Key Personnel

.Jesse J. Sell, Ph.D.
Treasurer and Director of Administration

Dr. Sell is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University (Phi Beta Kappa) and holds the M.Div. and Ph.D. Degrees from Duke University, as well as a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke. He is an ordained Minister of The United Church of Christ.

Jesse spent many years in the academic study of Religion, was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Duke University and has numerous publications in his academic discipline. He is a certified and licensed addictions counselor (LCAS; MAC; ICAC) and has worked as a chemical dependency counselor at Pinehurst Treatment Center, CHAPS Koala Center, Fellowship Hall, Inc. and the Clark-Dartmouth Clinic. He is a published author in the field of addiction treatment research.
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R. Dewayne Book, MD
Director; Vice President of Corporation

Dr. Book has been Medical Director of Fellowship Hall, Greensboro, NC since 2000.

He was educated at the Louisiana State University (BS); the University of Georgia (MSW) and Mercer University School of Medicine (MD).  His advanced training (internship and residency) was at Duke University Medical Center. He was honored by being chosen "Outstanding Student of the Year" at both Mercer Medical School and Duke University Medical Center.

He is Board Certified in Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine and is a Past-President of the North Carolina Society of Addiction Medicine. Dr. Book is also a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist and serves as a Member of the North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Practice Board.

Dr. Book also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor at Duke University Medical Center where he supervises and trains Residents in Addictions treatment.
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Joyce Anderson Stutts
Director

Ms. Stutts recently retired after many years as Family Therapy Counselor and Trainer at Fellowship Hall, Inc., Greensboro, NC. She also served as a Family Therapy Counselor at the Alcoholism Residential Care Authority in Winston-Salem, NC, and holds certification by the International Certification & Reciprocity Consortium/Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse.

Joyce has served as a board member of the Guilford county Area Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services Program and, for more than twenty years, has been involved in countless other recovery related activities and organizations.
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Martin L. Brooks, MD
Director; Chair of the Board

Dr. Brooks is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School and has practiced medicine in Robeson County, North Carolina for many years. He has also served as Medical Director of Carolina Manor Treatment Center and Samaritan Colony, Inc.

Martin has been involved in countless recovery related activities and projects, including the NC Physicians Health and Effectiveness Committee, and he is one of the most sought after speakers in this part of the country. His years of service to North Carolina and Robeson County have garnered him countless awards and the undying gratitude of the thousands he has helped.
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H. Hall Powell, CFRE
(Volunteer) Fund-Raising Counsel

Mr. Powell is a graduate of Guilford College and Winthrop University.

Mr. Powell has 23 years experience in charitable fundraising. Hall has served as  Executive Director of the New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation, 1991-1996. He previously had his own professional fundraising consulting firm (Powell, Stump & Associates) and was director of the Amethyst Foundation in Charlotte, NC. Prior to that Mr. Powell worked several years for the oldest and largest fund-raising consulting firm in the country, Kethcum, Inc.

Hall is a certified fund raising executive through the Association of Fundraising Professionals and was recently honored by election to the board of directors of that organization.

Mr. Powell served on the faculty of the School of Business at Winthrop University and has also taught in the Duke University Program in Nonprofit Management
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Harold Pearson
Secretary of the Corporation; Director

Harold is Executive Director of Samaritan Colony in Rockingham, North Carolina, an institution to which he has devoted a major portion of his life.  He is also active in many other recovery related organizations and activities.
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Steven C. Grambow, Ph.D
Director

Steven C. Grambow, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center and a Senior Statistician for the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care and the Epidemiologic Research and Information Center (ERIC) at the Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center. 

He was educated at California State University at Chico (BS) and the University of Kentucky (MS and PhD) and has been a faculty member at Duke University Medical Center since 1999.

Steve is a clinical researcher and serves as principal investigator or co-investigator on a variety of clinical, health services, and epidemiological research studies.  He is actively involved in several intervention studies designed to improve aftercare adherence following inpatient addiction treatment and is a published author in the field of addiction treatment research.  He has been actively involved in recovery related organizations and activities for the past 20 years.              Back to Top

Richard Puschinsky MD., F.A.C.S.
Director

Dr. Puschinsky is a graduate of Texas A&M University (B.S.), and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX (M.D.).  He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Urology, having received urology  internship and residency training at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.  Richard is also a Fellow of The American College of Surgeons.

He has been in private urology practice at Medical Center Urology in High Point, NC since 1995.

Dr. Puschinsky is a Past President of the High Point Medical Society, he is a member of the North Carolina Medical Society Ethical and Judicial Affairs Committee, and he is on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Physicians Health Program.

 Richard has been actively involved in recovery related organizations and activities since 1990.

Anne Fitzgreald RN
Director

Anne Fitzgerald graduated form nursing school in Miami, Florida in 1976. She has been working for 32 years in the field of nursing specializing in the care of terminally ill children. She has been at Duke University Medical Center for the last 22 years. 

Anne has been an active member of the 12 step program for years and is invested in recovery of all interested.

Wayne C Smith
Director  and President of the Corporation