Mr. Rule is a project coordinator in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). He is also a clinician who works with children, adolescents, and their families in a part-time private practice, and has worked with this population in inpatient, outpatient, and emergency room settings with the UAMS Child Study Center and Arkansas Children’s Hospital for over 15 years. He especially enjoys working with children with developmental disabilities, ADHD, mood disorders, and anger control problems. He has served as the Prevention Education and Outreach manager for a managed behavioral healthcare company, worked as a children’s health policy analyst, and has been involved in research on adolescent depression, children’s health insurance policy, and violence in a juvenile boot camp population.

Mr. Rule received his B.A. in psychology from Yale University and his M.S.W. with a concentration in management and community practice from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR). He completed an internship in child advocacy and health care policy at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families and co-authored a published a paper for the School Social Work Journal while at UALR. He is licensed as a clinical social worker in Arkansas.