Steven Proctor, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of PRO Health Group—a research and outcomes monitoring company. He is also Senior Program Director for Health Outcomes at Thriving Mind South Florida, a non-profit safety net payer in Miami. He holds faculty appointments at the rank of Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Florida International University's college of medicine, and Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at University of South Florida. He specializes in the evaluation of addiction treatment outcomes and has published extensively in this area. He collaborates with national and local agencies to improve their treatment systems through research, outcomes monitoring, training, technical assistance, and program evaluation. He is Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several federally-funded research programs, including a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). He is a Fellow of Yale University’s NIDA-supported Innovation to Impact entrepreneurship fellowship program for addiction researchers. He is an Editorial Board member at Annals of Medicine, and was named a ‘Rising Star’ by the Association for Psychological Science for his contributions in the area of naturalistic ("real-world") treatment outcomes. Dr. Proctor earned his PhD in clinical psychology from Louisiana State University. He completed his predoctoral clinical internship at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, California, and his postdoctoral fellowship at the VA Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, where he received specialized training in the Addictive Disorders Treatment Program.