Dr. Thomas Ryan

• Provided clinical supervision to Interns and Post doctoral residents.
• Provided empirically validated evaluation and treatment to individuals with significant neurocognitive disorders.
• Evaluated preclinical and prodromal assessment of memory and other neuropsychological domains.
• Continual measurement of quality of life and altering environmental supports to maximize functional gain.
• Person centered care-(PCC).
• Adherence to the Cochrane guidelines.
• Provided assessment and treatment to individuals with neurocognitive issues and psychiatric comorbidities.
• Assessment of risk and provision of recommendations.
• Level of care recommendations.
• Staff training.

• Met with patients and provided diagnoses and consultations.
• Built rapport and guided discussion with patients using therapeutic communication techniques.
• Wrote comprehensive goals and patient treatment plans.
• Collected information necessary for psychological diagnosis by interviewing, observing and surveying patients.
• Developed individual courses of treatment for each patient by evaluating goals, mental health and practical conditions.
• Trained newly hired psychologists on clinic standards and procedures.
• Provided supervision to predoctoral interns.
• Provided empirically validated psychiatric and neurorehabilitation interventions to enhance quality of life and optimize overall level of functioning.
• Collaborated with treatment team to ensure improved functional outcomes.

• Wrote comprehensive goals and patient treatment plans.
• Collected information necessary for psychological diagnosis by interviewing, observing and surveying patients.
• Talked with family members during period when patients could not self-advocate.
• Administered standardized physical or psychological tests.
• Prepared scientific or technical reports or presentations.
• Conducted scientific research of behavior or processes.
• Provided psychological and neuropsychological interventions to individualized treatment protocols.

• Managed program operations and provided strategic leadership for workers.
• Facilitated staff meetings and educational work sessions to strengthen staff competencies.
• Oversaw administrative support staff to facilitate day-to-day program activities.
• Monitored program operations for compliance with policies and procedures, applicable standards and relevant contractual policy.
• Initiated and set goals for programs according to strategic objectives of organization.
• Collected key program data and analysis to support continuous improvement.
• Met regularly with program stakeholders to make program adjustments and assess progress.
• Spearheaded program planning and staff development to promote growth.
• Wrote proposals and reports for general and specific program support.
• Monitored programming regularly to check relevance, compliance with station guidelines and alignment with FCC regulations.
• Evaluated and directed interventions to ensure optimal gains.
• Developed and maintained key performance indicators.
• Collected and maintained quality improvement standards.
• Oversaw the budget and maintained high EBITA for corporate growth.

• Improve policies and procedures through development, implementation, revision and evaluation of new protocols.
• Interviewed applicants and made recommendations for new hires.
• Recruited individuals bringing talent, well-developed skills sets and passion for helping others, effectively building exceptionally gifted team of personnel.
• Introduced new departmental policies and oriented staff to facilitate adoption of changes.
• Crafted and initiated development of strategy-based plans, allowing organization to exceed objectives and achieve optimal results.
• Improved research-based approaches through participation in research and evidence-based clinical audits.
• Collaborated with multi-disciplinary staff to improve overall patient care and response times.
• Maintained records management system to process personnel information and produce reports.
• Maintained communication and transparency with governing boards, department heads and medical staff.
• Established solid relations with leadership and staff by attending board meetings and coordinating interdepartmental information exchanges.
• Created and implemented at the Center for Behavioral Health, utilizing best practices. All modalities and interventions were culturally sensitive and based on empirically validated treatment for methodologies that have been shown to be effective in diverse populations. Key performance indicators were implemented regularly to assess programmatic effectiveness and efficiency to enhance existing service delivery.
• Responsible for directing the overall operations and delivery of services to the guardianship program, Youth Home, and Indian Child Welfare Services. Oversaw and directed clinical services of these programs ensuring quality improvement and providing technical advice and guidance to staff, adhering to Federal, State, Local and Seminole Tribe of Florida's policy and procedures.
• Maintained awareness of government regulations, health insurance changes and financing options.
• Created and developed the We Do Recover program to facilitate Tribal members entering the workforce after having extended periods of incarceration
• Created and developed a culturally based prevention and aftercare program for children and adults reservation wide.
• Established and implemented short and long range, organizational goals, strategic planning, objectives, policies, and operating procedures. Oversaw the development and monitoring of clinical standards, practice protocols, standard operating procedures, and adherence to compliance with all Federal, State, Local in the Seminole Tribe of Florida's policies and procedures.
• Oversaw approximately a $5 million budget required to be allocated judiciously to enhance service delivery.
• Implemented and insured program quality assurance by developing and maintaining systems to evaluate services inclusive of recordkeeping, HIPAA guidelines and 42 CFR into keep the program in compliance related to these laws and issues.
• Designed programmatic infrastructure to meet conformance and accreditation with the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) over a four year period.
• Developed and maintained a positive, working environment to achieve staff motivation, commitment and teamwork in the delivery of quality behavioral health services.

