MFP Psychology Programs Training Advisory Committee (2007 - 2008) The MFP Advisory committee is composed of outstanding psychologists who provide leadership, sound advice, professional judgment, and extraordinary commitment to the organization and programs of the MFP. The advisory committee meets twice a year. They read and evaluate applications of hundreds of candidates for our various programs. Other functions of the advisory committee include tracking the progress of fellows, offering student advisement, and shaping the policies of the MFP. These successful and dedicated advisors serve as role models and mentors to MFP fellows. Advisory committee members welcome your interest in their work and are open to sharing ideas related to research and training. We strongly encourage you to take advantage of their experience, wisdom, and openness. James M. Jones, PhD, Principle Investigator, is also a Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware. Dr. Jones has written extensively about race relations over the past 20 years and continues to be a prolific researcher and author. He authored the seminal text Prejudice and Racism and is a member of several editorial boards, including those of the journals, Ethics and Behavior, Journal of Black Psychology, Contemporary Psychology, and the International Journal of International Relations. http://jones.socialpsychology.org/ E-mail Dr. Jones Hortensia Amaro, PhD is a Distinguished Professor at the Bouve College of Health Sciences and the Director of the Institute on Urban Health Research at Northeastern University. Dr. Amaro’s research and extensive scientific publications have illuminated critical issues such as HIV/AIDS prevention and substance abuse and mental health treatment issues for women. Dr. Amaro’s public service encompasses local and national organizations. She serves as Vice Chair of the Board of the Boston Public Health Commission, a member of the National Advisory of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and as a member of several editorial boards of professional journals. http://www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2003/spkrbios/dramaro.htm Kermit A. Crawford, PhD is the Director of the Center for Multicultural Mental Health at the Boston University School of Medicine. His interests include training psychology interns and postdoctoral fellows in the culturally competent practice of professional psychology and working in an academic medical insitution. His research focuses on multicultural issues in all-hazards behavioral health care and the efficacy of mental health services delivered to traumatized populations. Miriam Delphin, PhD is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Cultural Competence and Health Disparities Research and Consultation with the Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) of the Yale University School of Medicine. As Director, Dr. Delphin and a team of PRCH faculty and fellows consult with national, state, and local organizations in a variety of areas related to individual, organizational and service system level cultural competence including such areas as training, program design and evaluation, and systems level strategic planning geared towards eliminating behavioral health disparities. Additional interests include cultural competency training, conducting technology transfer and empowerment evaluation work with grass-roots community based organizations, conducting research exploring ethnic differences in coping and help seeking behavior, and assessing the impact of race and stereotyping biases on the clinical judgment process. Dr. Delphin is the former Interim Executive Co-Director of the National Leadership Council on African American Behavioral Health, Inc (NLC) and currently serves on the Board of the NLC. Terry S. Gock, Ph.D., M.P.A. is the Director of the Asian Pacific Family Center (APFC) in Los Angeles, California. As a division of Pacific Clinics (a private nonprofit behavioral healthcare agency), APFC offers a wide array of culturally competent outpatient mental health services, substance abuse, child abuse, gang/violence, and HIV/AIDS preventive interventions, as well as bicultural parenting and family enhancement programs for the large Asian immigrant populations in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County. Dr. Gock is also a clinical and forensic psychologist in private practice. In addition to being a Past President of APA Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues), he has served as member of the APA Council of Representatives for six years. He had also chaired the Committee on the Structure and Function of Council (CSFC) and the Board for the Advancement of Psychology in Public Interest (BAPPI), as well as served on the Committee on Psychology and AIDS (COPA) and the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns (CLGBC). Dr. Gock has been honored by both the Division of Psychologists in Public Service of the California Psychological Association and the CLGBC of APA. He received the ‘Person of the Year” award from the “Asian Pacific Americans for Human Rights” in 2004 Gordon Nagayama Hall, PhD, Chair of the Advisory Committee, is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. He was previously a professor of psychology at Kent State University and the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests are in the cultural context of psychopathology, particularly sexual aggression. Dr. Hall has grants from the National Institute of Mental Health to study Culture-Specific Models of Men's Sexual Aggression and to study Monocultural vs. Multicultural Academic Acculturation. He coauthored Multicultural Psychology (Prentice-Hall) with Christy Barogan and coedited Asian American Psychology: the