Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, ABPP
Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, ABPP, is a member of the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology, is the Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Director of the Institute for the Family in Psychiatry, and Associate Chair of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. She is known for her publications in the areas of behavioral health and primary care, genetic conditions and family dynamics, and doctor-patient communication. She is a frequent speaker at meetings of both health and mental health professionals.
She has published 85 peer-reviewed journal articles and co-authored or co-edited 12 books, including:
Systems Consultation (1986),
Family-Oriented Primary Care (1990 and 2005),
Medical Family Therapy (1992),
Integrating Family Therapy (1995),
Counseling Families with Chronic Illness (1995),
The Shared Experience of Illness (1997),
The Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy (2001),
The Biopsychosocial Approach (2003), Primary Care Psychology (2004), and
Family Therapy (2009).
Several have been translated into 11 different languages, and one is exclusively in German. Until January, for 12 years, Dr. McDaniel was co-editor, with Thomas Campbell, M.D., of the multidisciplinary journal, Families, Systems & Health. She is now an Associate Editor of the American Psychologist, and serves on several other journal boards.
In 1998 Dr. McDaniel was the first psychologist to be a Fellow in the Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship. She has held many national offices: she was Chair of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education in 1998, President of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association in 1999, Chair of the Publications and Communications Board for the American Psychological Association in 2004. She now serves on the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives and the Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice, and the Board of the American Family Therapy Academy.
Dr. McDaniel was recognized by the American Psychological Association as the 1995 Family Psychologist of the Year. In 1998, she received the Academic Mentoring award from the School of Medicine at the University of Rochester. In 2000 she received the award for Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy from the American Family Therapy Academy, and in 2004 she received the Association for Medical Psychologists Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching. Most recently, in 2008 Dr. McDaniel received the prestigious Cummings Foundation PSYCHE prize for her contributions to integrated mental and physical healthcare, and in 2009 the Psychologist of the Year from the Genesee Valley Psychological Association.
