2026 - 2028 FSPHP Board of Directors Candidates

President Elect
Laura Moss, MD

Laura Moss (formerly Ferguson) received a BS in nursing from Washington State University and MD from the University of Washington (UW).  She completed psychiatry residency and addiction fellowship at UW and the Seattle VA Medical Center, and is board-certified in General and Addiction Psychiatry through ABPN.  Before her current position as the Associate Medical Director for the Washington Physicians Health Program, she was the Director of the Women’s Trauma and Recovery Center at the Seattle VA, a Clinical Assistant Professor at the UW, and the Medical Director at Hazelden Betty Ford, Oregon. Currently, she serves as a Western Region Board Director for the Federation of State Physician Health Programs (FSPHP) and participates in a few FSPHP committees, currently chairing the Evaluation and Treatment Committee (ETAC). During her time away from work, she enjoys doing ballet, gardening, caring for honeybees, and spending time with her husband, 5 “barn” cats, a dog, and numerous chickens on their hobby farm. 

Read more about this candidate here: STATEMENT OF INTEREST


Central Region Director
Becky Carlson, LMHC

Becky Carlson is the Program Coordinator for the Iowa Professional Health Program (IPHP) for pharmacy, dental, and professional licensing. She has worked with IPHP for over 7 years and finds that her compassion for the participants is what motivates her. She has a Master’s degree in mental health counseling from Drake University in Des Moines, IA, and a Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Simpson College in Indianola, IA. Ms. Carlson has worked in many roles, including working with youths struggling in the criminal justice system, as an individual mental health therapist, and as a security officer. Her passion is working with those who may be at their “rock bottom” from struggles in their lives and working with those who have unresolved grief and loss. When she is not working, she is focused on family and friends. She enjoys camping, lounging in the pool, traveling, and laughing.

Read more about this candidate here: STATEMENT OF INTEREST


Northeast Region Director
Mark Albanese, MD

Mark J. Albanese, MD, is an addiction psychiatrist, and the Medical Director of the Physician Health Services (PHS) of Massachusetts, a subsidiary of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Dr. Albanese is a graduate of Harvard College and Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. He trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Prior to coming to PHS, Dr. Albanese was at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), where his roles included Director of Addictions and Director of Outpatient Psychiatry. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and continues to teach at CHA and in several other academic programs. Dr. Albanese is also Medical Director of the North Charles Institute on Addictions Opioid Treatment Program. And since 2022 he has been a Northeast Regional Representative on the Federation of State Physician Health Programs (FSPHP) Board of Directors. 

Read more about this candidate here: STATEMENT OF INTEREST


 

Southeast Region Director
Sandra L Frazier MD, FASAM

Dr. Sandra Frazier attended medical school at The University of Mississippi, where she also completed a pediatric residency and fellowships in Adolescent Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She has been nationally certified in Addiction Medicine since 1991 and is currently a Fellow in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).

She came to The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1994 and founded The Addiction Recovery Program in the Department of Psychiatry, where she served as Medical Director for 11 years. As part of this program, she worked with many health care professionals with substance use disorders and became interested in professional health and wellbeing, and decided to focus her efforts more broadly.

In an effort to assist health care providers in a more proactive and preventive way, she established The Professional Development Office in 2006 at UAB. For the last 19 years of her 31-year UAB career, her practice focused on caring for caregivers. As such, she worked with medical students, residents, fellows, Advanced Practice Providers, as well as MD and PhD faculty members to provide assessment, triage, counseling, and coaching all in a confidential setting. 

In 2018, Dr Frazier became the Medical Director of the Alabama Professionals Health Program in a part-time role. Upon retirement from UAB in December of 2025, she stepped into the role full-time.

Read more about this candidate here: STATEMENT OF INTEREST


 

Western Region Director
Emily Doyle, MD

Emily J. Doyle, MD, is a board-certified forensic psychiatrist in Austin, TX. She is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Medical School and completed psychiatry residency at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California. She completed a fellowship in forensic psychiatry at the University of Southern California Institute of Psychiatry and Law. In addition to her over twenty years of experience in clinical psychiatry, Dr. Doyle has experience in medical education, administration, and medical-legal consultation. Her interests include physician health and wellness and ethical and legal issues in medicine. She served on the Travis County Physician Health and Rehabilitation Committee for many years before joining the Texas Physician Health Program as Medical Director. 

Read more about this candidate here: STATEMENT OF INTEREST