Eighteen years of experience in military and healthcare leadership with a wide diversity of settings that include Inpatient and Outpatient Behavioral Health, Adolescent Partial Hospitalization, Substance Abuse Rehabilitation, University Counseling Center, Internal Medicine, Operational and Deployment Healthcare. Staff and policy jobs included over five years at Headquarters, United States Marine Corps with extensive experience in Joint Service and Federal collaboration to include serving with Surgeons General of both the Army and Navy, multiple Department of Defense Task Forces, chairmanship of national conferences, federal government working groups and international task forces, I have extensive media and political experience participating in over 100 print, radio and television interviews, drafting responses to congressional requests for information, writing and prepping congressional testimony and personally briefing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of Defense, numerous assistant and deputy secretaries, and members of Congress.

Captain @ From September 1996 to Present (19 years 2 months) Various LocationsDirector, Midshipman Development Center @ The Midshipmen Development Center is a non-medical student counseling center that promotes and enhances the adjustment, well-being, and professional development of over 4500 Midshipmen, and provides psychological and nutritional consultation and training to the U.S. Naval Academy staff responsible for midshipman development. A team of six clinical psychologists, a registered dietician/sports nutritionist, one social worker and two PhD candidate externs provide a wide variety of training, educational, and clinical services to the Midshipmen and faculty/staff to support the mission of the Naval Academy and to respond to the individual needs and goals of our diverse midshipman population From October 2012 to Present (3 years 1 month) Ships Psychologist and Medical Department Principal Assistant @ Sole mental health practitioner to provide assessment, treatment and consultation for the carrier strike group. Provide outpatient, inpatient and substance abuse treatment programs on board the ship. As acting Senior Medical Officer: Responsible for total health and wellness for a deployed crew of over 6000 Sailors. Manage a department of 50 doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and corpsmen in charge of medical readiness, immunizations, supply, preventive medicine, shipboard sanitation inspections, maintenance and conditional readiness. From October 2010 to October 2012 (2 years 1 month) USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69)Behavioral Health Affairs Officer / Suicide Prevention Program Manager @ Policy Adviser on Behavioral Health Affairs to the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Drafted and recommended policy on suicide prevention and combat operational stress control for all 200,000 Marines. Conceived, developed and implemented new suicide prevention training that contributed to a 30% reduction in suicides across the Marine Corps. Prepared Congressional testimony for hearings. Briefed numerous members of Congress, Secretary of Defense, Secretary and Undersecretaries of the Navy, Chairman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Selected to chair the Federal Executive Partners Working Group on Suicide Prevention with participation from over 15 US Government Departments and Agencies. Appointed member of the DoD Mental health Task Force and the DoD Task Force on the Prevention of Suicide among Members of the Armed Forces. Developed reports and recommendations that have profoundly impacted behavioral health care throughout the Department of Defense. Member of the Joint Program Review Panel, U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command. Responsible for reviewing and recommending distribution of over $50 million in government funds for suicide prevention related research. Augment Inspector with the Inspector General, U.S. Marine Corps. Traveled to all Marine Corps bases worldwide to inspect and insure program implementation in behavioral healthcare permeated the Marine Corps. Member of the Navy Behavioral Health Advisory Board responsible for recommending policy and practice guidelines to the Navy Surgeon General; Commander, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Selected to chair the 5th Annual Military Suicide Prevention Conference. Developed and led the first ever expansion of this conference from all invited plenary talks to concurrent tracked sessions with a process that included national and international submission of professional papers. From April 2005 to September 2010 (5 years 6 months) Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, Quantico, VirginiaStaff/Regimental Psychologist @ Commandant's staff psychologist at the Naval Academy Counseling Center. Provided mental health treatment and counseling for 5000 midshipmen (students) at the Academy and consulting for the Commandant and his staff. Plebe summer regimental psychologist responsible for behavioral health oversight of senior students in positions of authority over plebes (incoming freshmen) and counseling of plebes. Conducted numerous workshops for students and staff on suicide prevention, stress management, organizational leadership. Conceived, developed and implemented a fully automated online intake process that streamlined both the triage process and appointment scheduling for the counseling center. Invited to deliver the keynote address at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Washington Metropolitan Area Counseling Center Directors. From October 2002 to April 2005 (2 years 7 months) Midshipmen Development CenterHead, Behavioral Healthcare Clinic and Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program @ Responsible for behavioral health care to all active duty service members and family members in Southern Italy. Directed a Navy substance abuse rehabilitation program responsible for providing initial assessments, treatment, continuing care and after care for all active duty service members with identified substance abuse problems. Managed staff of 4 certified substance abuse counselors. Expert witness for the defense in alcohol related courts-martial case in Frankfurt, Germany. Head of the Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team charged with responding to human crisis situations in the European theater. Member of the Family Advocacy Committee responsible for reviewing cases and determining findings related to domestic violence and child abuse cases involving service members and family members in southern Italy. Founding member of the Command Research Review Board. Developed a local process to encourage and facilitate hospital staff to engage in clinical research. From October 1999 to October 2002 (3 years 1 month) Naples Area, ItalyHead, HIV/AIDS Psychology Division; Staff Psychologist @ Staff psychologist at one of the largest Navy Medical Centers in the United States. Provided outpatient and inpatient care for active duty and retired service members and family members at NNMC Bethesda and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Head of the HIV/AIDS clinic in the Internal Medicine Department at NNMC. Responsible for initial behavioral health assessment of all newly HIV positive service members. Developed and managed a program of individual, group and psycho-educational care for all HIV positive members receiving continuing care at the hospital. Supervised numerous psychology interns in both short term and long term psychotherapy techniques and strategy. Selected as a member of the VHA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines Workgroup to develop best practices in smoking cessation. Member of the National Capital Area Mental Health Alliance charged with developing cooperative agreements between Walter Reed Army Medical Center, National Naval Medical Center Bethesda and the Air Force Malcolm Grow Medical Center. From October 1996 to October 1999 (3 years 1 month) National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology @ Michigan State University From 1991 to 1996 M.A., Clinical Psychology @ Michigan State University From 1991 to 1996 B.S., Psychology @ University of Michigan From 1984 to 1988 Aaron Werbel is skilled in: Defense, Organizational..., Mental Health, Prevention, Public Health, Military, DoD, Navy, Government, Psychotherapy, Clinical Research, Psychology, Military Operations, Public Speaking, Management, Treatment, Program Management, National Security, Training, Public Policy, Suicide Prevention, Mental Health Policy, Policy