Jim Clarkson, MA, LADAC, Chair Person and Founder of the Via Positiva Family of Companies.  Jim serves on numerous boards and advisory roles to the nation’s leading healthcare providers. He serves as Senior Adviser to BayMark Health Services, the nation’s leading recovery oriented, trauma informed Medication Assisted Opioid Use Disorder Treatment provider headquartered in Lewisville, Texas.  He is Chairman of the National Advisory Board at Ensoftek, the proprietor of DrCloudEHR, in Beaverton, Oregon.   He previously served as a National Vice President with ValueOptions, Inc. (now Beacon Health Options), the nation’s largest private behavioral health and wellness managed care organization.  With ValueOptions, Jim was responsible for enterprises in emerging market areas, managed state substance abuse delivery systems and served as an internal and external substance use disorder subject matter expert.  Previously, Jim both led behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment provider agencies and worked as a clinician for many years.  Jim provided consultation and training nationally and internationally including for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment, the National Association for Addiction Professionals, the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness as well as many other state and federal agencies.  Jim is a national presenter, trainer and subject matter expert in the business of behavioral health and led the National Addiction Professional Business Learning Collaborative, the Recovery Business Professionals Business Learning Collaborative, and served on the SAMHSA Recovery to Practice Initiative.