Barry S. Anton, PhD, ABPP

Experts from around the world met November 2–5, 2015, at APA headquarters in Washington, D.C., with the goal of improving health through enhanced collaboration. 

Some 85 psychologists, physicians, public health workers and policy analysts met in person for the interdisciplinary summit "Global Approaches to Integrated Health Care: Translating Science and Best Practices into Patient-Centered Healthcare Delivery" at APA's Capitol View Conference Center. They were outnumbered by virtual attendees—more than 400 colleagues around the world—who viewed the proceedings during the 2 ½-day event via a live video simulcast.

In all, viewers from 42 countries and 33 U.S. states watched as summit speakers explored issues impacting health, models of care delivery, barriers to access and health disparities, the use of technology in delivering services and the patient experience and empowerment.

The objectives of the summit were to:

• Share best practices and innovations across disciplines, health care professions, health care settings and countries.
• Through shared understanding of “patient-centered care,” enhance public expectations (and appetite) for integration of health services.;
• Bring together un-likeminded people, stakeholders across the health care domain in order to move progress.
• Galvanize next steps that are more collaborative and more innovative.
• Inform funding for needed research.
• Produce opportunities for continued learning for healthcare professionals about integrated and patient-centered care.

Videos of all keynotes, panels and working group recommendations are available on APA's YouTube channel, displayed in the video window above. Just choose the video segment you want to view.

For details about the topics and the experts who joined in the discussions, view the program (PDF, 1.34MB)opens in new window.

Read the full summary (PDF, 136KB)opens in new window.

Below are members of the 2015 APA Presidential Cabinet.

Jean Carter, PhD

Carter has maintained a psychotherapy practice in Washington, D.C., since receiving her PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Maryland in 1980. Although she is active throughout psychology, her primary commitment and ongoing passion are for the practice of psychotherapy.

Carter serves as vice chair of the APA Finance Committee and is a member of the council representing Division 29 (Psychotherapy). She has served as president of three divisions and is a former member of the Board of Directors. Carter is an adjunct faculty member in counseling psychology at the University of Maryland. She served as an associate editor for Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, is on the editorial board of Psychotherapy, and is on the publications board of Division 29.

Carter is a fellow in five divisions of APA and is a distinguished practitioner of the National Academies of Practice. Her awards include Distinguished Psychologist (Division. 42, Psychologists in Independent Practice), APA Presidential Citations and both the John D. Black Practitioner Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Practice of Counseling Psychology and the Best Practices Award from the Society of Counseling Psychology.

Armand Cerbone, PhD, ABPP

Cerbone has been in independent practice in Chicago since 1978. He is a fellow of seven divisions of the American Psychological Association and holds an American Board of Professional Psychology diplomate in clinical psychology. He co-authored the APA’s  Guidelines on Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients and the APA’s policies on same-sex marriage and same-sex families. He is a former member of the APA Board of Directors, past-president of Division 44 (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity) and the Illinois Psychological Association, and chair of the Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest and APA’s Ethics Committee. He is chair of the Ethics Committee and serves on the boards of Divisions 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice) and 29 (Psychotherapy). He is a former director of behavioral health at the Howard Brown Memorial Health Center and core faculty at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology. In 2001, he co-chaired the first international conference on lesbian, gay and bisexual psychology. 

Miguel E. Gallardo, PsyD

Gallardo is an associate professor of psychology and director of Aliento, The Center for Latina/o Communities at Pepperdine University. He maintains an independent/consultation practice where he conducts therapy with adolescents and adults. Gallardo’s areas of scholarship and research interests include understanding the psychotherapy process when working with ethnocultural communities, particularly the Latina/o community, and in understanding the processes by which individuals develop cultural awareness and responsiveness. Gallardo is director of research and evaluation for the Orange County Multiethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies, a non-profit organization dedicated to serving monolingual Arab, Farsi, Korean, Vietnamese and Spanish speaking communities. Gallardo has published refereed journal articles, book chapters and books in the areas of multicultural psychology, Latina/o psychology, ethics and evidence-based practices. Gallardo is serving a governor-appointed position on the California Board of Psychology. Gallardo is a fellow of the American Psychological Association.

Barry A. Hong, PhD, ABPP

Hong is a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine. He holds joint appointments in the department of internal medicine and in the department of psychology. He is the vice-chairman for clinical affairs in psychiatry and the chief psychologist for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Hong has been an investigator of dialysis patients and conducts studies of living donors. He has been a consultant with the United Network of Organ Sharing and the Division of Transplantation (Health Resources and Services Administration). His research funded by the National Institutes of Health concerns living organ donors, hepatitis C behavioral treatments and the study of interstitial cystitis. 

Hong is a fellow of the American Psychological Association in health and clinical psychology. He is a diplomate in clinical psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Martin Y. Iguchi, PhD

Iguchi is professor in the departments of psychology and international health, Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. He received his PhD in experimental psychology from Boston University and an AB from Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Recent positions include: dean and professor, School of Nursing & Health Studies, Georgetown University; chair and professor, department of community health sciences, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health; and director, Drug Policy Research Center, RAND Corp. Iguchi is a member of the APA Board of Scientific Affairs, as well as the APA Health Disparities Steering Committee. He is a former member of APA's Board of Professional Affairs, as well as the Division 50 (Society of Addiction Psychology) Board of Directors. He is a fellow in Division 6 (Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology), Division 28 (Society for Psychopharmacology and Substance Use), and Division 50. He is a senior editor of Addiction, and serves on the editorial boards of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Journal of Drug Issues and Journal of Drug Policy Analysis.

