Biography     

Roger A. Boothroyd is a Professor and the Associate Chair in the Department of Mental Health Law & Policy and also holds a faculty appointment in the College of Public Health. He has been conducting mental health services research for the past 20 years. He received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, specializing in measurement, evaluation, and research design. He teaches courses in research methodology, program evaluation, and statistics. Dr. Boothroyd was formerly a Research Scientist with the New York State Office of Mental Health where he directed various federally-funded research and demonstration projects.

He is currently the PI of a $1.5 million contract with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration examining among other issues, how Medicaid mental health managed care impact beneficiaries’ access to, quality of, and outcome of care. He also is the PI on a project funded by the NIH to study of the maximum individualized change (MIC) analytic procedure developed by Boothroyd, Banks, Evans, Greenbaum, and Brown (2000). He is also a Co-PI on an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates. 

He recently completed serving five years on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health and continues to serve on their Nomination Committee. He served eight years as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Commission of Graduate Foreign Nursing Schools during which time he Chaired their Professional Health Care Standards Committee and is currently a member of their Strategic Planning Committee. He is an active member of the American Public Health Association and has held various elected position in the mental Health Section, and the American Evaluation Association. He is a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and serves as a grant reviewer for NIMH, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) and the National Institute for Health Research (England).

Recent Publications

Stiles, P. G., Boothroyd, R. A., Dhont, K., Beiler, P. F., & Green, A. E. (2009). Adherence to practice guidelines, clinical outcome, and costs among Medicaid enrollees with severe mental illnesses. Evaluation and the Health Professions. 32(1), 69-89.

Armstrong, M. I., & Boothroyd, R. A. (2008). Predictors of emotional well-being in at-risk adolescent girls: Developing preventive intervention strategies. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. 35(4), 435-453.

Ungar, M., Liebenberg, L., Boothroyd, R., Kwong, W. M., Lee, T. Y., LeBlanc, J., Duque, L. & Makhnach, A. (2008). The Study of Youth Resilience Across Cultures: Lessons from a Pilot Study of Measurement Development. Research on Human Development, 5(3), 166-180.

Boothroyd, R. A., & Chen, H. J. The psychometric properties of the Colorado Symptom Index. (2008). Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 35(4), 370-378.

Boothroyd, R. A., Della Rocca, T., & Chen, H. J. (2008). Predictors of satisfaction with a county-sponsored indigent health care plan. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 31(1), 81-103.

Shern, D. L., Jones, K., Chen, H., J., Jordan, N., Josefa Ramoni-Perazzi, P., & Boothroyd, R. A. (2008). A comparison of social costs associated with a Medicaid population with psychiatric disabilities enrolled in plans that differ with respect to risk arrangements. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165(2), 245-260.

Stiles, P. G., Batsche, C., Gum, A., & Boothroyd, R. A. (2007). Risk management through the training of undergraduates in research ethics. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 27(4), 153-157.

Barrow, F., Armstrong, M. I., Vargo, A., & Boothroyd, R. A. (2007). Understanding the findings of resilience-related research for fostering the development of African American youth. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North American, 16, 393-413.

Boothroyd, R. A., & Banks, S. M. (2006). Assessing Treatment Outcomes in Individually-Tailored Interventions. Invited Commentary. The Lancet, 367, 801-802.