Norman Abeles, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1975

Dr. Abeles is currently a Professor of Psychology, former Director of the Psychological Clinic, and Founding Director of the Clinical Neuropsychology Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing. His research interests include ethics, applied research on aging, interpersonal relationships, process and outcome research in psychotherapy, and clinical neuropsychology. Born in Vienna, Austria, he received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a founding member of the NR BOD and a former secretary and President of the American Psychological Association. He is a member of the gerontology and geriatric advisory committee to the Secretary of Veteran's Affairs. He was a Fulbright Professor at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He serves as the secretary of the US National Committee to the International Union of Psychological Sciences. He has just been appointed a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging, having served as a delegate to the 1995 conference.

Ellen K. Baker, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1985

Ellen K. Baker, Ph.D. (U. Wis., 1976) is a licensed psychologist in private practice for twenty years in Washington, D.C. She is the author of Caring for Ourselves: A Therapist's Guide to Personal and Professional Well-Being (2003, American Psychological Association Books), and co-author with Lynne M. Hornyak of Experiential Therapies for Eating Disorders (1989, Guilford Press). Dr. Baker was trained in cognitive behavioral therapy, and also works psychodynamically. She has written and led workshops for over twenty years on therapist well-being, using experiential methods, including personal journaling. She hosted a series of workshops at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. on journal writing as a women's folk art form.

Cynthia Belar, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1978

Dr. Belar has made a national impact through her work to advance the field of health psychology. She founded one of the first formal tracks in medical psychology in a doctoral clinical psychology program at the University of Florida. She is also one of the founders of Div. 38 (Health). As a clinical health psychologist, Belar has done clinical work and research in multidisciplinary health-care settings throughout her career, including seven years as chief psychologist at the Los Angeles Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program. Currently on leave from the University of Florida Health Science Center, she is Executive Director for Education Directorate at the APA. She has been actively engaged in teaching, research and practice for 25 years.

Linda Berg-Cross, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1978

Dr. Berg-Cross is Director of Clinical Training and Professor of Psychology at Howard University, Washington DC. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 1974. She has helped develop APA approved training programs at the University of Delaware and Howard University. Dr. Berg-Cross has published seminal textbooks in Couples Therapy and Family Therapy and published over 60 articles on a wide range of topics. Currently, she is the PI for a Bureau of Health Professions Training Grant from HRSA to develop health psychologists dedicated to reducing health disparities. She is board certified (ABClinP), a frequent APA accreditation site visitor, a member of the NR BOD and serves on the NR Committee on Professional Practice and Ethics. Since 1976 she has had a part time private practice. Her practice is in Potomac, Maryland, and she specializes in the treatment of family and couples.

Christine Carrington, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1977

Dr. Carrington earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1979 in Clinical/Counseling Psychology. In addition to an independent practice in Maryland, she has two decades of experience serving on national boards and committees involving training and credentialing of psychologists. For 10 years she served as training director with the University Counseling Service, Howard University, and for 12 years was Chief Psychologist at Howard University Hospital and Medical School. She is currently Associate Professor Psychiatry, Georgetown University Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine (Tenure Track). Her research interests include depression, trauma and PTSD in African American women and psychological aspects of cancer. She currently serves on the Maryland Board of Examiners in Psychology.

Jean Lau Chin, EdD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1975

Dr. Chin is a licensed psychologist, and received her doctoral degree in school psychology in 1974 from Teacher's College, Columbia University in New York. She has been clinician, educator, consultant, and administrator in the 30+ years of her professional career including Co-director of a child guidance clinic, Executive Director of a community health center, and President of CEO Services, a clinical-consulting business. Currently, she is Dean of the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in New York. She has served on many national boards including the National Register Board of Directors, and the Massachusetts Board of Registration for psychologists. Her professional focus has been in the development of culturally competent systems of care, community health and mental health, women's issues and feminist leadership, and psychotherapy with racial/ethnic populations. She is Series Editor of the Praeger Race and Ethnicity Series, and recently released a 4 volume set The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination, and an oral history Learning from My Mother's Voice: Family Legend and the Chinese American experience.

