Staff: Ellen M. George | Teresa Bonner | Diane B. Neimann | Jeneen Hartley Sago | Sara Whitehead

Associates: William P. Massey | Charles D. Terry | Constance Pechura | Bill Henry

Constance Pechura, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Treatment Research Institute (TRI) in Philadelphia, which is dedicated to bringing science to the practice of addiction treatment. In addition, Dr. Pechura serves as a Senior Advisor to Family Philanthropy Advisors and is responsible for program direction for the Bravewell Collaborative on Integrative Medicine's practice-based research network. Prior to her appointment at TRI in 2006, she was a Senior Program Officer at The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation from 1998 until 2006. She served as the Portfolio Leader for the Human Capital Portfolio, which makes investments to improve the quality and diversity of the workforce and leadership in health and health care (about $90 million per year). Dr. Pechura was the responsible program officer for the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, RWJ Community Health Leaders Program, RWJ Health Policy Fellowships, and Depression in Primary Care Program. In addition, Dr. Pechura designed and implemented projects in a variety of grantmaking areas, including addiction treatment and mental health.

From 1988 until 1998, Dr. Pechura was a member of the senior staff at the Institute of Medicine/ National Academies of Science where she directed a number of studies in health sciences policy, neuroscience and behavioral health, and veterans' health as a Senior Staff Officer from 1988 to 1993. She served as Deputy Director (1993 to 1995) and Director (1995 to 1998) of the Institute's Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health. In addition, she taught health policy in the Stanford in Washington Program from 1993 to 1998, and taught anatomy and neuroscience courses at George Washington University Medical School and the F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Pechura earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Ph.D. in Anatomy, with a specialization in Neuroscience, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Awards include a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, an Outstanding Teaching award from the USUHS Medical School Class of 1988, the National Research Council's Special Achievement Award in 1993.