Lisa Amaya-Jackson, MD, MPH
Co Principal Investigator
Associate Director of NCCTS, Licensed Psychiatrist and Co-Director of CCFH Research and Training,
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine.
Ernestine Briggs-King, PhD
Director of Training and Treatment Evaluation
The North Carolina Child Treatment Program, Data Program Director for NCCTS, Licensed Psychologist
and Director of Trauma Treatment and Evaluation at CCFH, Clinical Associate at Duke University
School of Medicine.
Dana M. Hagele, MD, MPH
Medical Director and Co-Principal Investigator
NC Child Treatment Program (Pilot)
Dr. Hagele is co-principal investigator and medical director of the NC Child Treatment Program.
She has joint appointments in the Departments of Pediatrics and Social Medicine at University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Hagele serves as a child maltreatment pediatrician through
the family violence program at UNC Hospitals, and also serves as the clinical quality assurance
consultant for the North Carolina Child Medical Evaluation Program. Her professional interests
include increasing access to evidence-based mental health treatment for traumatized children and
families in North Carolina.
Kimberly T. Hawks, BS
Program Administrator, North Carolina Treatment Program (Pilot)
Coordinate all administrative functions for the program and provide administrative support to all
individuals directly involved in the NC Child Treatment Program. Assist with clinician recruitment,
rostering and retention support.
Leila Keen, LCSW
Training Project Coordinator
Leila Keen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She currently provides training and consultation on
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to clinicians and agencies across North Carolina through
the North Carolina Child Treatment Program. She has provided outpatient treatment with maltreated
children and their families. She has also provided training and supervision to therapeutic foster
parents, and therapeutic foster parent supervisors on an NIMH study of Therapeutic Foster Care in a
System of Care.
She founded and directed a mentoring program for at-risk girls.
Donna Potter, LCSW
Training Project Coordinator
Training Project Coordinator of The North Carolina Child Treatment Program, Clinical Social Worker at
CCFH, Clinical Instructor at Duke University School of Medicine.
Rebecca R.S. Socolar, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator for the NC Child Treatment Program
Dr. Socolar is interested in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of family violence. The programs
and research she has been involved with primarily have focused on child abuse and neglect and on parental
discipline of young children. She is the director of the Child Medical Evaluation Program which is a
statewide program to provide medical and mental health evaluations for children suspected of having been
abused/neglected. She is the principal investigator for the Child Treatment Program to bring evidence based
mental health treatment to abused children in North Carolina.
George "Tripp" Ake, PhD
Trainer
The North Carolina Child Treatment Program, Licensed Psychologist at CCFH, Clinical Associate at Duke
University School of Medicine