Our Team

Staff

These are the talented people that keep the Steve Rummler HOPE Network on the front lines of the fight against the opioid crisis.

Alicia House

Executive Director

Alicia House has been working in the Opioid Use Disorder field since 2017. Prior to her current role as Executive Director for the Steve Rummler HOPE Network, she held a number of positions in Sober Living, Outreach, Intake Coordination and Overdose Prevention.

Alicia has been on the MN Opioid Epidemic Response Council since 2020 and current Advocacy member for the FED UP! Coalition.

ahouse@rummlerHOPE.org

Allie Carey

Director of Programs

As Director of Programs, Allie aims to implement program expansion as our organization advances its mission in Overdose Prevention, Advocacy and Prescriber Education. Allie has a B.A. in English with concentrations in Poetic Theory and Psychology.

allie@rummlerHOPE.org

Alicia Haugh

Education Director

Alicia drives our Education program through content strategy and creation, course development, continuing education opportunities, marketing, design, and web maintenance for the Steve Rummler HOPE Network.

Alicia began as an intern in 2017 and came back to work for us full-time in 2019. She has her B.A. in Public Relations. Alicia is passionate about mental health advocacy and lowering barriers to community education programming.

alicia@rummlerHOPE.org

Daniel Kelly

Overdose Prevention Director

Dan Kelly has worked in the field of substance use disorder since early 2023 doing Peer Recovery, Harm Reduction, encampment outreach, and as a Community Health Worker. He has additional experience in the nonprofit space and in the field of Information Technology where he held analyst, business analyst, support, and consulting roles.

Dan Kelly has lived experience with Opioid Use Disorder and Substance Use Disorder, is an overdose survivor, and has been in recovery since July of 2021. He is passionate about his work and excited to serve the community. In his free time he enjoys the outdoors, music, hobbyist tech projects, photography, and helping others achieve their potential.

Molly Booton

Director of Creative Services

Molly is a family friend of the Rummlers. After Steve’s passing Molly volunteered her time to the Steve Rummler HOPE Network and eventually was hired as our first employee. In addition to being dubbed our organization’s historian, Molly’s responsibilities include creative design, event planning and tracking our fundraising efforts. When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. Molly has her B.A. in English.

molly@rummlerHOPE.org

Ashley Hanson

Community Outreach Coordinator

Ashley has a passion for helping individuals and organizations achieve their goals. She knows what it takes to make an impact in the community and environment around her. Ashley is ecstatic to be a part of SRHN as the new Community Outreach Coordinator and is looking forward to working with all of our partner organizations and volunteers! In her free time, she enjoys the great outdoors, spending time with her dog Bear and her family.

Meghan Walsh

Overdose Prevention Specialist

As Overdose Prevention Specialist, Meghan hosts regular naloxone trainings for community and professional groups, and supports our Overdose Prevention Director with supply management and kit distribution.

Meghan received her B.S. in Genetics, Statistics, and Public Health from the University of Minnesota. Meghan is passionate about community health outreach, expanding equitable access to care, and helping others.  

Board of Directors

These are the individuals who guide the vision, mission, and goals of the Steve Rummler HOPE Network. They come from all walks of life but stand united in their desire to change the associated care process and end the opioid epidemic.

Sol B. Ryan

Vice President of Business Development, Riverplace Counseling Center; Board Chair

Sol B. Ryan is currently Vice President of Business Development at Riverplace Counseling Center in Anoka, MN. As a member of the senior leadership staff he oversees marketing, networking, branding, strategic partnerships, expansion, and acquisitions as well as supports overall operations. With over 15 years of long-term recovery, Sol is actively involved in both the Twin Cities and national recovery communities.

Previously, Sol was part of the leadership team at The Retreat in Wayzata, MN for 12 years. He led Sober Living, Online Services, and Alumni and Community Relations. Having worked in the recovery field since 2010, he has held a variety of positions and oversaw much of The Retreat’s growth during this time. Sol also traveled nationally to build strategic relationships with treatment centers and actively taught The Retreat’s model of care.

Sol is co-founder of Recovery Community Hockey, and leads Recovery Nights with NHL teams across the country. He has also spearheaded many other local recovery community sports and activities. He is the board chairman of SRHN (Steve Rummler Hope Network), board member of the NSLA (National Sober Living Association), and Chair of the Mental Health and Addiction Committee of Hockey Day Minnesota 2025.

Laurie Willhite, PharmD, CSPI

Opioid Stewardship Pharmacist, Hennepin Healthcare; Board Vice Chair

Dr. Laurie Willhite is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.  She completed a geriatric pharmacotherapy fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Willhite is the opioid stewardship pharmacist at Hennepin Healthcare, a 455 bed trauma safety-net hospital with eight primary care and specialty clinics.  She works to improve opioid prescribing practices, improve access to medication assisted treatment, and advocates for naloxone and safe medication disposal.  She works as a medication management pharmacist in a pain clinic, helping patients and providers taper high doses of opioids and address benzodiazepine co-prescribing.  She has expertise in toxicology as well, through her work at the Minnesota Regional Poison Center. She chairs the Opioid Oversight Committee, a weekly multidisciplinary group which performs case review on patients with challenging pain, dependence, addiction and psychological issues.

