Dr. Michael McDonell is a Professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University and the Director of the PRISM Collaborative. He is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience developing, testing, and implementing strength-based interventions for people with addiction and mental illness in community settings. He leads multiple National Institutes of Health funded studies demonstrating that incentives can be used to reduce alcohol and drug use in individuals living with co-occurring serious mental illness. He also leads efforts to test incentive interventions in collaboration with American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Trained as a child psychologist, Dr. Michael McDonell is a Professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine at Washington State University and the Director of the PRISM Collaborative. He is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience developing, testing, and implementing strength-based interventions for people with addiction and mental illness in community settings. He leads multiple National Institutes of Health funded studies demonstrating that incentives can be used to reduce alcohol and drug use in individuals living with co-occurring serious mental illness. He also leads efforts to test incentive interventions in collaboration with American Indian and Alaska Native communities. Trained as a child psychologist specializing in early onset serious mental illness and treatments of foster care-involved youth, Dr. McDonell also leads evaluations a program designed to provide housing and substance use treatment for parents at risk for losing custody of their children. Dr. McDonell is also involved in Washington State University’s cannabis related research efforts, as the Chair of the Collaborative on Cannabis Policy, Research, and Outreach.