CPS Director, Joseph Parks, M.D.
Dr. Parks serves as the Chief Clinical Officer for the Department of Mental Health as well as the Director for the Division of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services for the State of Missouri Department of Mental Health in Jefferson City. He also serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Missouri Institute of Mental Health and University of Missouri in Columbia. He serves as President of the Medical Director’s Council of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. He practices psychiatry on an outpatient basis at Family Health Center, a federally funded community health center established to expand services to uninsured and underinsured patients in the Columbia area.
Dr. Parks has authored or coauthored a number of original articles, monographs, technical papers, and reviews on implementation of Evidence Based Medicine and Pharmacy Utilization Management and behavioral treatment programs.
His work has appeared in several journals (Journal of
Organizational Behavior, Journal of Psychiatric
Practices, Psychiatry Quarterly,
Manual of Clinical Emergency Psychiatry, Behavioral Interviews,
Hospital
and Community Psychiatry, and Advanced Studies in Nursing.
He was awarded the 2006 American Psychiatric Association Bronze Achievement
Award
for a program controlling pharmacy costs by improving prescribing practices.
