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Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH) Faculty

JOEL EPSTEIN, PhD is a Research Associate Professor. He received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of South Carolina and completed his internship at the Houston VA Medical Center. Dr. Epstein’s dissertation examined the utility of computer-generated reports for MMPI interpretation. His current interest lies in the development of interactive multimedia and web-based applications for public education. Dr. Epstein’s first program was Mental Health Studios, an interactive multimedia program designed to educate the public about mental and addictive disorders. The program is now part of a permanent exhibit at the St. Louis Science Center. Dr. Epstein’s second program, ATOD-TV, is designed to teach the public about substance abuse. His third program, Cracking The Skull, is an interactive movie about the brain and brain trauma. His fourth program, The Doubles, in which he developed a substance abuse education curriculum for 3rd & 4th graders, compared delivery via CD-ROM, Internet, Videotape, or Workbook. Dr. Epstein has also been using the Internet as a mechanism to collect data for various psychological surveys. His most recent project was a NIDA-funded grant that developed a substance abuse education curriculum for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade African-American children and examined the utility of delivering interventions through faith communities.

MATTHEW HILE, PhD is a Research Associate Professor and Director of the Institute’s Behavioral Informatics Program. Trained at the University of Kentucky in clinical and community psychology. Dr. Hile served as Chief Psychologist and later Unit Director of the dual diagnosis treatment units of the St. Louis Developmental Disabilities Treatment Center. He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Missouri Institute of Psychiatry (now MIMH) before joining the faculty. A FIRST Award from NIMH allowed Dr. Hile to develop the Mental Retardation-Expert, an automated decision support system to help clinicians treat severe behavior problems in individuals who are mentally retarded and/or developmentally disabled. More recently, he has developed the Clinical/Management Information System for the assessment and tracking of persons in the mental health system (C/MIS) and Initial Standardized Assessment Protocol (ISAP) for assessing and following substance abusers. ISAP is used to assess and measure change by all of Missouri’s publicly funded substance abuse treatment programs and in other centers across the country. Focusing on behavioral informatics, his current research interests are web-based self-help training, internet based support communities, practical outcome measurement and reporting, graphic data representations, tools to help behavioral health staff become more effective, and client-service matching.