ABLE AMERICANS SENIOR ADVISOR
Dr. Elinore F. McCance-Katz, senior advisor for Able Americans, is an American physician, academic, and government official who served as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use from 2017 to 2021.
Dr. McCance-Katz has also worked as a s the chief medical officer for the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities, and Hospitals; and as a professor at the Alpert Medical School at Brown University. She was on the faculty of Yale University from 1991 to 1998 and later taught at the University of Texas, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of California San Francisco.
Dr. McCance-Katz was medical director for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs before serving as the first chief medical officer for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration from 2013 to 2015. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry.
Dr. McCance-Katz and her husband hold a patent for a method used to prevent urine specimen substitution in substance use screening. She has conducted substantial research into addiction, specifically opioid addiction.