Education

• I was elected Chair of the APA's Board of Educational Affairs
• I chaired the BEA's Advisory Council on Accreditation that drafted recommendations leading to the reorganization of the Committee on Accreditation to become the APA Commission on Accreditation
• I served as both the BEA and APA Board of Directors' liaison to the Committee on Accreditation for three years
• I have served two years as the Board of Directors' liaison to the Commission on the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology
• Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida for the past eight years. The Department has both an APA accredited graduate program and APA accredited internship in clinical psychology.  The Department has a faculty of 35, "24-7" clinical responsibility to the patients of our Health Science Center, and a yearly expenditure of over $9 million in external research funding.
• I now serve as the Associate Dean for International Programs in the College of Public Health and Health Professions while continuing my clinical supervision, classroom teaching, direct service, and research interests.
•  Named the Distinguished Educator, The Association of Medical School Psychologists, Section 8 of Division 12, The Society for Clinical Psychology, The American Psychological Association - 2001
• Named the "Classroom Teacher of the Year;" Presented by the graduate students of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida - 2001
• Awarded "The Hugh C. Davis - Psychotherapy Supervision Award;" Presented by the graduate students of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida - 2001
• Chairperson of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, awardee of the “Year 2001 - American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) Department of the Year”
• Presented "The Scientist Practitioner: Back to the Future of Clinical Psychology" as Invited Plenary Presentation at The Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology of the United Kingdom, Annual Conference. Oxford, England. July, 2001
• Established international educational exchange programs with the University of Oxford and the University of Jordan
• I chaired the Board of Directors' Task Force on Work Force analysis that resulted in funding for the APA's Center for Work Force Analysis and Research. This Center will allow Psychology [1] to collect the data necessary to truly understand the career "pipeline" for all branches of psychology, [2] help provide data to advise students about career opportunities and "supply and demand" for training and career trajectories, and [3] help Psychology provide data necessary to educate public policy officials as we seek increased research funding, additional training funding, and improved support for services provision and public service programs.
• Served as an APA representative to the NIMH Panel on integrating behavioral science research and public health research. Published a consensus document:  Muehrer, P, Afifi, A. Coyne, J., Kring, A., Merson, M., Prohaska, T., and Rozensky, R. (2002). Research on Mental Disorders: Overcoming Barriers to Collaborations Between Basic Behavioral Scientists and Public Health Scientists. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 9, 252-262.
• External Dissertation reader for the Behavioral Medicine Program, Medical School, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Congella, South Africa (2005)