Science

• Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida for the past eight years. Under my leadership we developed a strong, highly funded research department that now has over $9 million in annual research expenditures and a total research portfolio that has grown to almost $20 million. Besides its research and teaching missions, The Department also has "24-7" clinical responsibilities for a large hospital and community-based clinical practice serving a diverse patient population in rural Florida with many evidence-based treatment programs. The Department has both an APA accredited doctoral program and internship in clinical psychology. My Department was named the 2001 APAGS Department of the Year.
• Founded the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings and served as editor for 13 years.
• Published five books on health psychology along with numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles.
• Served as the APA Board of Directors liaison to the Board of Scientific Affairs, The Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, & Cognitive Sciences, and The Consortium of Social Science Associations.
• Served on a work group that evaluated APA's Research Office
• 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.
• 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.
• External Dissertation reader for the Behavioral Medicine Program, Medical School, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Congella, South Africa (2005)
• Grant proposal reviewer for the Prevention Programme, The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development, The Hague, The Netherlands.