Rosalind Dorlen, PsyD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1980

Dr. Dorlen, an ABPP in Clinical Psychology, was among the first group of psychologists to establish the value of the Practitioner Model in Professional Psychology education. Her Psy.D. was awarded by Rutgers University in 1977, where she was mentored by Peter Nathan, Ph.D. She is active in public policy for psychologists and has recently written a Niche Guide for APA Division 42 (Independent Practice) on establishing a private practice for early career psychologists. Her independent practice is in Summit, New Jersey. Her areas of expertise are individual psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, chronic health issues, and personality disorders. Her interest in Public Psychological Health has resulted in notable programs that enhance psychological health of individuals and communities and educate the public about the value of psychological intervention.

Susan Hamilton, PhD

Dr. Hamilton is the Disaster Mental Health Senior Associate at the American Red Cross national headquarters in Washington, D.C. She is a Clinical Research Psychologist and has worked with the American Red Cross since 1992, first as a Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) volunteer and since January 2000 at national headquarters in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, she is responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Program and works closely with the national mental health associations, Federal and State Agencies, and volunteer agencies. Dr. Hamilton received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, England, and her B.A. from the University of Washington. Her career has included private practice, university teaching, directing chemical abuse and sexual assault programs for adults and children, and serving as a consultant to a variety of organizations. Her main clinical interests include trauma and resilience, and the development of tools to measure, prevent, and treat trauma related conditions. She has published in a number of journals and in her spare time, she writes and publishes essays on subjects outside the field of psychology.

Dorothy Holmes, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1975

Dr. Holmes received her Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University in Clinical Psychology. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester and psychoanalytic training at the Baltimore-Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. She is the Director of the Psy.D. program at George Washington University and Professor of Clinical Psychology. Her interests relate to technique in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy; psychoanalytic applications to mental health issues of minorities and of the poor; forensic psychology. She has published extensively on minority treatment issues. She is a former member of the NR BOD who has had an independent practice in Washington, D.C. for 29 years. She has served on the APA Ethics Committee, Accreditation Committee and Board of Educational Affairs.

George Hurley, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1989

Dr. Hurley received his doctoral degree in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 1980 and is a faculty member at Memorial University. He has been Director and Internship Training Director of the University Counselling Centre, Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, and has helped train healthcare providers in Memorial's medical school. He continues to be involved with training and supervision issues and promotes standards for education and training across Canada and the United States. He is Secretary/Treasurer of the NR Board of Directors and previously served as President of the Canadian Register Board of Directors. He is a Fellow of APA and has a small independent practice in psychological services and consulting.

Anna Lee, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 2002

Dr. Lee is a graduate of the Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies of Adelphi University and is currently employed in adolescent psychology at Kaiser Permanente-Merrifield in Fairfax, Virginia. Her field of expertise is children and adolescents, and psychological aspects of surgery. She was child psychologist at the Children's Service of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City for six years. She is also trained as a psychoanalyst who trained at the New York Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in 1988. In addition, she has conducted research in the psychological aspects of gender and androgyny. She served on the New York State Board of Psychology before moving to Portugal where she lived and practiced for 12 years. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in general and developmental psychology for over 30 years. She currently lives and practices in Fairfax, Virginia.

John Linton, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1985

Dr. Linton is Vice Chair of the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at WVU Charleston. He received his Ph.D. from Kent State University. Dr. Linton's special interests include Ethics, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Traumatic Stress Disorder/CISM, adjustment to medical conditions, and depressive disorders. He serves on the NR Appeals Board and ABPP Board of Trustees. He is also past President of the ABPP Clinical Health Board and has served on the APA Ethics Committee.

