Deborah (Debbie) J. Snyder received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology, cum laude, from Duke University and her Masters Degree in Social Work, Phi Kappa Phi, from the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She received post-graduate externship fellowship training at the Family Therapy Practice Center in Washington, D.C. She has an Accredited Coaching Certification from the International Coaching Federation. Ms. Snyder has been on staff at the National Institute of Health since 1992. Currently, she holds the positions of Senior Advisor to the National Institute of Mental Health’s Clinical Director, Faculty on the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service and the Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine Program & the Deputy Director of Patient Safety and Quality. In addition, she serves as Deputy Chair of the Graduate Medical Education Committee’s subcommittee on resident wellbeing. A major focus of her career has been as clinician and educator at the interface of medical and mental health. In addition, Ms. Snyder conducts research in suicide risk screening in medical settings including hospitals, inpatient and outpatient settings. She helped develop the ASQ™, a suicide screening tool for medically ill patients, as well as the ASQ Toolkit to help guide institutions in the implementation of suicide risk screening. She is an organizational leader on the topics of enhancing staff and trainee wellbeing and reducing burnout. Most recent awards include: the NIMH 2022 Director’s Award for exceptionally supporting a wide range of mental health services for NIH community by anticipating need for support, implementing new approaches of outstanding care and guidance and the NIH 2021 Director’s Award, NIMH Awardee for contribution and leadership to the NIH during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr. Lisa Horowitz is a Clinical Psychologist and was a Senior Associate Scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health at NIH for the past 20 years. She is now Director of the Preventing Suicide Initiative at the University of Colorado School of Medicine / Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Dr. Horowitz received her doctorate in clinical psychology from George Washington University, completed a Pediatric Health Service Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and obtained a Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. The major focus of Dr. Horowitz’s research has been in the area of suicide prevention in healthcare settings that involves validating and implementing tools for clinicians, such as the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) tool. She is also one of the co-authors of the Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention, released by the American Academy of Pediatrics in March of 2022. Dr. Horowitz is collaborating with hospitals, and outpatient clinics both nationally and globally, assisting with implementation of suicide prevention.

Elizabeth Archer-Nanda, DNP, APRN Dr. Elizabeth Archer-Nanda has been an oncology nurse for 25 years, 21 as a board certified psychiatric clinical nurse specialist. She is the founding provider and program leader of the Norton Cancer Institute Behavioral Oncology Program, the largest provider of cancer care in the Kentucky and Southern Indiana area. Dr. Archer-Nanda is a past president and fellow of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.