan has extensive experience studying sub-populations of the seriously mentally ill, including those living in rural areas, the homeless, those involved in the criminal justice system, and those who are HIV positive. She is very familiar with the public mental health system and has expertise in a number of projects requiring consensus development. After completing her psychiatry residency at UCLA, Dr. Sullivan received additional training in health services research as an UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and a National Center for Health Services Researcher (NCHSR) fellow at RAND. She was a senior scientist at RAND for 12 years. AT UCLA, she was Co-Director of the Faculty Scholars Program, she has subsequently served as a design and methods consultant for a number of services research projects. While treatment of mental disorders in primary care settings has not been Dr. Sullivan's primary research area, she trained under Ken Wells, MD, MPH, at UCLA and is very familiar with Dr. Well's work as well as the work of Unutzer and Katon.