Mary Casey Jacob, PhD
Mary Casey Jacob, PhD, is a member of the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989 after completing an internship in Health Psychology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in West Haven, CT, and was an ELAM fellow in 2005/2006. Her clinical activities and research were in the area of chronic pain management at the VAMC in West Haven, CT until 1991. Since then she has worked exclusively within reproductive medicine at the Center for Advanced Reproductive Services at the UCONN School of Medicine. Dr. Jacob’s leadership roles are varied.
Within the educational domain, Dr. Jacob was the UCONN site training director for the Hartford Consortium Psychology Internship from 1993 to 1998 and then became the course director in the medical and dental schools basic science curriculum, where she presently serves.
Within the clinical domain, Dr. Jacob developed UCONN services for women with chronic pelvic pain and served as one of three faculty members who developed a very successful donor egg program at the Center for Advanced Reproductive Services.
Within the domains of administration and faculty affairs, Dr. Jacob chaired a Joint School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine Councils’ Task Force on Women’s Pay Equity that resulted in parity pay increases for a significant number of women (1993-1995), chaired the self-study sub-committee on Governance and Administration for the 2003 Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) re-accreditation, successfully led an effort to write completely new Bylaws for the UCONN School of Medicine (2003-2005), and implemented the new bylaws and now oversees their operations. She also chaired six searches for new faculty members and was chosen to be a member of the search committee that has recently identified the new Dean of the UCONN School of Medicine and Vice President for Health Affairs of the UCONN Health Center. In addition, Dr. Jacob developed and implemented routine reviews of departments and inter-department centers, developed workshops for faculty on academic advancement, worked with UCONN’S information technology department to develop an electronic voting mechanism using the single transferable voting method, and worked with the School of Dental Medicine to develop a joint faculty handbook. She also charged a working group to develop a Leadership Academy, and is currently managing the self-study process for the upcoming 2010 LCME re-accreditation of the medical school.
Dr. Jacob has also provided services to the Mental Health Professional Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM MHPG). She wrote the application and obtained approval for the ASRM MHPG to serve as an APA approved sponsor for continuing education for psychologists (1994) and has continued to serve as the administrator of that program to the present. She is also the chair of the annual meeting abstract committee for the ASRM MHPG in 1999 and 2006 and served on the abstract committee for the four years preceding each of those appointments. In addition, Dr. Jacob chaired the newly created By-laws, Policies and Procedures Committee and successfully led the effort to rewrite the group’s bylaws (2004-2006).
Dr. Jacob was the recipient of the Timothy B. Jeffrey Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Health Psychology awarded by Division 38 of the APA in 2006 and the recipient of a certificate of recognition for “Generations of Women Moving History Forward”, awarded by the Women’s History Program at the University of Connecticut Health Center, in 2007.
