Governance Positions

Professional Governance (elected positions)

Illinois Association of Prescribing Psychologists (IAPP)
President and CEO
October 25, 2018 - December 31, 2023

National Register of Health Service Psychologists
Member, Board of Directors 
January 1, 1919 – December 31, 2022

American Psychological Association (APA)
Board of Directors, American Psychological Association Member
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019

Council Leadership Team, American Psychological Association
Immediate Past Chair - January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2020
Chair - January 1, 2019-December 31, 2019
Chair-elect - January 1, 2018-December 31, 2018

Division 56 (Division of Trauma Psychology)
Immediate Past President - January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016
President - January 1, 2015 - December 31, 2015
President-elect - January 1, 2014 -- December 31, 2014
Treasurer - January 1, 2008 -- December 31, 2010; January 1, 2011 -- December 31, 2013

Division 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology), Section IV, Women's Section
Member-at-Large - January 1, 2011 -- December 31, 2013

Division 55 (Division of Pharmacotherapy)
Member, APA Council of Representatives and Member of the Board of Directors - January 1, 2017 -- December 31, 2019
Member, APA Council of Representatives and Member of the Board of Directors - January 1, 2010 -- December 31, 2012,   January 1, 2007 -- December 31, 2009, 
Immediate Past President  and Member of the Board of Directors - January 1, 2005 -- December 31, 2005
President and Member of the Board of Directors - January 1, 2004 -- December 31, 2004
President-elect and Member of the Board of Directors - January 1, 2003 -- December 31, 2003

APA Finance Committee
Member, APA Board Budget Subcommittee - January 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Member - January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2013; January 1, 2014 – December 31, 2016

Education and Training Caucus, APA Council of Representatives
Past Chair - August 2018 - August 2019
Chair - January 1, 2016 - August 2018
Secretary - January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2014

Healthcare/Health Science Caucus, APA Council of Representatives
Immediate Past Chair - January 1, 2018 -- December 31, 2018
Chair - January 1, 2017 -- December 31, 2017
Immediate Past Chair - January 1, 2015 -- December 31, 2015
Chair - January 1, 2014 -- December 31, 2014
Chair-elect - January 1, 2013 -- December 31, 2013
Secretary/Treasurer - January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2012
Representative to the Committee on the Structure and Function of APA Council  - January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2010

Public Interest Caucus, APA Council of Representatives
Immediate Past Chair - January 1, 2013 -- December 31, 2013
Chair - January 1, 2012 -- December 31, 2012
Chair-elect - January 1, 2011 -- December 31, 2011

Women's Caucus, APA Council of Representatives
Chair-elect - January 1, 2018 -- December 31, 2018
Secretary - January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2012

Alliant International University
Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees - October 19, 2012 -- September 1, 2014
Member, Executive Committee, Board of Trustees - February 2009 -- September 1, 2014​

Illinois Psychological Association (IPA)
Treasurer - July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2017
Immediate Past President - July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
President - July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014
President-elect - July 1, 2012 -- June 30, 2013
President - July 1, 2011 -- June 30, 2012
President-elect - July 1, 2010 -- June 30, 2011
Area Code Representative to IPA Council - July 1, 2008 -- June 30, 2010

Professional Governance (appointed positions)

Illinois Association of Prescribing Psychologists (IAPP)
President and CEO
October 25, 2018 - December 31, 2023

National Register of Health Service Psychologists
Member, Board of Directors 
January 1, 1919 – December 31, 2022

American Psychological Association (APA)
Board of Directors, American Psychological Association Member
January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019

APA Division 56 (Division of Trauma Psychology)
Co-Chair, Torture and Trauma Task Force (July 15, 2016 - Present)
Chair, Nominations and Elections Committee (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2016)
Co-Chair, Capital Campaign Task Force (January 1, 2014 - Present)
Co-Chair, Task Force, Ethical Issues in Forensic Cases involving Abuse and Trauma (January 1, 2008 -- December 31, 2010)

APA Division 55 (Division of Pharmacotherapy)
Chair, Illinois Chapter (January 1, 2007 -- December 31, 2009)
Chair, Committee to Establish ABPP in Psychopharmacology (January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2009)
Chair, Fourth Annual Mid-Winter Conference, Kansas City, Missouri (January 8 – 12, 2008)
Co-Chair, Task Force:  Review of Proficiency in the Psychological Treatment of Alcohol and other Psychoactive Substance    Use Disorders (January 1, 2007 -- December 31, 2007)
Second Chair, Third Annual Mid-Winter Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (February 8 – 11, 2007)
Chair, First Annual Mid-Winter Conference, Orlando, Florida (February 10 – 13, 2005)
Created Task Force to develop Practice Guidelines for Psychologists Involved in Medication Consultations and for                Psychologists with Prescriptive Authority (June 2004)
Chair, Membership Committee (January 1, 2000 -- December 31, 2003)
Chair, Media Committee (January 1, 2000 -- December 31, 2003)
Co-Chair, Geropharmacotherapy Committee (January 1, 2000 -- December 31, 2003)

APA Division 18 (Psychologists in Public Service)-Alliant International University
Member, Committee on the Training of Public Service Psychologists in Prescriptive Authority

(January 1, 2007 --  September 30, 2014)

APA Division 31 (State, Provincial, and Territorial  Psychological Association Affairs)
Chair, Prescriptions Section (February 1, 2001 - August 31, 2003)

APA Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women)
Chair, The Carolyn Wood Sherif  Memorial Lectureship Award Committee (January 1, 1989 - December 31, 1990)

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS)
Appointed Position, Chair,  Chicago Regional Conference (Date TBD)

Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB)
Member, Psychopharmacology Exam for Psychologists-Job Task Analysis Task Force (PEP-JTATF)
(February 2017 - December 2017)

The Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Consultant, Establishing a Master's degree training program in Clinical Psychopharmacology
Chicago, Illinois (February 2, 2017 - December 31, 2017)
Member, Board of Advisors, Program in Forensic Psychology, Chicago, Illinois (2006 – Present)

Princeton University
Member, Advisory Council, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Woodrow Wilson School (March 1, 2016 - Present)

Alliant International University
Liaison to the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) Advisory Board from the Alliant International University Board of Trustees (January 1, 2013 -- September 1, 2014)
Chair,  Law School Integration Committee, Board of Trustees (February 2009 -- January 1, 2013)
Member, Finance Committee, Board of Trustees (February 2009 -- September 1, 2014)

Institute on Violence, Abuse, and Trauma (IVAT), Alliant International University
Member, Board of Directors (January 1, 2010 -- December 31, 2012)

National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma
Member, Board of Advisors, Baltimore, Maryland (1998 - Present)

Community Organization Governance Positions (elected positions)

Alexian Brothers Center for Mental Health, Alexian Brothers Health System 
Honorary Member, Board of Directors,      Arlington Heights, Illinois (April 16, 2016 - Present)

Thresholds
 ​Member, Board of Directors                      Chicago, llinois (November 12, 2015 - Present)

American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel)
Member, National Board of Directors, Executive Committee 
Member, Finance Committee and Budget Committee  (January 1, 2008 -- August 2018)

Princeton Club of Chicago
Executive Committee, Chicago, Illinois (December 1, 2000 - August 31, 2002)

The Greater Chicago Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse
Vice President, Board of Directors, Chicago, Illinois (January 1, 1991 - December 31, 1991)

Refuge House:  A Shelter for Battered Women and their Children
Co-Founder (October 1977)
President, Board of Directors, Tallahassee, Florida (November 1, 1977 - December 1, 1979)

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