E. Thomas Dowd was awarded a Presidential Citation for his dedicated service to the American Board of Professional Psychology and the American Psychological Association.
Dowd served as program director at Florida State, Nebraska, and Kent State Universities. At Kent State, Dowd was interim chair of the psychology department as well as faculty senate chair. He served on multiple university boards and committees. Dowd is an APA fellow, a long-term member of the APA and Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and served on the APA Div. 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) executive board. Dowd served two terms on the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Professional Psychology and as a founding member of the American Board of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, he served three terms as president. Internationally, Dowd is a professor in the International Institute of Babes-Bolyai University in Romania and a distinguished visiting scholar at Rhodes University in South Africa, taught at the University of Leipzig in Germany, and has presented in Turkey, Israel, Argentina and China. Dowd has written seven books, authored 55 chapters and over 250 articles. Dowd is a sought after speaker, having presented over 250 times at national and international conferences.