I am pleased to be joined on JailMedicine by my colleague Dr. Sharen Barboza! Dr. Barboza has been providing correctional mental health care for more than 20 years. Her complete bio can be found in the About The Authors tab (here). Besides her broad experience, intelligence and common sense, Dr. Barboza is simply the best speaker I have heard at any correctional medicine conference. I am honored to have her as my co-editor at JailMedicine! Jeffrey Keller

I am truly honored, grateful and humbled to join Dr. Keller on JailMedicine.com. I think that now, more than any other time in the past, we are all realizing the impact that our mental health has on our ability to function in the world. For so many of us, we take the “health” part of our “mental health” for granted. We trust our thoughts to be based in reality; we rely on our emotions to adequately and appropriately meet the moment; and we have confidence in our ability to cope with what comes our way. Most days.
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