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Dr. Jarell Myers and Ms. Dallas McCance
Dr. Jarell Myers and Ms. Dallas McCance

Dallas McCance is the Director of Programs for the Center for Health Sciences and Adjunct Faculty at Oklahoma State University. For more than two decades she has worked in the public health and prevention sector. Her work has a special focus on improving the lives of those in rural communities and populations disproportionately affected by health disparities and addictions including veterans, justice involved individuals, and women of childbearing age. She frequently gives invited lectures on such subjects as Improving Outcomes for Rural Communities and Beyond Incarceration: Improving Outcomes for Families affected by Substance Use Disorders. Dallas completed her graduate work at the University of Oklahoma with a Master of Prevention Science and has undergraduate degrees from Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma. Ms. McCance and her husband, Darren, are the proud parents of five grown children and grandparents of one adorable grandson.

Jarell R.O. Myers, PhD is a clinical psychologist, licensed in both New York and Massachusetts, with training in cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavioral approaches to treatment. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and completed an APA-accredited internship at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's Hospital on the child and adolescent track. In addition, Dr. Myers completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship in child and adolescent psychology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in White Plains, New York where the focus was on treatment for anxiety. He used that experience at McLean Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he worked with children and adolescents diagnosed with Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in an intensive outpatient clinic. Dr. Myers has expertise in working with adolescents and young adults with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders and adopts a harm reduction approach when appropriate.

Speaker:
Dr. Jarell Myers
Dr. Jarell Myers

Jarell R.O. Myers, PhD is a clinical psychologist, licensed in both New York and Massachusetts, with training in cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavioral approaches to treatment. He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and completed an APA-accredited internship at Mt. Sinai St. Luke's Hospital on the child and adolescent track. In addition, Dr. Myers completed a two year postdoctoral fellowship in child and adolescent psychology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in White Plains, New York where the focus was on treatment for anxiety. He used that experience at McLean Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he worked with children and adolescents diagnosed with Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in an intensive outpatient clinic. Dr. Myers has expertise in working with adolescents and young adults with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders and adopts a harm reduction approach when appropriate.