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2022 Election

Delegate Assembly

Shelly Viets (OH) Senior Vice President of Operations VitalCore Health Strategies

Shelly Viets is a registered nurse with more than twenty-five years of correctional healthcare experience. Viets held positions from line staff nurse to Director of Nursing for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Viets transitioned to the Bureau of Adult Detention as the Clinical Health Care Specialist to provide oversight and technical assistance to jails in Ohio. Viets transferred to the Department of Youth Services as the Chief of Health Care Services with medical, behavioral health and dietary services under her purview. Viets is currently the Senior VP of Operations for VitalCore Health Strat egies. Viets now serves on the Delegate Assembly, is the former Chair of the Health Care Committee, and a member of the Nursing Committee.

Myra Lander Walker (TX) Chief, Office of Professional Standards, Health Services Division Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)

LTC Myra Lander Walker Myra has worked for the TDCJ since 2005 serving the agency as a nurse and Manager IV in the Office of Health Services Monitoring and overseeing the operational review compliance monitoring program. In 2007, Walker was appointed to her current position as the Chief for the Office of Professional Standards, overseeing 29 employees. Walker is a graduate of the University Of Texas School Of Nursing in El Paso, Texas, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1975. Walker served on Active Duty from 1981 to 1986 and in the Army Reserves/Inactive Reserves from 1986 to 2009. Walker is currently a member of ACA and has served as a Commissioner on Accreditation.

14. Mental Health (2 Positions)

Joel T. Andrade (MA) Senior Director of Behavioral Health Services Centurion

Joel T. Andrade, Ph.D., LICSW, has over 23 years of correctional and forensic health experience. Andrade has worked as a direct care clinician, expert witness, clinical director of a large state behav ioral health program, and private consultant. Andrade is currently the senior director of Behavioral Health Services for Centurion, where he provides clinical consultation to numerous correctional healthcare programs throughout the country. Andrade holds a Ph.D. and MSW in clinical and fo rensic social work from Boston College. Andrade has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and presented at national conferences on numerous correctional and forensic topics. Andrade is the author and editor of the Handbook of Violence Risk Assessment: New Approaches for Mental Health Professionals. Andrade has been a member of the ACA Behavioral Health Committee since 2016.

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