Psychologists Serving on NIH Advisory Committees

National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Jose Szapocznik, PhD (02/28/2012)
Professor and Chair
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, L 33136

Sleep Disorders Research Advisory Board

Michael Vitiello, PhD (06/30/2012)
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195

National Advisory Council on Aging

Terrie Fox Wetle, PhD (12/31/2013)
Associate Dean and Professor
Program in Public Health
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912

National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

Andrew Heath, DPhil (10/31/12)
Spencer T. Olin Professor Professor of Psychiatry
Missouri Alcoholism Research Center
Psychiatry Department
Washington University
St. Louis , MO 63108

Edward Riley, PhD (10/31/12)
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Center for Behavioral Teratology
Department of Psychology
San Diego State University
San Diego , CA 92120

Linda Spear, PhD (10/31/12)
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Center for Developmental Psychobiology
Binghamton University
Binghamton , NY 13902

Kathleen Grant, PhD (13)
Professor
Department of Behavioral Neuroscience
Oregon Health and Sciences University
Portland, Or 97239-3098

National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council

Rosemarie Truglio, PhD (11/30/11)
Vice President of Education and Research
Sesame Workshop
One Lincoln Plaza
New York, NY 10833

Richard Wagner, PhD (13)
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1270 

National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council

Helen Tager-Flusberg (2016)
Professor
Deptartment of Psychology
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215

William Yost, PhD (2011)
Chair of Speech and Hearing Science
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse

Caryn Lerman, PhD (11/30/2013)
Mary W. Calkins Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Director, Tobacco Use Research Center
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

James Sorensen, PhD (11/30/2012)
Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
San Francisco General Hospital
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94110

National Advisory Dental and Craniofacial Research Council

Steve Martino, PhD (11/30/2013)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Yale University
West Haven, CT 06516

National Advisory Mental Health Council

Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD (09/30/12)
Charles Howard Candler Professor
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Howard B. Eichenbaum, PhD (09/30/12)
Professor and Director
Center for Memory and Brain
Department of Psychology
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215

Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD (13)
Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

David Amaral, PhD (12)
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
The M.I.N.D. Institute
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA

Advisory Committee to the Director

Alan Leshner, PhD (12/31/09)
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Publisher, Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, DC 20005

James Jackson, PhD (12/31/2012)
Director
Institute for Social Research
Daniel Katz Distinguished Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor,  MI 48106

Beatriz Luna,  PhD (12/31/2011)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Director’s Council of Public Representatives

Leo Wilton, PhD (03/31/2013)
Asst. Professor of Human Development and Africana Studies
Department of Human Development
College of Community and Public Affairs
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902

Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health

Farida Sohrabji, PhD (01/31/2013)
Associate Professor
Associate Department Head
Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Texas A&M University Health Science Center
College Station, TX 77843

National Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Susan Folkman, PhD (07/31/2013)
Professor Emeritus
Founding Director
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
University of California San Francisco
Hillsborough, CA 94010