Dr. Reese is an associate professor at Morehouse School of Medicine where he is Director of the Smart and Secure Children Parent Leadership program within the Kennedy Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity. Dr. Reese co-directs the Pediatric Clinical and Translational Research Core within MSM’s Clinical Research Center. He is the Director of Behavioral Health at Akoma Counseling & Consulting, Inc. an outpatient behavioral health practice in Atlanta. Dr. Reese is also a Senior Advisor to Ichor Strategies, a New York based public affair consultancy where he assists their client engagement efforts and is helping to develop their healthcare practice.

 

Previously, Dr. Reese was a senior scientist and section chief at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A widely published author, he served as a member of the Task Force of the American Psychological Association that produced the report Resilience and Strength in African American Children and Adolescents and he co-edited a commonly used prevention text book, Realizing Social Justice: The Challenge of Preventive Interventions.

 

He consulted with the Annie E. Casey Foundation in their efforts to reform juvenile justice policy and practice in Georgia and nationally and has been a consultant to several institutes at the National Institutes of Health. Previously, he served on the White House Council on Youth Violence. Clinically, Dr. Reese works primarily with a pediatric patient census with a particular focus on adolescent males. His research focuses on health equity as a civil rights imperative.

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Currently, Dr. Reese serves as a Director on the following boards; the Dekalb County Mental Health Court and the Health Promotion Advisory Coalition. He is immediate past Board Chair for Men Stopping Violence, a national training and advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating men’s violence against women and girls.

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Dr. Reese received his doctorate from The Ohio State University. He did his internship and fellowship at the University of Illinois Medical School’s Institute for Juvenile Research in the Department of Psychiatry. He completed his undergraduate studies at The College of Wooster.