Michelle Staples-Horne

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #174e86; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Michelle Staples-Horne, MD, MPH</span></strong><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #174e86; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">, MS,</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #174e86; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> is Medical Director for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. She received her MD from Morehouse School of Medicine and MPH from Emory University. She has led healthcare reform for incarcerated youth across Georgia and nationally, and is a past president of the American College of Correctional Physicians. She has authored over 25 scientific publications and received awards the American College of Correctional Physicians' Armond Start Award in 2013, the NCCHC's Bernard P. Harrison Award in 2016, and the American Correctional Association's E. R. Cass Award in 2023.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #174e86; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Elizabeth S. Barnert, MD, MPH, MS</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #174e86; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">, is a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at UCLA. Her research and clinical practice focus on youth impacted by the juvenile legal system. She has led NIH- and foundation-funded studies on youth reentry, DNA-based reunification, and structural drivers of incarceration. Dr. Barnert is a juvenile hall clinician and co-leader of the Life Course Translational Research Network&rsquo;s Youth Justice Node.</span></p>