Ashley is an NAHQ Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality with a BA in Psychology and an MA in Sociology from George Mason University. She has over 12 years of experience in research, dissemination, and support to health care and behavioral health organizations, implementing a variety of evidence-based behavioral health interventions. She has served as a Senior Project Manager for the AIMS Center since 2011 and a Practice Coach since 2014, managing diverse training and technical assistance projects and coaching to a variety of behavioral health conditions, patient populations, and treatment settings. She works with healthcare providers, IT professionals, financial teams, and administrative staff in settings ranging from Rural Health Clinics in Alaska and Montana to large urban healthcare systems in New York City and Los Angeles.

Suzy Hunter joined the AIMS Center in 2011 as Technical Project Manager, overseeing the development of the AIMS Caseload Tracker and Care Management Tracking System (CMTS) software applications.
Suzy enjoys working with clinicians, implementation experts, researchers and developers to design and build better caseload management tools to support collaborative care workflows, most recently focusing on data integration with electronic health records. Suzy has worked at the University of Arizona and University of Washington performing web application development and IT project management since 2002.

Youlim Choi developed the web-based care management system (CMTS) for the original multi-site IMPACT study and since then has developed several subsequent versions of the registry tool to facilitate various research projects and large-scale IMPACT implementations. Mr. Choi maintains the AIMS Center websites and CMTS. He has over 10 years of experience in information technology including network, security, and programming. He received his Master of Arts degree in Mathematics from UCLA.

Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and health services researcher. His work focuses on innovative models of care that integrate mental health and general medical services and on translating research on evidence-based mental health care into effective clinical and public health practice. He has more than 300 scholarly publications and is the recipient of numerous federal and foundation grants and awards for his research to improve the health and mental health of populations through patient-centered integrated mental health services.
Dr. Unützer is Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He also holds adjunct appointments as Professor in the School of Public Health (Department of Health Services and Department of Global Health) and as Affiliate Investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, WA.
Dr. Unützer founded and directed the AIMS Center from 2004 – 2018. He was the principal investigator for the Improving Mood: Providing Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT) trial, which showed that patients receiving IMPACT care (collaborative care) were twice as likely to show improvement than patients in usual care. In recent years, Dr. Unützer’s work has focused on developing local, regional, national, and global partnerships that support workforce development and capacity building in primary and behavioral health care.
He has served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the World Health Organization and as an advisor to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He works with national and international organizations to improve behavioral health care for diverse populations. His awards include the Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars Award from the American Foundation for Aging Research, the Klerman Junior and Senior Investigator Awards from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the Research Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Senior Health Services Scholar Award from the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Unützer trained in Medicine (MD, Vanderbilt University), Public Policy (MA, University of Chicago), and Public Health / Health Services (MPH, University of Washington). He completed fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA and in Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Washington.