James A. Blaha, CPA (Inactive)

Board Treasurer

From 2010 to 2023, Jim was Vice President, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. In that role, Jim had oversight of the organization’s finance, revenue cycle, payer relations, utilization management, facilities and support services, human resources and technology services. Before coming to Hazelden Betty Ford, he served as CFO of a senior living organization for seventeen years. Prior to his role in the senior living industry, Jim spent sixteen years working in public accounting and management consulting, including thirteen years at Deloitte as a designated national healthcare industry specialist. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the College (now University) of St. Thomas. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Financial Executives International.

Megan Roach

President, Roach Consulting, LLC; Board Secretary

Megan Roach is President of Roach Consulting, LLC, an independent consulting practice. Megan has over 25 years of healthcare industry and consulting experience providing strategic and operations guidance to payers and providers.

Megan works with clients on innovative strategies to improve healthcare access, benefits, and quality via value-based contracting, data-driven population health interventions and services, and scalable operating systems. She has extensive experience working on policy and reform initiatives with regulators, legislators, and industry trade associations, including the Minnesota Department of Health, Department of Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Minnesota HMO Council, and America’s Health Insurance Plans.

Prior to establishing Roach Consulting, LLC, Megan was co-practice leader of a national Medicare and Medicaid service line at Deloitte. She specialized in contracting options with CMS, including Medicare Advantage, focusing on whole person care delivery models and identifying and addressing social determinants of health.

Prior to Deloitte, Megan led Government Programs for HealthPartners. During her tenure with HealthPartners, she developed and implemented Community Health Plan, a joint venture with Fairview Health Services and Lutheran Social Services, providing both medical and social services for uninsured individuals.

Miaja Cassidy, JD, CHC, CCEP

With 25 years in business, Miaja Cassidy has provided expertise in managing risk and building integrated compliance programs that support corporate strategies. She blends her business and legal experience to find workable solutions. She has been a senior executive at Medtronic, Target, Hennepin Healthcare System and recently started a firm where she utilizes her leadership development, compliance and risk management experience to help other organizations. Miaja oversees the development and execution of complex ethics and compliance program strategies that help her clients deliver on their strategic priorities. She partners with executives and leaders to accelerate their performance, drive ethical culture and enhance risk identification and mitigation. Miaja has built a reputation for articulating a clear vision to teams and knows how to gain buy-in from stakeholders. 

Stephen M. Delisi, MD, FASAM, DABAM

Chief Medical Officer, YourPath Inc.; SRHN Medical Director

Dr. Delisi is board certified by both the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Before joining YourPath 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. Prior to that role, he also served as Medical Director of Professional Education, Assistant Dean of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, and Midwest Regional Medical Director for Recovery Services at Hazelden Betty Ford. Dr. Delisi continues as an Adjunct Faculty member of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School.

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.

Pearl Evans

Overdose Prevention Program Administrator, Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)

Pearl Evans has extensive experience in legislative advocacy and non-partisan civic engagement through a racial equity lens. Through her leadership and community outreach, she has built community coalitions, facilitated community conversations to reduce stigma related to opioid use, and has experience in seeing a bill from strategic planning to authorship.

Her professional background includes direct service as a peer recovery specialist and resident advocate, and she brings lived experience to this work. Pearl was nominated by Governor Walz to serve as the Person in Recovery on the Opioid Epidemic Response Advisory Council (OERAC). During her time on the OERAC, Pearl worked to allocate funding for investment in culturally responsive recovery supports. 

In her current role as an Overdose Prevention Program Administrator with the Minnesota Department of Health’s Injury and Violence Prevention Section (IVPS), Pearl is leading the development of county profiles to share data with local public health, connecting with community organizations, and building upon IVPS community engagement work.

When Pearl isn’t working, she loves playing pickle ball, afro beat dancing, and jigsaw puzzles.

Nathan Koranda, BSN, RN, NRP

Registered Nurse, PrairieCare; President and Co-Founder, KOPI

Nathan W. Koranda is a registered nurse in an acute adolescent mental health unit at PrairieCare. Additionally, he is the president and co-founder of KOPI, a Minnesota based nonprofit working globally to connect disadvantaged communities to health care and chemical dependency treatment.

Prior to becoming a registered nurse, Nathan worked as a paramedic in Minneapolis where he saw the effects of opioid overdose firsthand. He connected with Steve Rummler HOPE Network in 2013 and has since been working with them as a recovery advocate. This work has afforded him the opportunity to address addiction nationally and locally through public forums and presentations. His message has always been centered around increasing awareness, reducing stigma, and advocating for increased mental health education for doctors, nurses, and paramedics.

Lastly, Nathan is an educator for the University of Minnesota where he is pursuing a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree in the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner specialty program. Nathan serves as a clinical instructor for undergraduate nursing students during their mental health clinical rotation. 

