Advocacy Vice President, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Phyllis Foxworth leads the Peer and Policy Advancement team at the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA), a national peer-directed organization for people living with mood disorders. After being diagnosed with a mental health condition in early adulthood, Ms. Foxworth continues to live in wellness and facilitates a weekly DBSA Family & Friends Support Group.
Ms. Foxworth directs the organization’s national advocacy strategy with a focus on broadening adoption of peer support services and development of the peer specialist workforce, increasing access to care, and ensuring that patient-desired treatment outcomes are adopted and integrated throughout the entire health care ecosystem.
In addition, she guides DBSA’s state-wide grassroots organizations that mobilize individuals with the lived-experience to have a voice in policies that increase access to care and change the conversation around mental health from one of hopelessness to one of hope and inspiration.
Ms. Foxworth is a contributor to the first medical textbook on The Diagnosis and Management of Agitation providing a chapter titled: Patient Rights, Patient, and Family Perspectives on Agitation, co-author of several peer-reviewed papers including “Supporting Wellness”: A Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Mixed-Methods Investigation of Lived Experience Perspectives and Priorities for Mood Disorder Treatment, published in the Journal for Affective Disorders and is a co-principle investigator on three PCORI projects.
Ms. Foxworth has served as a patient representative panelist at several FDA public meetings and directed DBSA in hosting the first externally led patient focused drug development meeting that has focused on mental health.
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Saturday, September 17, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM CT