Dr. Megan Testa

Dr. Megan Testa is the director of Psychiatric Services at the Cuyahoga County Diversion Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the first facility of its kind in the state. She has been instrumental in helping to develop clinical protocols and trains the center’s clinicians, nurses, and residential psychiatrists on how to provide compassionate client-centered care using a harm reduction approach, with a particular focus on women and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. For nearly two decades, Dr. Testa has also provided community and forensic psychiatry services and has held leadership roles in the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and the APA Foundation where she has supported efforts to promote race equity.