LINCOLN- Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen picked a new director Tuesday to lead the Behavioral Health division within the state's Department of Health and Human Services, filling a vacancy that had been open since Pillen took office nearly two years ago. Pillen tabbed Dr. Thomas Janousek, who has been the deputy director of clinical excellence within HHS's Behavioral Health division since October 2022, to lead the division, the governor's office announced Tuesday.

Janousek, a former neuropsychologist at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln who previously served as the vice president of quality and compliance at Burrell Behavioral Health in Missouri, will take over the division on Monday. Janousek earned his doctorate in psychology from the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology, which closed its campuses in Springfield and St. Louis, Missouri, amid financial difficulties in 2015, the year Janousek earned his doctorate.

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