Sharon Morgillo Freeman, PhD, APRN-CS, serves as Director of the Center for Brief Therapy, PC, in Fort Wayne, Ind. She is the current President of NAADAC, the National Association for Addiction Professionals, and the Immediate Past-President of the Pennsylvania Association for Addiction Professionals (PAADAC). She is the previous Clinical Director of Inpatient Addiction Services, Inpatient Acute Psychiatric and Dual Diagnosis units for the University of Pennsylvania Presbyterian Medical Center . Dr. Morgillo Freeman is board certified as a Cognitive Therapist by the Academy of Cognitive Therapy in addition to achieving national certification as an Advanced Practice Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist and senior level international certification as a Master Addiction Counselor (MAC) through NAADAC. She currently serves on the steering committee of the Northeast Addiction Technology Transfer Center Practice Improvement Collaborative. She has a PhD in Sociology and two Master's degrees awarded in Psychology through the Adler School of Professional Psychology and Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She has authored or co-authored numerous papers, chapters and books within her many disciplines, as well as lectured nationally and internationally on the problems of substance misuse, addiction issues, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and chronic pain problems.
Gerard J. (Gerry) Schmidt, MA, LPC, MAC, has been the Chief Operations Officer at Valley HealthCare System since September 1980 and has been in the mental health and addictions treatment field for the past 33 years. He started with the state of West Virginia working as an alcohol and drug counselor doing assessments, treatment and prevention in January 1972. Schmidt has a variety of publications to his credit, including several articles on the development of employee assistance programs in rural areas and wellness in the workplace. He recently served on the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Expert Panel for the National Treatment Plan development, which will shape the course of addictions treatment for the next ten years and has edited Treatment Improvement Protocols for CSAT for several years. Schmidt is currently the Clinical Affairs Consultant for NAADAC as well as the Chair of the Public Policy Committee and has been active in the coordination and delivery of the series of Practitioners Services Network (PSN) projects for NAADAC and CSAT. Schmidt graduated from Fairmont State College with a BA in Psychology in 1971 and received a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from West Virginia University in 1976. 
