NJHA will host its annual Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Summit May 3, with a lineup of national speakers exploring the neuroscience behind mental health and substance use disorders.

Patrick Kennedy, former U.S. Congressman and founder of The Kennedy Forum, will keynote the program. The Kennedy Forum is a nonprofit dedicated to leading a national conversation on transforming mental health and addiction. Kennedy also is co-founder of One-Mind, which encourages changes in how scientists study, diagnose and treat brain diseases.

Other expert presenters include:

• Patrick Murphy, former Congress member and undersecretary of the U.S. Army who now serves as the distinguished chair of innovation at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
• Husseini Manji, chief of neuroscience therapeutic area at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Dr. Manji formerly served at the National Institutes of Health, where he founded and co-directed the NIH Foundation for the Advanced Education in the Sciences graduate course in the neurobiology of neuropsychiatric illness.
• Jay Lombard, chief scientific officer for Genomind and clinical director of neuroscience at LifeSpan Medicine. Participants will receive a copy of his book, “The Mind of God: Neuroscience, Faith, and a Search for the Soul.”
• Joseph Rempson, chief of the Department of Rehabilitation at Overlook Hospital who also is founder of the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Center and director of stroke rehabilitation for Atlantic Health.

Click here for program details and registration.