Chief of Quality & Clinical Innovation
Connections Health Solutions, United States
Dr. Margie Balfour is a psychiatrist and national leader in quality improvement, behavioral health crisis care, and police-mental health collaboration. She is Chief of Quality and Clinical Innovation at Connections Health Solutions, which provides immediate 24/7 access to crisis care in Arizona, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona. Dr. Balfour was named the Doctor of the Year by the National Council for Behavioral Health and CIT International Practitioner of the Year for her work at the Crisis Response Center in Tucson. She has contributed to numerous expert panels for SAMHSA, the DOJ, and others. Her pioneering work on defining crisis metrics has been adopted as a national standard by SAMHSA, and she co-authored Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System: Essential Elements, Measurable Standards, and Best Practices. A native of Monroe, Louisiana, Dr. Balfour received a BA in Biology at Johns Hopkins University and then her MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cincinnati. She completed residency and fellowship in Community Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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