Taskforce Board Members

Kimberly Juroviesky is a retired Nurse Practitioner and Nurse Midwife who trained at Columbia University and The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She was injured on active duty while in the USAF and developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome which unfortunately, forced her to retire from her career early. Kimberly began getting Ketamine Infusions in 2015 as part of a research study. While they don’t make her pain levels disappear, they do bring them down to what she describes as “liveable levels”. Kimberly has always been driven to help people so she started up a Facebook group to support patients in their Ketamine journeys. Kimberly also started a second Facebook group to allow Ketamine providers to connect with one another. Kimberly also wrote a book to help patients to know what to expect during their infusions called Ketamine Infusions: A Patient’s Guide. Kimberly has found a new passion in being an advocate for the use of Ketamine to treat both mental health and pain diagnoses. She advocates for and talks with both patients and providers around the globe on a daily basis.

Dr. Wells is a licensed, board-certified anesthesiologist who is experienced in providing anesthesia in multiple settings and types of cases. Her passion is helping patients achieve optimal outcomes in a safe, professional and comfortable manner.

Dr. Wells started and operates Wells Medicine in Houston, Texas - one of the first clinics dedicated to providing Ketamine Infusions for psychiatric and pain treatments including depression, anxiety, CRPS and other conditions. She collaborates on ongoing research and has contributed to best practices development, published studies and lectures. She continues to work for the advancement of effective treatments for the benefits of patients in need. Dr. Wells holds degrees from Swarthmore College and Baylor College of Medicine. She trained at Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard University. She is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists, the Texas Medical Association, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the American Association of Physician Leaders.

Carlene MacMillan, MD is Medical Director at Osmind, the leading software solution for ketamine clinics and treatment-resistant mental health. She is also the co-Founder and CEO of Brooklyn Minds Psychiatry, a multidisciplinary team-based multi-site practice in the NYC Region. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and completed her adult psychiatry residency and child and adolescent fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. Dr. Macmillan has a long-standing interest in helping individuals with severe, persistent and complex mental illness. Prior to relocating to NYC, she was an attending on the Trauma and Dissociative Unit at McLean Hospital. In NY, she has held a faculty position at the NYU Langone School of Medicine and was the founding Medical Director of the Ellenhorn NYC Private Assertive Community Treatment Team, a leader in community integration and championing "hospitals without walls". Her practice was an early adopter of providing Esketamine and obtaining insurance coverage for it. She has had extensive experience in advocating for increased insurance-based access to psychiatric services at the local and national level. As part of her work for a non-profit called Emotions Matter, she drafted a guide for clinicians and families to use to obtain Single Case Agreements for coverage of evidence-based treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder. She is an active member of the Clinical Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Society Insurance Committee, which fosters working relationships with payers and develops ideal policies for coverage of TMS. These experiences can translate well into advocating for adequate coverage of interventions such as ketamine infusions for mental health indications. Dr.MacMillan also is working with payers around innovative Value Based Care payment models which lend themselves well to many of the psychedelic medicine interventions Dr.MacMillan also serves as the Co-Chair of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consumer Issues Committee which publishes psychoeducational resources for patients and families on a wide range of mental health topics. She is a former member of the APA Assembly and was very active in the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society throughout residency and fellowship prior to relocating to New York several years ago.

Jessica Shepley, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FNP-BC, CRNI, is a dual-board-certified Psychiatric and Family Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Registered Infusion Nurse. Since 2016, she has worked in psychiatry, administering ketamine infusions, and in 2020 helped cofound Cornerstone Psychiatric Care, which continues to utilize both ketamine and Esketamine (Spravato). Jessica is passionate about ketamine therapy and has witnessed it significantly improve the lives of so many of her patients. In 2022 after first-hand experience dealing with barriers and challenges with insurance coverage for ketamine treatment, Jessica helped cofound Focal Point. She and her cofounders continue to work with practices B2B to provide the tools for improving all medical patient-provider-payer platforming. Her mission is to mentor and encourage other ketamine providers to utilize insurance coverage while improving access to this lifesaving treatment. She is an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists & Practitioners (ASKP), the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, and the Infusion Nurses Society.

Matt Carr was medically-retired from the US Air Force at the rank of Captain in November 2015 following an injury sustained while on duty (non-combat related).  He originally commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 2009, immediately beginning pilot training after attending AFROTC and graduating from Florida State University.  During his career Matt was fortunate to be able to fulfill a lifelong dream to fly, being rated as a pilot in both the F-16 and C-17 but injuries precluded him from becoming fully operational and deploying.  As a result of the injury, spinal cord damage and nine neurosurgical operations, he has significant chronic pain along with mental health challenges.  Prior to 2017 Matt’s then pain physician was prescribing him 140mg daily of Oxymorphone (Opana) in an incredibly unsuccessful attempt to ignore the pain.  Despite completely weaning off all narcotics, his quality of life suffered given the lack of other insurance covered options at the time.   With the help of family, friends and tapping into savings and credit cards, Matt decided to start investing in himself and pursued more holistic approaches to healing.  While acupuncture, functional medicine and medical cannabis are very helpful for him, he found ketamine therapy to be truly transformative with the benefits extending to both physical and mental well-being.  This path helped instill in Matt a deep passion for meditation and psychedelic assisted therapy.  Although healing both physically and mentally continues to be a long journey for him, Matt ultimately sees himself coaching/helping Veterans (and others) who have been tossed around by the medical system live healthier lives through meditation and other more holistic options.

James has served in house as general counsel, privacy counsel and head of government affairs for several companies as well as outside counsel and government affairs consultant for multinational corporations. James has 15 years of experience in legislative and policy matters at the city, county, national, state, federal and agency levels, working on legislative and regulatory issues. James’ experience includes closely held as well as publicly traded companies, serving in areas of transportation, health, mental health, pharmaceutical, technology, agriculture, packaging, food services, restaurant groups, real estate, delivery, parking, building and construction, permitting, cannabis, and psychedelics. James has significant experience in national product launches in uncertain regulatory environments. 

James is active in the nonprofit sector, sitting on the board of directors and as vice president for two nonprofits in the patient advocacy and mental health spaces, on the policy committee for a national mental health advocacy association as well as in advocacy and assistance for national marine sanctuaries. 

James is active in directing documentary/advocacy films, and is a spear fisherman, skier, kiteboarder, and musician. James lives in San Francisco with his Irish Setter, Rupert. 

James holds a B.A. in political science from U.C. Berkeley and a J.D. from U.C. Hastings (S.F.) College of the Law and is licensed to practice in California.