Corrections_Today_November_December_2020_Vol.82_No.6

Commission on Accreditation for Corrections

2020 Election

Health Care (4 Positions)

Kristen Dauss (IN) Chief Medical Officer Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC)

Dr. Kristen Dauss, MD FAAP became the contracted Regional Psychiatry Director for the IDCO in 2017. She later accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer for the IDOC in 2019. Her clinical interests include underserved populations, health advocacy, managing system change, develop - ment of integrated care models and more. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University Bloomington and earned her medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed triple-board residency in general pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child adolescent psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. She is currently a member of the American Medical Association, Indiana Medical Association, American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychiatric Association, and the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. She is a member of the ACA Coalition for Cor - rectional Health Authorities, Juvenile Committee and Behavioral Health Committee. Michelle E. Dunwoody served almost 30 years in both the U.S. Army and USPHS. In her last active duty assignment, she was the chief nurse executive/director of the Nursing Program for the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). For nine years, she led the largest discipline of health services staff within the BOP with over 1,400 nurses and nurse practitioners across the nation’s federal correctional healthcare system. Dunwoody is currently a trustee/board member of the PHS Commissioned Of - ficers Foundation for the Advancement of Public Health (COF), adjunct faculty for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’Women’s Health Doctoral Nurse Practitioner program, an editor for the nursing journal Nursing Economics and was an editorial board member for the American Nurses Association’s Online Journal of Issues in Nurs - ing from 2014 to 2018. Dunwoody graduated with a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Hampton University in 1989 and a Master of Science degree and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Certification from the University of Maryland at Baltimore in 1999. Michelle E. Dunwoody (DC) Retired Rear Admiral and Assistant U.S. Surgeon General United States Public Health Service (USPHS)

Lannette Linthicum (TX) Director, Health Services Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)

Lannette Linthicum, M.D., began her career with the TDCJ as a physician at the Huntsville Unit in 1986. She held numerous positions before becoming the director of Health Services in Janu - ary 1998, a position she currently holds. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and a medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and an Advanced Certified Correctional Health Professional. Linthicum received ACA’s E.R. Cass Correctional Achievement Award in 2011. Linthicum serves as the chair of ACA’s Commission on Accreditation for Corrections, vice chair of the ACA Standards Committee, and former co-chair of ACA’s Coalition of Correctional Health Authorities. She is a past president for ACA (2017-2019).

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