FSPHP Board of Director

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.

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.

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.

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  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.

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