Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is charged to handle the affairs of the Division between meetings and consists of the five officers (President, President-Elect, Past President, Treasurer and Secretary) and Division Representative to APA Council.

Division 39 Officers

  • President: Frank Summers, PhD

  • Past President: William MacGillivray, PhD

  • Secretary: Dana Castellano, PhD

  • Treasurer: Arlene Steinberg, PhD

Representatives to APA Council

  • Marsha McCary, PhD

  • Marilyn Metzl, PhD

  • Richard Ruth, PhD

  • Norman Abeles, PhD

  • Laura Barbanel, PhD

  • David Downing, PhD

  • Marilyn Charles, PhD

Members at Large

  • Ankesnamun Ball, PsyD

  • Nancy McWilliams, PhD

  • Henry Seiden, PhD

  • Jaine Darwin, PhD

  • Diana Diamond, PhD

  • Ernest Mujica, PhD

  • Jill Bellinson, PhD

  • Mary Beth Cresci, PhD

  • Dennis Debiak, PsyD

Section Representative to Division Board

  • Section I: K. William Fried, PhD

  • Section II: Jo Ann Ponder, PhD

  • Section III: Judith Logue PhD

  • Section IV: Barry Dauphin, PhD

  • Section V: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD

  • Section VI: William Gottdiener, PhD

  • Section VIII: Antonia Halton, PhD

  • Section IX: Elizabeth Gore, PhD

Committee Chairs, Liaisons, etc.

  • Awards: Maureen Murphy, PhD

  • Candidates Outreach: Heather Pyle, PhD

  • Continuing Education: Colin F. Ennis

  • Early Career Psychologists: Marilyn Charles, PhD and Winnie Eng, PhD

  • Education & Training: David Downing, PsyD and Martha Hadley, PhD

  • Ethics & Professional Issues: Jane Tillman, PhD

  • Federal Advocacy Coordinator: Marilyn N. Metzl, PhD, ABPP

  • Fellows: David Ramirez, PhD, ABPP

  • Finance: Marsha D. McCary, PhD

  • Graduate Students: Bart Magee, PhD and Brian Brown, MA

  • Infant Mental Health: Stephen Seligman, DMH

  • Liaison to CAPP and IG: Jaine Darwin, PhD

  • Liaison to the Board & Committees of APA: Marilyn N. Metzl, PhD, ABPP

  • Membership: Devon King

  • Multicultural Concerns: Pratyusha Tummala-Narra, PhD

  • Nominations & Elections: Mary Beth Cresci, PhD 

  • Outreach: Richard Ruth, PhD

  • Parliamentarian: Laurel Bass Wagner, PhD

  • Program Committee: Jill Bellinson, PhD

  • Psychoanalysis and Healthcare: Marilyn Jacobs, PhD and Mary-Joan Gerson, PhD 

  • Psychoanalytic Consortium: William A. MacGillivray, PhD, ABPP

  • Publications: Henry Seiden, PhD

  • Public Relations: Nina Thomas, PhD, ABPP

  • Sexuality and Gender Identities: Scott Pytluk, PhD and Shara Sand, PsyD

  • Specialization and Accreditation: Marilyn Jacobs, PhD

Related Resources

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