Crystal R. Blyler
Senior Researcher

Blyler also provides quality assurance reviews of projects to improve the delivery and quality of mental health services. Using Medicaid claims data, she helped identify factors that influence the use of evidence-based practices in treating people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. She is also senior adviser for a study that is developing behavioral health quality measures that will be used to monitor progress toward reaching the goals of the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration National Behavioral Health Quality Framework.

Prior to joining Mathematica in 2011, Blyler was a social science analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she directed evidence-based research projects to improve employment and health outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities. Her clinical experience includes serving as a research fellow for the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center at the University of Maryland; research psychologist and therapist/treatment coordinator at the CPC Health/Chestnut Lodge Hospital, Chestnut Lodge Research Institute, and Dexter M. Bullard Jr. Outpatient Mental Health Clinic; associate research scientist for Columbia University’s Department of Anesthesiology; and diagnostic interviewer at Dartmouth College/New Hampshire Hospital. She also was a member of the Human Rights Committee for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.

Blyler has a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University, where she also was a postdoctoral clinical research fellow for the Laboratory for Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology. She is  widely published in a number of peer-reviewed publications. including the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, American Journal of Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research and Psychiatric Services.