Evidence-Based Practice Institute, LLC (EBPI) The purpose of the Evidence-Based Practice Institute (EBPI) is to bring together and serve people who care that evidence-based practices are widely available. EBPI is an entrepreneurial organization driven by a social mission: each service, product, or initiative should both further the adoption and use of evidence-based practices and be financially sustainable. EBPI launched its first service, an online community for behavioral healthcare professionals, in April 2007.  Members pay a modest annual fee to access member-only content created by experts in evidence-based practices.  EBPI’s website, www.practiceground.org, is currently being designed to facilitate peer-to-peer interactions in order to speed the rate and spread of innovation and use of evidence-based practice. Simultaneously, EBPI is engaged in collaborative projects to develop tools that make it easier to implement evidence-based practices, particularly online software that supports clinical decision making and clinical performance.   Kelly Koerner, Ph.D., is founder and Creative Director of EBPI.

Online Progress Tracking (OPT) Collaboration Jacqueline B. Persons, Ph.D. is well-known as a model for the integration of science and practice in clinical psychology. She is director of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, where she maintains an active clinical practice, and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychology at University of California-Berkeley, where she teaches cognitive-behavior therapy and provides clinical supervision to the graduate students in clinical psychology. She conducts research studying the process and outcome of cognitive therapy for depression and anxiety, publishing papers that make a contribution to the literature based on data collected during routine clinical practice. Dr. Persons has served as president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (formerly AABT) and of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (Section 3, Division 12 of the APA)

Cannon Thomas, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, where he is a partner in the San Francisco Group for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy. He is on clinical faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, where he teaches and supervises psychiatry residents learning cognitive-behavior therapy. Dr. Thomas also has expertise in statistical modeling, focusing on research addressing the process of change in psychotherapy.

Janie Hong, Ph.D., received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of British Columbia and spent two years as a lecturer and research fellow at Stanford University. She is currently at the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy, where she works as a clinician and researcher and provides training to professionals and students. Dr. Hong is also working with investigators at the Asian American Center on Disparities Research on a NIMH-funded treatment study aimed at developing culturally-sensitive CBT approaches. She has conducted research on CBT, anxiety, and cultural concerns that has led to several scholarly presentations and publications, and she has been recognized with numerous awards and competitive national fellowships. She holds particular expertise in designing tools for the idiographic assessment and monitoring of patients' symptoms and their underpinning mechanisms during treatment.