Jake Lewis

Community Relations Manager, NUWAY Alliance

Jake Lewis graduated from The College of Saint Scholastica with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Behavior. He began his career in the field of addiction-recovery in 2009 being a student in and helping facilitate a collegiate recovery program at The College of Saint Scholastica. His first professional job out of school was in sales but his personal journey in recovery pulled Jake back to the field opening doors for him to work at treatment programs in the Twin Cities.

Professionally, Jake strongly advocates for access to safe and evidence-based treatment for Substance Use and Mental Health. Jake’s passion of building and maintaining relationships serves him well as a Community Relations Manger with NUWAY Alliance. Jake has served as a co-board chair on the MARRCH Communication Committee as well as on the board at PEASE Academy. Jake enjoys swimming, biking, and running, preferably in that order, and spending time with his wife and their two growing boys.

Judy Rummler

Founder

Judy Rummler received her B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1963.  For several years, she worked as an editor for Encyclopedia Britannica and Scott Foresman in Chicago, Illinois. In 1971 she was a founder of The Book Bin, a retail bookstore in Northbrook, Illinois.  After moving to Minnesota in 1974, Judy and her husband Bill founded Centron Computer Corporation, a company specializing in the re-marketing and leasing of IBM computer equipment.  For twelve years Judy served as Vice President and Treasurer and worked alongside Bill. 

In 1986 Judy joined Swenson Anderson Associates (later AdvisorNet Financial) in Minneapolis where she served clients in personal and corporate financial planning for eighteen years.  She earned her Certified Financial Planner status in 1987.  Judy served as Chair of the Methodist Hospital Foundation Board (now the Park Nicollet Foundation in St. Louis Park, Minnesota) and as Chair of the Colonial Church of Edina Foundation in Edina, Minnesota. 

She and Bill are now winter residents of Bonita Springs, Florida, where Judy is a member of the Women’s Committee for Hope Hospice, the Friends of the Salvation Army and the Bonita Springs Historical Society.  Judy is the mother of Steve who died on July 1, 2011 of a drug overdose.  She and her husband Bill have channeled their grief by establishing the Steve Rummler Hope Foundation, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which aims to heighten awareness around the issue of chronic pain and the disease of addiction.

Medical Advisory Panel

Our Medical Advisory Panel is a group of health care providers who specialize in pain management, addiction medicine, and other related fields, who review our education content and offer their expertise to our programs.

Katherine Katzung, MD, FACEP, FASAM

Chair, Abbott Northwestern Emergency Department

Katherine Katzung, M.D. is an attending physician in the emergency department at Abbott Northwestern, where she serves as chair of the emergency department.  Additionally, she is a consultant for the Minnesota Poison Control System and assistant medical director of Mission Detox Center in Plymouth, MN. She recently received grant funding to initiate a hospital-based toxicology/addiction medicine consult service and an ED-based addiction medicine “bridge” clinic at Abbott Northwestern Hospital.  The goals of this program are to provide continuity of care for patients on medication assisted therapies while transitioning to community-based management. A graduate of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, she completed emergency medicine training at Regions Hospital in St. Paul and additional fellowship training in medical toxicology.  She is board certified in emergency medicine, medical toxicology, and addiction medicine.  Her clinical interests surround the intersection of these three specialties, with particular focus on early ED & hospital-based interventions to evaluate and treat substance use disorder, including initiation of medication assisted therapies.

Miles Belgrade, MD

Medical Director, Pain Tele-Health, Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Belgrade completed his medical school training at the University of Illinois where he was a James Scholar and his residency in Neurology at the University of Minnesota.  He completed a fellowship in Pain Management at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN.  He is an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School.  He is board certified in Neurology and Pain Management.  One area of research interest has been on institutional change for improved Pain Management.  Under the direction of Dr. Belgrade, Fairview Pain Management Center was been twice awarded the Clinical Center of Excellence designation by the American Pain Society.

Charles Reznikoff, MD

Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN

Dr. Reznikoff earned his medical degree in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, WI. He completed his Internal Medicine residency, followed by a chief residency, at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN.  Dr. Reznikoff then completed an Addiction Medicine fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 2007.  He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and an award-winning teacher of medical students and residents.

Dr. Reznikoff primarily leads and organizes the Steve Rummler HOPE Network’s prescriber education program.

Andrew Kolodny, MD

Co-Director, Opioid Policy Research, Brandeis University; Executive Director, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP)

Dr. Kolodny completed his medical school training at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and his residency in New York City at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine where he was Chief Resident.  He completed a fellowship at Columbia University in New York and is board certified in Psychiatry.  Dr. Kolodny is dedicated to public health and community psychiatry and works as the Co-Director of Opioid Policy and Research at Brandeis University.

He is also the executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, an advocacy group of healthcare professionals working to end the opioid epidemic.

akolodny@supportprop.org

Stephen M. Delisi, MD, FASAM, DABAM

Chief Medical Officer, YourPath Inc.; SRHN Medical Director

Dr. Delisi is board certified by both the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine. Before joining YourPath 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. Prior to that role, he also served as Medical Director of Professional Education, Assistant Dean of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School of Addiction Studies, and Midwest Regional Medical Director for Recovery Services at Hazelden Betty Ford. Dr. Delisi continues as an Adjunct Faculty member of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School.

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.

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