HAWAII PSYCHOLOGIST RAYMOND FOLEN, PHD, ELECTED TO NATIONAL REGISTER OF HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS IN PSYCHOLOGY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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September 8, 2010, Washington, D.C. – The National Register Board of Directors elected Raymond Folen, PhD, to a four-year term beginning on January 1, 2011. Dr. Folen was elected to the board last year at the June 2009 meeting. Dr. Folen reacted to his election by stating, “It is a great pleasure for me to serve on the Board of Directors. The National Register has always been on the cutting edge of practice and technology. I hope to help in articulating the further expansion of psychological practice in primary care settings, in rural and underserved areas, in providing care to Soldiers, Veterans and their Families, and in the use of technology to increase access to care.”
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Since 1984, Dr. Folen has worked at the Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii where he was first the Chief of Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology Service and later became the Chief of the Department of Psychology in 2007. He also serves as the Co-Director of the Virtual Reality Research Laboratory at Pacific Telehealth & Technology HUI in Honolulu. Dr. Folen’s research and professional interests span a wide range of issues including primary care psychology, telehealth, psychopharmacology and biofeedback. Since 1997, Dr. Folen has served on the editorial board of the APA’s publication, Psychological Services. In 2009, he was named the Federal Manager/Supervisor of the Year by the Honolulu-Pacific Federal Executive Board.
Dr. Folen earned his PhD from the University of Hawaii in 1978. Dr. Folen has been credentialed by the National Register since 1979.
About The National Register
The National Register is the largest credentialing organization for psychologists. The independent, non-profit organization was created in 1974 with the help of the American Psychological Association and the American Board of Professional Psychology. Today, the National Register is the leading source of information on nationally credentialed psychologists in health care. Psychologists who are awarded national registrant status have achieved the highest educational and professional standards in health care. Early career psychologists can accumulate the necessary credentials during their training so that when they apply for a license to practice, they also are ready to become registrants of the National Register. It is the only independent, credentialing body with a national level standard for verifying education and training qualifications, licensing, and ethical standards with more than 12,000 doctoral level psychologists in its database. The National Register is relied upon by the health care industry, state and provincial licensing boards, and consumers. National Register also provides this valuable information to consumers as a free referral service to top quality psychologists at www.findapsychologist.org.
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