Dr. Brittany Patterson is a Licensed Psychologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where she has served on the faculty within the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) since 2016. She has worked in schools for over a decade in various capacities and has specialized in school-based mental health services in underserved school communities since joining the faculty. Dr. Patterson has collaborated across numerous federally and state-funded grants focused on trauma-responsiveness, cultural responsiveness and equity, resilience, and evidence-based approaches to youth mental health and well-being.

These include the HRSA-MCHB Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Networks on School Based Health Services (COIIN-SBHS), the SAMHSA National Center for Safe and Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE), and Maryland’s Early Intervention Program for Psychosis (EIP).

She has also served as a technical assistance specialist to diverse local, state, and national school stakeholders, including grantees of the U.S. Department of Education’s Promoting Student Resilience (PSR) and School Mental Health Demonstration programs. Dr. Patterson’s research, training, and technical assistance efforts are grounded in centering youth, family, and consumer voice in the development and delivery of high-quality, equitable well-being supports and services.

Outside of her professional life, Dr. Patterson is a proud daughter, sister, auntie, and mother who enjoys spending time with her family engaging in arts and crafts, sharing meals, cheering on sports teams.

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As one of the most relatable motivational mental health speakers and suicide education experts, AnneMoss transforms her tragedy of losing a son to suicide into a powerful message of post-traumatic growth. Far from a story of despair, she focuses on the human capacity to grow through what we go through. In 2019, AnneMoss published her award-winning memoir, Diary of a Broken Mind and in 2020, she co-wrote the best seller Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide with Dr. Kimberly O’Brien, now translated into three languages.

She has been a TEDx speaker, featured in the New York Times, Variety Magazine, and interviewed by CNN’s Erin Burnett on teen mental health at the prestigious Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference. She was the first non-clinician invited to speak on suicide at the National Institute of Mental Health and is one of the editors of the American Academy of Pediatrics Blueprint for Youth Suicide Prevention.

AnneMoss is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband. Their surviving son is a filmmaker in Los Angeles.

AnneMoss is her FIRST name. It’s a Southern thing.