Team
Joe Feldman
- Founder and President, Cover My Mental Health
Mark DeBofsky
Member of DeBofsky Law with practice focused on ERISA, mental health parity, disability litigation
Vice President for Strategic Development, MADO Healthcare; previously VP for Institutional Advancement at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls
- State of Illinois Task Force on mental health parity
- ERISA Advisory Council
- Editor of numerous professional publications
Lisa Gomez
Founding Member of LMG Collaborative Consulting Solutions LLC and former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security, US Department of Labor (leading the Employee Benefits Security Administration)
- Former partner with the law firm Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP and chair of the firm’s management committee, with almost thirty years representing Taft-Hartley and multiemployer pension and health plans, single employer plans, and supplemental health plans in various industries
- Served as a co-chair of the board of senior editors of the Bloomberg BNA treatise Employee Benefits Law.
- Member of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and the AFL-CIO Union Lawyers Alliance
- Fellow of The American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, Inc.
- Senior Advisor, Inseparable
Clare Miller
Independent consultant on workplace mental health strategy and benefits
- Director on Mental Health America’s board and earlier in her career, their director of public policy
- Formerly Global Mental Health Benefits Manager at Meta
- Founding director of the Center for Workplace Mental Health at the American Psychiatric Association (APA)
- Formerly manager of the Center for Prevention and Health Services at the National Business Group on Health
Mark Mroz
Vice President for Strategic Development, MADO Healthcare; previously VP for Institutional Advancement at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls
- Non-profit board experience: Kennedy Forum Illinois, DePaul University School of Music
Eric M. Plakun, MD, DLFAPA, FACPsych
Board-certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher, and forensic psychiatrist with numerous professional organizational affiliations. He is currently Senior Consultant, Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center
- Former Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center
- American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Life Fellow and former member of APA Board of Trustees
- Member of the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare Managed Care Committee
- Plaintiffs’ expert witness on adult mental disorders in Wit v United Behavioral Health/Optum
Sally Benjamin Young
- Retired SVP, Public Affairs, Lundbeck
- Formerly VP, Corporate Communications, Baxter International
- Formerly VP, Searle Pharmaceuticals
- Current non-profit board membership: Michael Reese Health Trust, CommunityHealth
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