• Saved costs by analyzing and modifying compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programs and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Conducted randomized feedback surveys.
• Analyzed employment-related data and prepared reports.
• Developed recommendations for improvement of organization's personnel policies and practices.
• Provided culturally sensitive psychological service delivery to Seminole Tribal members. The services include psychological, neuropsychological testing with subsequent treatment recommendations to assist in ameliorating various psychopathology and co-occurring disorders.
• In coordination with the Health Department, created, design, and lead a therapeutic program designed to accentuate weight loss and evaluate and prepare clients for bariatric surgery utilizing empirically validated cognitive behavioral interventions that assist in restructuring unhealthy though centered on food and eating patterns.
• In coordination with Elder Affairs, administer and interpret psychological tests for clients who are referred to determine psychiatric disabilities. This disabilities preclude individual's from engaging in meaningful vocational responsibilities as well as deficits in activities of daily living entitling them to additional resources.
• Provide and coordinate clinical staff training and development on relevant topics that will assist in clinical skill building and enable providers to work more effectively with the Tribal population.

• Coordinated and clinically supervised behavioral health staff that provide culturally sensitive mental health and substance abuse service delivery for Native American populations indigenous of Florida.
• Responded proactively to concerns and questions by acting on patient feedback.
• Chaired staff meetings, providing status updates on key activities to clinical management.

Predoctoral Internship

• APA accredited pre-doctoral internship at coastal, behavioral healthcare, a comprehensive community mental health provider in southwest Florida.
• Course service: Outpatient community mental health, including the provision of individual and group therapies serving both children and adolescents that are inclusive, but not limited to substance-abuse disorders, mood disorders, anxiety based disorders and higher functioning thought disorders. Supervised by Jane Zarzecki, Ph.D.
• Crisis stabilization rotation: participation in an interdisciplinary treatment team that provides a therapeutic know you for the children's unit. Focus on the development of knowledge and skills related to behavioral emergencies in the identification of acute and serious psychopathology. Duties included individual t and family therapy with interventions designed facilitate appropriate continuum of care. This rotation was supervised by Cheryl LaFlame, Psy.D.
• Chronic acute mental illness and Co-occurring disorders rotation: The Family Emergency Treatment Center provides assessment and short term crisis therapy for clients at all ages. The focus is on immediate psychological needs of the clients and families presenting with behavioral health crisis's. This rotation was supervised by Carrie Springer, PhD.
• Mental Health Court Rotation: Provide detailed forensic evaluations designed to assess the appropriateness of rehabilitation individuals with mental health disorders and criminal offenses to diversionary programs aimed at reducing incarceration of those with mental health needs. This innovative programs which designed to reduce overcrowding in the Sarasota jail system to provide an opportunity for mental health service delivery to those who may not have accessed such services in the past. This rotation with supervised by Carrie Springer, Ph.D

• 400 hour specialty practicum, supervised by Sema Eichler, PhD
• This program focused on the neuropsychological evaluation process to enter integrates premorbid and injury related information with current finding and generation of meaningful recommendations with the focus on improving functional skills and quality of life.
• Duties included completing clinical interviews with patient and caregivers, using a variety of neuropsychological testing methods, writing detailed reports with detail functional recommendations and participating in brain injury rounds and meetings.

• The impact of culture upon verbal fluency in Native Americans.
• Chaired by Kathy Bates, Ph.D, Chet Lesniak, Ph.D and William Henry, PhD.
• Original research.