Victor Kogler is Vice President of CIBHS. Mr. Kogler has worked
in the substance use disorder field in California since 1971. He
served as Alcohol and Drug Program Administrator of Santa Barbara
County for twenty years and is a past president of the County
Alcohol and Drug Programs Administrators Association of
California. Mr. Kogler had been the Executive Director of the
Alcohol and Other Drug Policy Institute (ADPI) for 8 years prior
to the merger of that organization with the California Institute
for Mental Health which created CIBHS. In addition to his senior
management role, Mr.
Amy McIlvaine, supervised by Victor Kogler, has nearly 25 years
of leadership and management experience. Her primary areas of
expertise include innovation design, change management, process
improvement, and business operations. She is passionate about
mentoring and training behavioral health teams to become
innovative change leaders who are resilient, lead effective
change teams and implement changes that result in
improvements.
Amy relocated to Los Angeles in October 2017. She is now the
Director of several Los Angeles County SUD projects.
Pranab comes to CIBHS with over seventeen years of experience
working in public health. He started his career as a primary care
provider in Kathmandu, Nepal. He also worked in Doha Qatar,
doing public health research and community advocacy. In his
latest position, as a practice improvement coach at Integrated
Behavioral Health Partners, he worked with the LA County
Department of Mental Health and L. A.
Christopher comes to CIBHS as an experienced SUD professional who
has excelled in the rapid implementation and expansion of the LA
County START-ODS waiver. He has held positions in direct
service program management, compliance management, and most
recently, business operations, and he’s looking forward to the
further expansion of Drug Medi-Cal services for the County of Los
Angeles and the network of providers who are saving everyday
lives!
Melissa’s background and education is in Sociology along with her
experience in non-profit work, planning and developing
conferences and supporting a Board and C-Suite level executives.
