Jason D. Isham, MS, LMFT, CCM
Vice President, Behavioral Health, Children’s Health, Dallas, TX
Jason is an accomplished behavioral health leader with over 30 years of experience and a proven record of success at both non-profit and publicly traded companies. He has been with Children’s Health in Dallas, Texas since 2016. Currently, Jason serves as the Vice President of Behavioral Health. In that role, he provides administrative and clinical leadership for the development and operation of a comprehensive, system-wide behavioral health system that integrates medical and behavioral health. He is responsible for maintaining an overarching framework including consistent processes, clinical pathways, quality measures, collaborative initiatives and advisory board functions. Widely recognized across Texas and within the behavioral health industry as a strategic and collaborative leader, he has driven expansion and innovation in Children’s Health’s Behavioral Health programs over the last 10 years, including launching both CPAN and TCHATT in 2020.
Before joining Children’s Health, Jason spent his career leading programs with at-risk children in multidisciplinary team settings in the nonprofit sector. He led juvenile diversion programs in California and spent 10 years in the Children’s Advocacy Center movement in California and Texas. He also has managed care leadership experience, having led utilization management, case management and ambulatory follow-up teams for several years.