Since before last year's convention in San Francisco, representatives from each of APA's 53 divisions, Psi Chi, Psi Beta and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) have been working to plan for the system of "track programming" to debut at APA's 2002 Annual Convention in Chicago.
With the new system, divisions with shared interests collaborate to develop blocks of sessions designed around a theme. Division representatives met in July to identify themes and develop program formats, and worked throughout the fall to fine-tune ideas with help from the Board of Convention Affairs (BCA).
BCA expects the new system will boost attendance at sessions, enable programs to reach a broader audience and attract more members to divisions.
The following is a list of APA members serving as their division's representative to the APA group planning for the new format.
For more information on the new programming format, see the October Monitor or contact APA's Convention Office.
Div. 1 (Society for General Psychology)
Mary Lou Cheal, PhD
Div. 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology)
Virginia Andreoli Mathie, PhD
Div. 3 (Experimental)
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, PhD
Div. 5 (Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics)
Mark Appelbaum, PhD
Div. 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative)
Roger Mellgren, PhD
Div. 7 (Developmental)
Jeffrey J. Lockman, PhD
Div. 8 (Society for Personality and Social Psychology)
Joshua M. Aronson, PhD
Div. 9 (Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues)
Amy Marcus-Newhall, PhD
Div. 10 (Psychology and the Arts)
Frank Farley, PhD
Div. 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology)
Timothy Anderson, PhD
Div. 13 (Society of Consulting Psychology)
Virginia Mullin, PsyD
Div. 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology)
Rosemary Hays-Thomas, PhD
Div. 15 (Educational)
Christopher A. Wolters, PhD
Div. 16 (School)
Rick Short, PhD
Div. 17 (Counseling)
Jean Carter, PhD
Div. 18 (Psychologists in Public Service)
Randy R. Taylor, PhD
Div. 19 (Military)
W. Brad Johnson, PhD
Div. 20 (Adult Development and Aging)
Ronald Abeles, PhD
Div. 21 (Applied Experimental and Engineering)
Douglas Griffith, PhD
Div. 22 (Rehabilitation)
Martha E. Banks, PhD
Div. 23 (Society for Consumer Psychology)
Steve Nowlis, PhD
Div. 24 (Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology)
Tim Zeddies, PhD
Div. 25 (Behavior Analysis)
William V. Dube, PhD
Div. 26 (History)
Andrew Winston, PhD
Div. 27 (Society for Community Research and Action)
Andrea Solarz, PhD
Div. 28 (Psychopharmacologyand Substance Abuse)
Ralph Spiga, PhD
Div. 29 (Psychotherapy)
Gary Y. DeNelsky, PhD
Div. 30 (Society of Psychological Hypnosis)
Katherine N. DuHamel, PhD
Div. 31 (State Psychological Association Affairs)
Robert "Bob" Brown, PhD
Div. 32 (Humanistic)
Arthur Bohart, PhD
Div. 33 (Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities)
Laraine M. Glidden, PhD
Div. 34 (Population and Environmental)
Joseph B. Juhasz, PhD
Div. 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women)
Marlene Maheu, PhD
Div. 36 (Religion)
Ralph L. Piedmont, PhD
Div. 37 (Child, Youth, and Family Services)
Kathy Katz, PhD
Div. 38 (Health)
Mary Davis, PhD
Div. 39 (Psychoanalysis)
Toni Vaugh Heineman, PhD
Div. 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology)
Paula Shear, PhD
Div. 41 (American Psychology-Law Society)
Richard Frederick, PhD
Div. 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice)
Robert L. Wernick, PhD
Div. 43 (Family)
Gary R. Brooks, PhD
Div. 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues)
Doug Haldeman, PhD
Div. 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues)
Janis Sanchez-Hucles, PhD
Div. 46 (Media)
Alan Entin, PhD
Div. 47 (Exercise and Sport)
Penny McCullagh, PhD
Div. 48 (Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence)
Hector Betancourt, PhD
Div. 49 (Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy)
David Drum, PhD
Div. 50 (Addictions)
Kim Fromme, PhD
Div. 51 (Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity)
Fred Rabinowitz, PhD
Div. 52 (International)
Gloria Gottsegen, PhD
Div. 53 (Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology)
Betsy Hoza, PhD
Div. 54 (Society of Pediatric Psychology)
Scott W. Powers, PhD
Div. 55 (American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy)
Gilbert O. Sanders, EdD
Psi Chi
Elizabeth Yost Hammer, PhD
Psi Beta
Tonja Ringgold, EdD
APAGS
Carol Williams, PsyD, and Patrick Bennett
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