Dr. Stephen Delisi, MD

CMO, Faculty, Co-Director

Hazelden Betty Ford, YourPath, UC-Irvine TNT-PC-TEAM

Dr. Delisi is board certified by both the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for YourPath and President of YourPath Care, PLLC. He is also the Co-Associate Director for the UC-Irvine School of Medicine Train New Trainers (TNT) Primary Care – Training and Education in Addiction Medicine (PC-TEAM) Fellowship. Dr. Delisi is also a long-term board member and Medical Director for the non-profit Steve Rummler Hope Network. Before joining the YourPath team as CMO and President, Dr. Delisi had served as a psychiatrist for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation from 2005-2023. During his time with Hazelden, Dr. Delisi most recently served as Medical Director, Enterprise Solutions and Medical Education Services. Prior to that role, he was Medical Director of Professional Education, Training & Consultation, Assistant Dean of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School, and Midwest Regional Medical Director for Recovery Services at Hazelden Betty Ford. Dr. Delisi continues as an Adjunct Professor at the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School and as an On-call Medical Trainer. Prior to joining Hazelden Betty Ford, he held positions as Director of Psychiatric Services at Rush Behavioral Health-DuPage and Associate Director of the Psychiatric Residency Program at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Delisi is a nationally recognized leader, speaker, and consultant on the use of evidence-based, integrated treatments for co-occurring and substance use disorders, as well as the risk conferred by the epigenetic effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma.

Philomena Kebec, J.D.

Chief Judge

Sokaogon Chippewa Tribal Court

Philomena Kebec, J.D., an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa currently serves as the Chief Judge of the Sokaogon Chippewa Community Tribal Court and an attorney at Osterby Law Office, LLC, where she represents public-defender eligible litigants in state criminal cases and civil clients in tribal courts. Philomena teaches Federal Indian Law at the University of Minnesota Duluth Masters in Tribal Government and Administration Program and is a DrPH student and Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Along with Aurora Conley, she founded Gwayakobimaadiziwin Bad River Harm Reduction in 2015. 

Michael Elkin, LMFT

Michael Elkin, LMFT, Internal Family Systems

Michael Elkin has been struggling with addiction for over fifty years. After a brief adventure with heroin while still in high school in the 1950's, he found that his experiences as a marginal jazz musician qualified him to practice psychotherapy with people colonized by drugs. Initially his only resources in this project were the skills he acquired as a minor league pool and poker hustler, but he was fortunate to find mentors who taught him to add strategic and structural family therapy and hypnosis to his repertoire. In 1984 he published Families Under the Influence (Norton, still in print) and began teaching systemic approaches to addiction throughout the US and Europe. In 1995 he discovered Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems therapy model, which he considers to be the most effective tool for healing currently available. He is dedicated to helping healers use this model effectively.