Plenary Session:
Invited Address by Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, and Frank Verloin deGruy III, MD—

Arrowroot, Alloys, and the Interstitium: The Alchemy of Teamwork in the Transformation of Health Care (3373)

Saturday, Aug. 8, 4:00–4:50 p.m., Room 713B

Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, is the Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families and Health, director of the Institute for the Family in the Department of Psychiatry, and associate chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Her special areas of interest are behavioral health in primary care and family dynamics and genetic conditions. Dr. McDaniel has published 80 journal articles, including her 2007 study Enough About Me, What About You? Physician Self-Disclosure in a Primary Care Visit, which garnered media attention. She has authored 54 book chapters and coauthored or coedited 12 books, including Medical Family Therapy (1992); The Shared Experience of Illness (1997); Primary Care Psychology (2004); Family-Oriented Primary Care (2005); Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genetics (2007); and Family Therapy (2009). Her books have been translated into eight languages. She was coeditor of the journal Families, Systems, & Health for 12 years and is currently an associate editor for the American Psychologist. Dr. McDaniel has received many awards, including the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Education from the Association of Medical School Psychologists in 2004 and the American Psychological Foundation/Cummings PSYCHE Prize in 2007. She was the first psychologist to complete the Bureau of Health Professions Primary Care Policy Fellowship in 1998. Dr. McDaniel is currently on the board of the American Family Therapy Academy and a member of the APA Council and the Committee for the Advancement of Psychological Practice.

Frank Verloin deGruy III, MD, is the Woodward-Chisholm Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado, a position he has held since 1999. Dr. deGruy is chair of the board of directors of the Family Physicians’ Inquiries Network and president of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association. He recently completed a 5-year term as chair of the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Depression in Primary Care Program. He chaired the Somatoform Work Group for the Primary Care Version of the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and wrote a section for the Institute of Medicine’s monograph on the future of primary care entitled Mental Health Care in the Primary Care Setting. He serves on the University of Michigan Depression Center’s Scientific Advisory Board and is on the steering committee of the National Network of Depression Centers. He serves on the editorial boards of Families, Systems, & Health; Annals of Family Medicine; and Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. He has reviewed over 1,000 grant applications for the National Institute of Mental Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and has conducted formal consultations at 19 departments of family medicine across the country. He has authored over 150 papers, chapters, books, editorials, and reviews and has been the principal investigator on research and training project grants totaling over $5 million.

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