COCHS Leadership

Mr. DuBose comes to COCHS with more than 30 years of combined experience in mental health, substance abuse, neighborhood health clinics, community-based agency administration and correctional health care in public, private and governmental settings. During the past 14 years, his experience has focused intensively on public health and correctional health care, working strategically to develop a community-oriented approach to correctional health care. Mr. DuBose has been instrumental in re-engineering systems and processes to implement the country’s largest community-oriented correctional health care delivery model to date. Since 1996, Mr. DuBose has served as an expert faculty member at Howard University in the area of HIV/AIDS and has served as adjunct professor at several colleges and universities and vocational schools throughout the Washington Metropolitan Area. In 2006, Mr. DuBose began providing independent correctional consultation. He travels throughout the country as an adult and juvenile subject matter expert in the areas of health care, food service, and environmental health and safety, conducting quality assurance reviews for Homeland Security U.S. Marshals, Immigration Customs Enforcement, and state and local correctional settings to ensure compliance with applicable standards. Mr. DuBose has an MSW with a concentration in administration, training and staff development from the University of Georgia.

Since February 2006, Dr. Barton has been a staff physician with COCHS, working with the Unity Health Care system in the District of Columbia. Prior to that, he worked in correctional medicine with Prison Health Services at the county jail in Alameda County California. Dr. Barton studied clinical internal medicine at the Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania after graduating from the University of Texas medical school in 1976. He worked in a bilingual medical clinic in Allentown before relocating to Oakland, California where he directed the Berkeley Holistic Health Center (BHHC). Under Dr. Barton's leadership, the BHHC was restructured into the Berkeley Holistic Health Offices, which promoted nutritional and other non-pharmaceutical approaches to health care and health maintenance.

Mr. Butler began his career as a software engineer and later served as a computer consultant with clients including insurance companies, public utilities and investment banks. In 2002, he became the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Rosenberg & Associates where he designed and supervised the implementation of a medical billing system for the Federal Prison in Lompoc, California. As COCHS' CTO, Mr. Butler has traveled throughout the country visiting jails and community health centers investigating how best to implement a community oriented correctional health model. At present he is working with the Unity Health Care system and the District of Columbia on their new inmate healthcare partnership. Mr. Butler holds a masters degree in Interdisciplinary Computer Science from Mills College.

Early is his career Mr. Moss worked at Ernst & Young, a multi-national accounting firm. In 2000 he started his own accounting firm focusing on the needs of tax-exempt organizations. Mr. Moss has provided a full range of accounting and consulting services to many tax-exempt organizations. He received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an option in Accounting from California State University, Chico. He is a member of the American Institute for Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Jacob Turino graduated from Marlboro College in Marlboro, VT, with a B.S. in management information systems. He has extensive experience in software development and has lived and worked in Central America.