Margie Balfour
Executive Policy Advisor @Connections Health Solutions
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Policy Advisor @Connections Health Solutions
Tucson, AZ, US
As a national thought leader in crisis care, I help guide Connections’ engagement with local, state, and federal stakeholders. I lead policy research and analysis, inform strategic decision-making, and collaborate with organizational leadership to advance sustainable, high-quality crisis systems of care.
EDUCATION
The Johns Hopkins University
BA, Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Residency, Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati
MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Fellowship, Public and Community Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati
PhD, Neuroscience
ABOUT MARGIE BALFOUR
Dr. Margie Balfour is a psychiatrist and national leader in crisis care, quality improvement, outcome measurement, and law enforcement responses to behavioral health emergencies. As the founder of MultiPass Consulting, she helps communities and organizations across the country develop and strengthen their behavioral health crisis systems.Dr. Balfour also serves an Executive Policy Advisor at Connections Health Solutions, where she led the transformation of the Crisis Response Center in Tucson into the centerpiece of a nationally recognized crisis system and played a vital role in Connections’ expansion into multiple states. Dr. Balfour co-authored the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System and was a key contributor to SAMHSA’s crisis service definitions and guidelines. As an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, she conducts research to advance crisis care and study its impacts on outcomes and cost. Dr. Balfour is a sought-after speaker and consultant and has served on numerous expert panels and advisory boards for SAMHSA, the DOJ, managed care organizations, regulatory bodies, professional associations, and advocacy groups.A native of Monroe, Louisiana, Dr. Balfour earned a BA in Biology from Johns Hopkins University, followed by an MD and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cincinnati. She completed residency and fellowship in Community Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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