Morgan T. Sammons, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1995

Dr. Sammons graduated from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, in 1989. Commander Sammons is Director of Clinical Operations in the US Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and is President/Chairperson of the NR Board. One of the 10 psychologists to have graduated from Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project, he has been in the forefront of the campaign for prescriptive authority, not only on a state legislative level, but also on an academic level. Through his consultations with various universities and state psychological associations, he has striven to affect curriculum changes to support the expansion of the practice of psychology into this area, into greater engagement in the provision of rural mental health services and into telehealth service provision. He is former President of MD Psychological Association, serves on APA Council of Representatives (Div 55) and holds the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in Clinical Psychology. He is a current member of APA's Policy and Planning Committee and former Chair of the Committee on Rural Health. He is an associate editor of Professional Psychology: Research and practice. He is the recipient of the 2005 APA Distinguished Service Award in the Public Sector.

Carl Settles , PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1982

Dr. Settles, a retired Colonel, US Army, is the former Director, Mental Health Services, and Chief, Department of Psychology, Darnall Army Community Hospital, Ft. Hood, Texas. He currently serves on the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychology and maintains a private practice in Killeen, Texas, primarily serving soldiers and their families as well as soldiers and civilians returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Formerly, he served as an Army Legislative Liaison Officer, advising on healthcare issues, an APA Congressional Science Fellow to Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Director of the Community Counseling Center in Camp Zama, Japan, and Associate Director of Counseling Services at Prairie View A&M University. He completed his doctoral degree at the University of Texas, Austin in 1976.

Craig Shealy, PhD

Dr. Shealy is Professor of Graduate Psychology, Executive Director of the International Beliefs and Values Institute (IBAVI), and Training Director of the Combined-Integrated (C-I) Doctoral Program at James Madison University in Virginia. He received his Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology from Auburn University in 1992. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Shealy's primary research and teaching interests concern integrated approaches to doctoral education and training as well as a theoretically and empirically grounded system for examining human beliefs and values (consisting of the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory or BEVI, Equilintegration or EI Theory, and the EI Self). The BEVI is currently being used in a national study of the beliefs and values of doctoral students in psychology and as the quantitative measure in an ACE/FIPSE grant that is assessing international learning (www.jmu.edu/ibavi/).

George Stricker, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1975

George Stricker is Professor of Psychology at Argosy University, Arlington, VA, after having retired from being Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology in the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, New York. His principal interests are psychotherapy integration, clinical training, ethics, and research in grandparenting. He received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Rochester in 1960 and an honorary Psy.D. from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Meadows Campus, in 1997. Dr. Stricker is an ABPP Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and was elected as a Distinguished Practitioner in Psychology. He has received numerous awards and served as President of almost every notable organization in psychology. He was on the Board of Directors of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, and the New York State Board for Psychology and has served on numerous APA Boards and Committees, including the Board of Educational Affairs and as Chair of the APA Ethics Committee. Dr. Stricker is the author or editor of about 20 books, about 30 book chapters, and more than 100 journal articles.

Beverly Thorn, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 2003

Dr. Thorn is Professor and Director of the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Alabama (Tusc) where she has been employed for 20 years. Her Ph.D. is from Southern Illinois University. She currently serves on the AL State Board of Psychology and on APA Council of Representatives. She has had extensive experience with problems of sexual harassment, providing expert testimony on discipline in the university. She has served as mediator of sexual exploitation issues with other boards. She also is working on developing ideas on the best approach to assessment of competence of students in interaction with others. Her research interests are in medical/health psychology, chronic pain, sexual dysfunctions, and assessment. She recently published Cognitive Therapy for Chronic Pain (Guilford Publications).

Erica Wise, PhD
Credentialed by the National Register since 1992

Dr. Wise is currently Director of the Psychology Training Clinic and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill. She has been active in promoting ethics in professional practice, keeping current on new ethics codes in psychology and decision-making in ethics requirements for psychologists. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1980. She has also been active in women's issues in psychotherapy as well as student mental health. She is a former member and chair of both the APA Ethics Committee and the APA Board of Professional Affairs (BPA) Committee on Professional Practice and Standards. In addition, she completed a 10-year term on the North Carolina Psychology Board and served as chair for two years. She is VP of the NR BOD and Chair of the NR Committee on Professional Practice and Ethics.