Alison Sutton-Ryan, DBH, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University, College of Health Solutions. She brings extensive experience teaching in graduate social work programs, including serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Salisbury University, where she received the 2023 Interprofessional Education Teaching Award. At Salisbury, she completed an Interprofessional Education Fellowship focused on care for transgender individuals in rural Maryland.Dr. Sutton-Ryan previously held faculty roles at the University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry and ASU’s School of Social Work. She also completed a postgraduate Veterinary Social Work Certificate at the University of Tennessee. With 25 years of clinical experience, her specialties include perinatal mood disorders, addiction and recovery, and the mental health of medical professionals. As Director of Mental Health Services at the University of Arizona, she developed embedded mental health programs across the Colleges of Medicine, Health Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine.Her research focuses on integrating lived experiences to improve mental health outcomes and program design. She is particularly passionate about advancing the 4th aim—enhancing the wellbeing of medical professionals—and the 5th aim—reducing health disparities.