About Us

Dr. Beth Stormshak has been a faculty member at the University of Oregon for 25 years. Her research interests span the fields of both education and prevention science, including family-centered prevention of problem behavior, academic risk, and later mental health problems in children. Her work on the Family Check-Up® intervention model focuses on dissemination and implementation in community settings, as well as the development of an online version for wide-scale dissemination in community health settings and schools.

Lisa Reiter has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and more than 25 years of experience working in the evidence-based practice field. Dr. Reiter worked at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina where she was involved in research projects that led to the development of the Coping Power.

Celeste Edman has been a dynamic software executive with a proven track record in driving company growth, culture, and innovation for more than 20 years. A five-time exited startup advisor, she specializes in strategic planning, fundraising, and business transformation. With expertise spanning SaaS, healthcare tech, and nonprofits, Celeste excels in scaling organizations through strong leadership and customer-centric product development. She is a passionate culture ambassador who balances present execution with future investment. Currently, she serves as a fractional executive helping businesses achieve sustainable success.

Dr. Lindsay Crow is a licensed psychologist specializing in​evidence-based care for children, adolescents, young adults, and their families. She has a PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri and is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. She has extensive experience implementing and providing training in Motivational Interviewing for use in clinical, community, and school-based settings. Lindsay lives in Columbia, MD with her family and greatly enjoys long distance running in her free time.

Justin has 12+ years of experience bringing products to market, including B2B apps supporting thousands of users. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Seattle Pacific University. For more information, see www.emberex.com/case-studies.

Dylan Fisher is a research project coordinator with 7+ years of coordination experience on a variety of NIH supported projects. Most recently with the University of Washington, he worked on a nationwide NIMH-supported research study that aimed to implement a lay volunteer delivered intervention for depression in senior centers. Dylan received a BS in psychology and a minor in nonprofit administration from the University of Oregon. Outside work, Dylan enjoys climbing, spending time with his two dogs, Otis and Luna, and exploring the outdoors.

Milagra Storm Tyler has a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Masters of Arts in Teaching. For the past 20 years she has helped develop and evaluate Internet-delivered behavioral change interventions, and has primarily focused on information architecture and user engagement.

Chris Hazen is passionate about prevention and served as COO and CFO of Northwest Prevention Science from founding until the end of 2023. Prior to o-founding NPS, Chris established and grew high-performance teams of technical professionals across the US and Asia in the environmental, health, safety and energy services industries from 1996 to 2018, providing advice and training on preventing human and environmental harm to many of the largest industrial corporations in the world.

Dr. Mauricio is an Associate Research Professor and Family Intervention Scientist at the Prevention Science Institute. She has more than 15 years of experience working with communities to develop, implement, and evaluate culturally competent evidence-based interventions. Her research and practice interests focus on the translation of evidence-based interventions for sustainable delivery in real-world settings. Her research has focused on examining how implementation processes function collectively to influence each other and outcomes and on understanding contextual factors that influence heterogeneity in intervention responsiveness and how this heterogeneity links to intervention outcomes. She is also a licensed psychologist with extensive experience working with families and children in community settings, and she has trained and supervised 100s of clinicians in the Family Check-Up® and Everyday Parenting© interventions in the US and internationally

Dr. Anna Cecilia McWhirter is a bilingual licensed psychologist and graduated from the School Psychology doctoral program at the University of Oregon with a specialization in Spanish Language Psychological Services and Research. She has extensive experience providing the Family Check-Up and Family Check-Up Online with children and families in English and Spanish, as well as facilitating intervention groups focused on parenting, social-emotional skills, and emotion regulation, conducting psychodiagnostic and behavioral assessment, and consultation. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of the Family Check-Up, parenting behaviors in diverse populations, parent mental health and wellbeing, adolescent emotion regulation, and the use of effective observational and clinical tools.

Dane Ramshaw is an educational technologist, with over 20 years experience developing tools and platforms. He has been a faculty member at the University of Oregon for 9 years, and is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Global and Online Education at the College of Education. As a team leader and project manager, Dane has developed technological and pedagogical solutions for K12 teachers, higher education practitioners and healthcare professionals. Dane has acted as technology lead on several large scale research projects, in partnership with organizations such as the CDC, i3, Gates Foundation, SRI, NIDILRR, Oregon Department of Education, Seattle Children's Hospital, Cincinnati Children's Hospital. As a consultant Dane has advised and provided technology expertise for various start-ups, small businesses and non-profits; acting as liaison between stakeholders; analyzing and improving codebases and processes, building professional learning communities, and planning for effective delivery. Dane is regularly brought in to projects to help 'GTD' (Get Things Done).

Andrea joins NPS as Finance & Operations Manager with a focus on budgeting, forecasting and improving financial processes to support the company's goals. With an Accounting degree from Santa Clara University as well as experience in financial modeling, expense management and operational planning, Andrea works closely with stakeholders across the organization to drive efficiency and deliver meaningful insights. Andrea is committed to fostering collaboration and ensuring the company's financial and operational strategies align with its mission. A resident of Portland, OR, Andrea enjoys hiking, volunteering and Pilates in her time outside of work.

Psalm has a proven track record of completing projects on time and with great accuracy. She brings a background of high attention to detail, organizational skills, and customer service from her varied career to the role of Project Coordinator at NPS. She enjoys checking off her to-do list, communicating effectively, and collaborating with others. She and her husband have two young children and live in North Carolina.

Dr. Jenna Stapleton is a licensed psychologist specializing in health psychology and evidence-based practices.  She has implemented the Family Check-Up intervention across multiple age groups.  In her previous role as a family interventionist and implementation scientist, she provided the FCU to families of children entering Kindergarten across several elementary schools with a focus on enhancing the partnership between parents and teachers to promote school success.  The other large research study she worked on focused on families of older children entering young adulthood and utilizing the FCU in the prevention of risk behavior.  Jenna has a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology and a master's degree in Couple and Family Therapy from the University of Oregon.  She currently works as an assistant professor and practicing psychologist in Oregon. She enjoys spending time with her family and the beautiful changing seasons of Oregon.

Katie is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a BA in English.  She brings with her 13 years of experience in managing numerous state licensing boards in the state of North Carolina.  Among those boards was the North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board.  She takes pride in her work and loves to complete a task and check it off her to do list.  She is detail oriented and a real team player and very challenge driven.  She resides in Raleigh, NC with her husband and two young children.  In her free time, she enjoys reading, watching movies, playing tennis, and vacationing to the beach or the mountains with her family.

Aaron Neal, PhD (He/Him/His), is a Clinical Psychologist with over 10 years of experience in teaching, training, research, program development, and clinical practice. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and a master's in education from Teachers College. He then completed his PhD in Clinical Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Aaron takes a relational approach in his practice as a trainer, clinician, and researcher, partnering with people to accomplish their clinical, training, and evaluation goals. His current research and clinical work focus on developing and implementing scalable interventions to improve the mental health and well-being of marginalized communities through effective policy change and culturally responsive clinical practice. When not at work, Aaron is passionate about all things local, checking out programs at his local libraries, farmers' markets, advocacy groups, and artistry offered in Durham, NC, where he resides.