DIVISION 40 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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The mission of the Program Committee is to plan, review, and carry out the Division’s component of the American Psychological Association Convention program. Members of this committee suggest program themes and invited speakers, design the call for abstracts, conduct blind reviews of submissions, and chair sessions at the APA convention.

2007 APA Program for Division 40

APA 2007 Program has been finalized.  Please note that we have a selection of keynote and invited speakers who are known for their outstanding work in neuroscience.  Please review below for the full range of topics.

The meeting will be held over a weekend, Friday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday (August 17-20, 2007).   The program lists the times and locations for each presentation.
 
Please note that the sessions will be held either in the Moscone Center or the San Francisco Marriott Hotel.  The Hospitality Suite location has not been assigned by APA as of this message but will likely be either at the Hilton San Francisco or the Marriott. 

CE credit will be available for several of the sessions. Specific CE information will be available in the near future.

Symposia / Discussion / Workshops:

  • Criminalization of clinicians: How to protect yourself
  • The new testing codes: Problems, audits, practice, and training models
  • Training in clinical neuropsychology
  • En Espanol Por Favor: Assessment of Spanish speaking clients
  • Neuroimaging implications for the biofeedback treatment of substance abuse.
  • Ethical and interdisciplinary issues in medical and rehabilitation populations.
  • Promoting transdisciplinary and translational research in neuropsychology
  • Social competence in children with neurologic conditions.
  • Prenatal tobacco exposure: Impact on cognitive and emotional processes
  • Implementing diversity training in graduate student assessment and neuropsychology programs
  • Careers in neuropsychology
  • Interviewing for Internships – Tips on how to shine

Keynote and Invited Speakers:

  • Dr. Jeffrey Cummings: The neuropsychiatry of Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Dr. Robert Butler: Pediatric brain injury rehabilitation: The new standard of care
  • Dr. Keith Yeates: Traumatic brain injury in children: An exemplar for developmental neuropsychology
  • Dr. Laurence Binder: Neuropsychological abnormalities are not diagnostic of acquired brain dysfunction
  • Dr. Edith Sullivan: Neuroimaging contributions to neuropsychology: Perspectives from aging and alcoholism research
  • Dr. Stephen Rao: Role of fMRI in preclinical detection of neurodegenerative disorders
  • Dr. Ronald Petersen: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Is it Alzheimer’s Disease?
  • Dr. Bruce Miller: Frontotemporal dementia: Insights into social cognition.
  • Dr. Carl Dodrill:  What can we do to improve our profession?
  • Dr. Eileen Fennel: Behavioral issues in pediatric epilepsy
  • Dr. Antuonio Puente: The neuropsychological interview and testing codes: Rationale, evolution, complications, and current status
  • Dr. David Schretlen:  Method and logic of inference in psychodiagnostic testing: What is an abnormal neuropsychological examination

    The following sessions submitted by Division 40 will offer Continuing Education (CE) credit during the 2007 APA Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA:
  • Workshop: En Español por Favor--- Assessment of Spanish-Speaking Clients
  • Symposium: Implementing Diversity Training in Graduate Student Assessment and Neuropsychology Programs
  • Symposium: Prenatal Tobacco Exposure---Impact on Cognitive and Emotional Processes Across Development
  • Symposium: Promoting Transdisciplinary and Translational Research in Neuropsychology
  • Invited Address: Laurence M. Binder, PhD
  • Invited Address: Edith V. Sullivan, PhD
  • Invited Address: Stephen M. Rao, PhD
  • Invited Address: Keynote Address-Robert Butler, PhD
  • Invited Address: Ronald Petersen, MD, PhD
  • Invited Address: Bruce L. Miller, MD
  • Invited Address: Carl B. Dodrill, PhD

DIVISION 40 – PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Julie Bobholz, Ph.D. (chair)
Michael Basso, Ph.D. (co-chair)
Emily Richardson, Ph.D.
Susan McPherson, Ph.D.
Steven Paul Woods, Psy.D.
Rishi Bhalla, Ph.D.
Gina Rehkemper, Ph.D.
Beth Slomine, Ph.D.
Scott Hunter, Ph.D.
Michael Lavoie, Ph.D.
Keith Hawkins, Psy.D.
Elizabeth Ryan, Ph.D.
Tricia Zawacki King, Ph.D.
Eric Larson, Ph.D.
Anna Bacon Moore, Ph.D.
Stephen Miller, Ph.D.
Robert Perna, Ph.D.
Jill T. Caffrey, Ph.D.
Aaron Malina, Ph.D.
Tara Lineweaver, Ph.D.
Paul Malloy, Ph.D.
Christina Wilson, Ph.D.
Robert Dallas Jones, Ph.D.
Adam Brickman, Ph.D.
Sally Frutiger, Ph.D.