Newswise — WASHINGTON - The Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association has named 15 eminent, diverse leaders of the discipline to the search committee for a new chief executive officer of the association.
The committee is co-chaired by the 2016 President-Elect Antonio E. Puente, PhD, and Rodney L. Lowman, PhD, ABAP, past chair of the association’s Council Leadership Team. Puente is a professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, and Lowman is a psychology professor at Alliant International University, San Diego, and president, Lowman & Richardson/Consulting Psychologists.
“This panel represents the diversity of the discipline of psychology, in terms of work setting, career stage, ethnic and racial background and expertise,” said APA 2016 President Susan H. McDaniel, PhD. “The selection process was thorough and methodical, and was based on a matrix of qualifications.”
The next steps in the process are to finalize the choice of an executive search firm, which will develop a detailed job description and then solicit and vet candidates, McDaniel said. “The search committee will select the top candidates for review by the Board of Directors,” she said. “The Board’s choice for CEO will then be reviewed and confirmed by the governing Council of Representatives.”
The person who is chosen will become the 11th CEO in the association’s 124-year history. The previous CEO, Norman B. Anderson, PhD, retired Dec. 31, 2015. Cynthia D. Belar, PhD, was named interim CEO in January.
Other members of the CEO search committee:
Rehman Abdulrehman, PhD Director, Clinic Psychology Manitoba, and Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Clinical Health PsychologyCollege of Medicine, University of Manitoba
Mark Appelbaum, PhDEmeritus ProfessorDepartment of PsychologyUniversity of California, San Diego
Jane C. Conoley, PhD President, California State University, Long Beach
Katharine Hahn-Oh, PhD Director, The Counseling Center, Cleveland State University
Suzanne Bennett Johnson, PhD, ABPPDistinguished Research Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social MedicineFlorida State University College of Medicine
Angela O. Herzog, PhDIndependent Practitioner, Psycamore LLC
Justin Karr, MScGraduate Research Assistant, CORTEX Research Lab, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Jeanne LeBlanc, PhDIndependent Practitioner, Clinical Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation International Disaster Response Representative
James L. Outtz, PhDIndustrial/Organizational Psychologist in Private Practice
Elwood Robinson, PhDChancellor, Winston-Salem University
Linda Spear, PhDDistinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, The State University of New York
Reiko True, PhDEmeritus Professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University
Jeremy M. Wolfe, PhDDirector, Visual Attention Lab, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School ________________________________________The American Psychological Association, in Washington, D.C., is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's membership includes more than 122,500 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance the creation, communication and application of psychological knowledge to benefit society and improve people's lives.________________________________________
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