Science of Lives in Context (American Psychological Association) with Sumi Okazaki. Dr. Hall was President of the American Psychological Association Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45) and received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Asian American Psychological Association. http://www.uoregon.edu/~gnhall/ Mario Hernandez, PhD is a Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Child & Family Studies. He is a psychologist and Professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida. Since August 1998, Dr. Hernandez has served as Director of the Division of Training, Research, Evaluations and Demonstrations (TREaD) within the Department of Child and Family Studies. In this role, he has provided management and leadership for adivision of 79 professional and support employees. Responsibilities include fiscal management, personnel management, and research development. In addition, Dr. Hernandez has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator on a number of studies. http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/cfs/cfsinfo/staffdetails.cfm?staffID=224 Russell T. Jones, PhD a Professor of Psychology at Virginia Tech University, and a Clinical Psychologist who specializes in clinical child psychology, trauma psychology, and issues related to disaster and terrorism (www.firetrauma.com). He is also an expert in the behavioral sciences. His research concerns the topic of childhood stress and coping, coping with common stressful life events as well as major traumas (i.e., natural and technological disasters).Disaster Preparedness and Post traumatic stress disorder are major areas of study. Assessment, conceptualization, and treatment of consequent psychiatric and psychosocial disorders also serve as a major topic of interest. Co-editor of Behavior Therapy and Black Populations: Psychosocial Issues and Empirical Findings, Dr. Jones has also served as a member of numerous editorial boards and served as a guest reviewer for a variety of medical journals. http://www.angelfire.com/biz/odoc/jones.html Deborah Jones-Saumty, PhD is the Chief Executive Officer for the American Indian Associates in Talihana, OK, and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Jones-Saumty also serves on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Advisory Council Subcommittee on Co-Occurring Addictive and Mental Disorders. Her research focuses on substance abuse and its effects within the American Indian Community. Frederick T. L. Leong, PhD is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His major research interests are vocational psychology (career development of ethnic minorities), cross-cultural psychotherapy (particularly cultural and mental health and cross-cultural psychotherapy), Asian American psychology, and organization behavior. Valerie E. Robinson, MS, LPC is the President & CEO of Cor-Les Consultants (a health education and promotion company) and Cor-Les Institute, Inc. (a national training and education center). Ms. Robinson has worked as a private consultant in the areas of Substance Abuse and Nutritional Health. Ms. Robinson’s areas of expertise include substance abuse treatment and prevention strategies, managing and assessing opiate addiction treatment programs, assessment and development of training programs for substance abuse practitioners. Ms. Robinson has trained nationally and internationally on self-esteem building, substance abuse treatment and prevention strategies, clinical issues in treatment settings, confidentiality and ethical practices, health related issues, culture competency, clinical supervision, group therapy, creative interventions for treatment retention, overweight & obesity in the Black church, combating the Hip-Hop diet among youth, adolescent trauma and violence responder, pediatric HIV/AIDs, health care delivery systems and implementation of mental health programs, and other health related issues. Robert M. Sellers, PhD is a Professor of Psychology and Faculty Associate at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sellers’ current research examines the influence of the interaction between person characteristics and contextual factors on adjustment and behavior. His specific interests focus on the significance and meaning that African Americans attribute to race in their self-definition, and factors associated with the academic and social development of college athletes. Particular attention has been placed on the role of individual motivation, as well as sociodemographic and structural forces. La Pearl Logan Winfrey, PhD is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Dr. La Pearl Logan Winfrey is a professor and Associate Dean for Clinical Training and Psychological Services at the School of Professional Psychology, and the Chief Psychologist for the Pre-Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Residency Programs. Dr. Winfrey received advanced management training at the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration at Bryn Mawr College. She has many years of experience providing psychotherapy to diverse populations and, since 1990, has been involved in the education of doctoral students in schools of professional psychology. Dr. Winfrey is a past chair of the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists and has served on the Association's Board of Directors and National Convention Committee. She was President of the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology (NCSPP), having served as a Council delegate since 1992 and a member of the Ethnic and Racial Diversity and Women's Issues Committees. She was appointed in 2005 for a three year term on the Committee of Accreditation (CoA). She serves as one of two representatives from NCSPP.