Elinore McCance-Katz

Elinore F. McCance-Katz is an American physician, academic, and government official who served as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming her current role, she was the chief medical officer for the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals and a professor at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University.[1][2] Her nomination was supported by the American Psychiatric Association, which released a statement saying "Dr. McCance-Katz has a wealth of experience in academic and public sector settings in addressing mental health and substance use disorders."[3]

Elinore McCance-Katz
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use
In office
September 11, 2017 – January 7, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Chief Medical Officer at Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
In office
2013–2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Personal details
EducationEastern Connecticut State University (B.A.)
Yale University (MPhil, Ph.D.)
University of Connecticut School of Medicine (M.D.)

McCance-Katz resigned in the wake of the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol, on January 7, 2021.[4]

Education

McCance-Katz earned a B.A. in biology from Eastern Connecticut State University in 1978. She went on to attend Yale University, where she received an MPhil and Ph.D. She attended medical school at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, where she earned her M.D. in 1987. She completed her residency in psychiatry at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut.[5][6]

Career

McCance-Katz was on the faculty of Yale University from 1991 to 1998 and later taught at the University of Texas, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of California San Francisco. McCance-Katz was medical director for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs before serving as the first chief medical officer for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a position which she held from 2013 to 2015. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.[7] McCance-Katz and her husband hold a patent for a method used to prevent urine specimen substitution in substance use screening.[6] She has conducted substantial research into addiction, specifically opioid addiction.[5]

References
  1. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to Key Administration Posts". The White House. April 21, 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  2. "Elinore McCance-Katz chosen for new HHS mental health post". Modern Healthcare. April 29, 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  3. "APA Supports Nomination of Dr. McCance-Katz; Urges Senate to Confirm". American Psychiatric Association. April 25, 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  4. Bennett, Kate (January 7, 2021). "Trump's assistant secretary for Department of Health and Human Services submits resignation". CNN. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
  5. Blair, Russell (April 25, 2017). "Trump Pick For Mental Health Post Has Connecticut Ties". Hartford Courant. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  6. Straehley, Steve (May 19, 2017). "Assistant Secretary of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration: Who Is Elinore McCance-Katz?". AllGov. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  7. Gardner, Christopher (April 27, 2017). "Former Psychiatry faculty member Elinore F. McCance-Katz nominated for federal post". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
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