ABOUT US

REACH Board of Directors (Secretary)

E. Clarke Ross, DPA, CEO and Director

CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD)

Clarke Ross currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of CHADD – Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

Dr. Ross has worked for over 30 years with five national mental health and disability organizations. His work history includes Deputy Executive Director for Public Policy, NAMI – National Alliance on Mental Illness; Executive Director, American Managed Behavioral Healthcare Association (AMBHA); Assistant Executive Director for Federal Relations and then Deputy Executive Director, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD); and Director of Governmental Activities, UCPA – United Cerebral Palsy Associations (UCPA).

Dr. Ross holds two masters’ degrees – one in history and political science from the University of Maryland, the other in health services administration from the George Washington University. He completed his undergraduate studies in history and political science at the University of Maryland. Awarded a State of Maryland Maternal and Child Health Fellowship, Dr. Ross completed a health administration residency at Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions. His doctorate is in public administration (D.P.A.) from The George Washington University, class of 1981. A former VISTA volunteer, he has taught graduate classes for Central Michigan University since 1983 and also for both the University of Maryland and Southeastern University. From 1984-1986, Dr. Ross worked as an Assistant Professor of Public Administration for Troy State University – European Region, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. Dr. Ross is a Fellow of the American College of Mental Health Administration (ACMHA)

Dr. Ross has authored 13 book chapters and 33 journal articles, mostly on the organization and financing of the public mental health system and political interest group behavior.

Dr. Ross is the editor of a textbook on managed behavioral health care, Managed Behavioral Healthcare Handbook (Aspen Publishers, 2001). Dr. Ross is the author of the chapter on managed care in Mental Health, United Sates, 2000, a biennial publication of the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 

He is the father of a 16-year-old son with special challenges.