Alumni in the News

Friday, July 1, 2011

Alumna Accepts Position with Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Jamie Pollack (PsyD 2002) accepted a position with the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for the Department of the Navy in Washington D.C. to work as a clinical expert/clinical health policy advisor in neuropsychology for the Traumatic Brain Injury Program (TBI). Dr. Pollack offers advisement on the TBI evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation programs for injured sailors and marines.

Alumnus Accents Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

Timothy Petersen, Ph.D. (1998) is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Petersen has considerable research, writing, teaching and clinical work in the area of cognitive-behaviorally based psychotherapies for mood disorders.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Alumna Presents at Conference

Belinda Thomas (M.S. 2011) presented Spiritual Coping: Implications and strategies for working with individuals from Trinidad at the recent Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling Biannual National Conference.

CPS Alumna Takes Position at Army Medical Center

Erin Johns (Ph.D. 2010, M.S. 2010) has accepted a position at the Womack Army Medical Center at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. In addition to completing the doctoral clinical psychology program, Dr. Johns completed the center’s master’s program in clinical psychopharmacology and was awarded her degree in December 2010.

CPS ALUMNUS JOINS FLORIDA MARLINS STAFF

Robert Seifer (Ph.D. 2002) has been hired as the Team Psychologist/Performance Enhancement Coach for the Florida Marlins organization. In this position Dr. Seifer created and has implemented a psychological performance enhancement program to all the players of the Marlins organization. Dr. Seifer is an associate professor of psychology at Lynn University.

Alumnus Co-Edits Book

Mark Blais, Psy.D. (1990), recently co-edited a book, Clinical Applications of the Personality Assessment Inventory.

CPS Alumnus Recognized for Distinguished Research

Bradley Donohue (Ph.D. 1995) was recently awarded the UNLV Barrick Scholar Award for Distinguished Research, and the UNLV Alumni Association’s Outstanding Faculty Award and Student-Focused Award. Dr. Donohue is the director of the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Achievement Center. Dr. Donohue has directed projects funded by NIDA, NIMH, and SAMSHA. He is a recipient of the Western Psychological Association Early Career Research Award.

Alumni Appointments

Center for Psychological Studies Alumna Allyson Baker (Psy. D. 2008)has received an appointment as assistant training director for internship/postdoctoral training for the South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio, Texas.

Center for Psychological Studies Alumna Patricia Taboas (MHC 2008) has received an appointment as Youth Program Manager for the Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, a youth prevention intervention program covered by a new Children’s Trust grant.

Marva M. Robin, Psy.D (2008) has accepted a position at Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center, in Farmington, Missouri as a forensic psychology resident.

Master’s Alumna Accepts Position with Broward County School Board

Center for Psychological Studies Alumna Mabel Thackeray, M.S. (2007) has accepted a position as Counselor for the Broward County School Board. Ms. Thackeray will be providing counseling for schools in the North Broward area.

Center for Psychological Studies alumna Jane Echterling, Ph.D. (1999) began a one-year term as president of the Florida Psychological Association: North Central Florida Chapter on January 1, 2008.

CPS Alumnus Anthony Castro, Psy.D/Ph.D (2005) has accepted a position at the University of Miami School of Medicine providing forensic services on issues primarily involving hildren/adolescents/families. Dr. Castro recently completed a two-year clinical fellowship in pediatric forensic psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Brian Freedman, Ph.D., (2006) has accepted a position at Kennedy Krieger’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders, at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, the Kennedy Krieger Institute is a multi-faceted, multidisciplinary program for children with autism spectrum disorders.

Center for Psychological Studies Alumna Melissa Brymer, Ph.D/Psy.D. has been appointed Director of the Child Trauma Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Center for Psychological Studies Alumnus Luis Bedregal (Ph,.D. 2002) has received an appointment as assistant professor at the Yale University Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC). The CMHC is a collaborative endeavor of the Yale University Department of Psychiatry and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.