Joshua G. Kellison

Kellison is completing his internship at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital (Child Track) from the clinical psychology doctoral program at Arizona State University with an emphasis on children and families. His overarching research interests involve minority (both sexual and racial minorities) family dynamics, but also include gender studies, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning and intersex (LGBTQI) community interventions, and Hispanic health issues. Kellison has presented on LGBTQI topics at national conferences, and has provided several professional trainings on serving the health care needs of LGBTQI youth and their families. Combined with his experiences as a past member of the APAGS Executive Committee, member for the APAGS Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, APAGS liaison to the APA Board of Education, and APA Division 44’s chair (Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity) for the Health Initiatives Task Force have provided him with the requisite skills to collaborate with professionals across different areas of interest to achieve the common goals and initiatives of the APA and 2015 APA President Barry S. Anton, PhD. 

Keely Kolmes, PsyD

Kolmes is a licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. She was formerly the digital director for APA Division 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice) and serves on the Ethics Committee of the California Psychological Association. She serves as president and treasurer of Bay Area Open Minds, a psychotherapist group she founded for clinicians who work with sexual and gender diversity. She writes, does research, and provides consultation and training on clinical and ethical issues related to social networking and technology. Her private practice social media policy has been internationally cited across health disciplines. She has published a New York Times op-ed on the challenge of consumer reviews of mental health services and has been quoted in The Washington Post, Forbes, BBC News, and HuffPostLive on the internet, ethics and mental health. (See more at her websiteopens in new window .)

Emil R. Rodolfa, PhD

Rodolfa is a professor of psychology at Alliant International University’s California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) in Sacramento. Prior to joining the faculty at CSPP, he worked at University of California Davis and Humboldt State University Counseling and Psychological Services, Arcata, California.

He is a fellow of the APA, a fellow of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB), founding editor of Training and Education in Professional Psychology^® and a past president of the State of California Board of Psychology. Rodolfa has served as a president of ASPPB, chair of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, chair of the Council of Chairs of Training Councils (CCTC), president of the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies (ACCTA), and a member of the governing board of the Association of University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD). He is a member of the APA Commission on Accreditation and chair of the ASPPB Assessment of Competency Task Force.

Rodolfa received the Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award from APA, the ASPPB Norma Simon Award for distinguished contributions to psychology licensure on a national level, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the AUCCCD, the John D. Black Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Practice of Counseling Psychology from the APA Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17), the Educational Advocacy Distinguished Service Award from the APA Board of Educational Affairs, the Helen Roehlke Distinguished Service Award from ACCTA and the Paul Nelson Award from the CCTC for his “outstanding leadership in professional psychology education and training, collaboration with colleagues throughout the profession, and dedication to assuring competence in new psychologists.”

Erin Schoenfelder, PhD

Schoenfelder is an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She practices at Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she works primarily with children and adolescents with ADHD, disruptive behaviors and anxiety disorders. Her clinical work primarily involves cognitive and behavioral treatments for children and adolescents and behavior management training for caregivers of youth with ADHD. Schoenfelder is also involved in training students and residents in clinical psychology and pediatrics through Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Program to Evaluate and Enhance Attention, Regulation and Learning Clinic. Her research interests focus on strategies for engaging families in multimodal treatments, as well as family-based prevention of health risk behaviors in youth with ADHD. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Arizona State University and previously trained and worked in the Duke ADHD Program at Duke University Medical Center.

Nadia Webb, PsyD, ABPdN, ABN

Webb is a medical “prescribing” psychologist, double-boarded neuropsychologist, executive director of the American Academy of Pediatric Neuropsychology, and member of the executive committee of the Illinois Psychological Association. Webb’s first license was as a family therapist, which launched a commitment to systemic change—particularly the development of integrative care models serving individuals with neurobehavioral impairments, their families and the medical providers and communities that care for them.

Webb took a position at a Children’s Hospital in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. She was able to blend elements from neuropsychological, clinical and medical psychology to serve medically fragile children. She prescribed at the request of physician colleagues from the intensive care unit, neurology, neurosurgery, gastroenterology and outpatient clinics. She serves as a member of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Education and Training of Prescribing Psychologists, which has been tasked with integrating the best aspects of New Mexico, Louisiana and Department of Defense models. She has also been building national infrastructure to support safe prescribing, creating the first national peer consultation email list for prescribing psychologists.

As a neuropsychologist, she remains committed to improving the quality of life for neurologically compromised children. She is a professor at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, bringing rigorous training in clinical neuropsychology and psychopharmacology to doctoral level school psychologists. Webb also serves as board examiner for the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology.

APA President Barry S. Anton, PhD, ABPP, presented Presidential Citations to outstanding psychologists. View the 2015 Presidential Citation awardees.