Executive Team
President: Susan McDaniel
Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, is the Dr Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families & Health at the University of Rochester Medical Center where she is Chief of Psychology, Director of the Institute for the Family in the Department of Psychiatry, Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and Director of the URMC Physician Communication Coaching Program.
Dr McDaniel’s career is dedicated to integrating psychological and relational science and practice into healthcare. She has won many awards and is the author of over 100 journal articles and 17 books, including Medical Family Therapy, Family-oriented Primary Care, and The Shared Experience of Illness. Her 18th book is In Press, titled Systemic Integrated Care, with Nancy Ruddy PhD. For 12 years, Dr McDaniel was Co-Editor with Tom Campbell MD of the interdisciplinary journal, Families, Systems & Health, Associate Editor for 10 years of the American Psychologist, and is a frequent speaker at national and international medical and mental health meetings.
Dr McDaniel has served in many leadership positions in primary care and mental health associations. Among them, she served as the President of the American Psychological Association in 2016, and currently serves on their Council representing the Society for Health Psychology. She is President of the Practice Division (17) of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and she serves on the policy-focused, interprofessional Board of the Primary Care Collaborative in Washington DC.
President-Elect: Tim Carey
Timothy Carey PhD is a senior Australian academic and Fulbright Scholar who is a researcher, author, teacher, trainer, and clinician. Tim has worked as a clinical psychologist in rural and underserved communities in both Scotland and remote Australia. He has a PhD in Clinical Psychology, an MSc in Statistics, and a PostGraduate Certificate in Biostatistics as well as tertiary qualifications in teaching. His most recent academic roles have been inaugural Director and Professor of the Institute of Global Health Equity Research and the Andrew Weiss Chair of Research in Global Health at the University of Global Health Equity in Rwanda and, before that, Charles Darwin University’s Professor of Clinical Psychology in Health Equity and the Professor and Director of Flinders University’s Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs, Australia. A central focus of his work is the importance of control to health and wellbeing and recognition of internal conflict as a transdiagnostic explanation of psychological distress. He is passionate about integrated primary care services. Tim is also very interested in different cultural explanations of psychological distress and the importance of control cross-culturally. He has pioneered clinical innovations such as patient-led appointment scheduling and patient-perspective care. He has developed an efficient and effective cognitive therapy called the Method of Levels (www.methodoflevels.com.au) as well as a smartphone app called MindSurf. Tim has provided conference presentations and delivered training events in Australia, Canada, Chile, NZ, Rwanda, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, the UK, and the US. He has over 175 publications including books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles and a blog on Psychology Today called In Control which has had over 1.34 million views where he writes about general topics related to successful and contented day to day living.
Immediate Past President: Dr. Robyn Vines
BA Hons, MSc (Clin.Psych.), PhD, FAPS, FIAAP, GAICD
Robyn is a clinical and health psychologist who has practiced both internationally and in Australia over many years. She undertook her undergraduate training at Melbourne and Carleton (Ottawa) Universities, her Masters of Science (MSc) in Clinical Psychology at Aberdeen University in Scotland, and her PhD at The University of Sydney. She worked in the NHS as a Clinical Psychologist at University College Hospital, London before returning to Australia as Assistant Director and Head of Clinical Services at the Cairnmillar Institute, later as Head of Student Services at Swinburne University in Melbourne and subsequently at the University of NSW in Sydney. In both Melbourne and Sydney, she ran large clinical practices after hours whilst working full-time in the university sector. Robyn was appointed Director of the Psychological Services Centre at Charles Sturt University (Bathurst) where she was Chief Investigator on a Commonwealth Government of Australia evaluation of integrated psychological service delivery in primary care: ‘The Clinical Psychology in General Practice Project’.
She moved (for family reasons) to the United Arab Emirates as Supervisor Student Services, Dubai Women's College and later Middle School Counselor at the Dubai American Academy. From there she was closely involved in the 2005/06 lobbying of the Australian government for the introduction of Medicare rebates for psychologists under the public mental health system. Upon returning to Australia, she resumed practice as a clinical and health psychologist in regional primary care and was appointed to the School of Medicine at the University of Western Sydney.
Robyn has served in numerous leadership positions in Australia and internationally - including three elected terms on the Board of Directors of the Australian Psychological Society, two terms on the NSW Psychology Council and one term (ongoing) as the Minister for Health appointee as NSW Practitioner Member on the Psychology Board of Australia. She has served as President-Elect (2014-2018), President (2018-2022) and Immediate-Past President (2022-2024) of the IAAP’s Division of Professional Practice - and retains a keen interest in professional practice standards for psychology practitioners.
Robyn is a passionate advocate for the role of psychology in integrated primary mental health care, to facilitate optimal outcomes for patients and universal health care for all. She is currently a Conjoint Associate Professor at the Western Sydney University’s School of Medicine, teaching the benefits of collaborative models of mental and general health care and supervising Doctorate of Medicine research projects focused on integrated service delivery models.
Past President: James Bray
Diana Prescott
Dr. Diana L. Prescott completed her BA in Psychology and Spanish at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. She earned an MA and PhD in Psychology with a Clinical major, minors in Developmental and Community Psychology, and a Rural Community Psychology (NIMH-funded) specialty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She completed a predoctoral internship at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Prescott is a licensed psychologist in Indiana and Maine. She was previously employed at St. Mary’s Medical Center and The Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine. Dr. Prescott has also worked as adjunct faculty for the University of Evansville. She served as a consultant for Eastern Maine Medical Center (EMMC) (Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics, Pediatric Traumatic Stress Project).
Dr. Prescott directs a rural health consulting practice evaluating and treating women and children (Hampden Psychological Consultation, PLLC; Hampden Psychological Properties, LLC). She has developed the integrated behavioral health component of EMMC’s pediatric obesity program, Way to Optimal Weight (WOW). She supervised clinical psychology doctoral students through WOW, The Acadia Hospital, and the Psychological Services Center at the University of Maine-Orono as an adjunct professor.
Dr. Prescott has chaired the Maine Migrant Health Program and served on the Maine Primary Care Association board. She chaired the APA Committee on Rural Health. She has been elected to the APA Council of Representatives, representing the Maine Psychological Association (MePA). She has represented MePA on the Committee for Women in Psychology Network and as a Rural Health Coordinator. She received the APAPO Federal Advocacy Award and served on the Committee of State Leaders. In 2023, she was awarded a Presidential Citation for her work in rural health at the APA Grassroots Capitol Hill Fly-In.
Dr. Diana L. Prescott has served as Member at Large and Recording Secretary on the APA Board of Directors. She has volunteered as Federal Advocacy Coordinator for MePA for nearly 20 years, advocating for science, education, practice, public interest, and applied psychology. She was chosen to participate in the APA Integrated Primary Care Advisory Group as well as the Integrated Specialty Care Advisory Group.
Dr. Prescott has presented on rural integrated care at the European Congress of Psychology in Milan, Italy; the International Congress of Psychology in Yokohama, Japan; the 3rd Congress for the Order of Portuguese Psychologists in Porto, Portugal; the 15th European Congress of Psychology (ECP) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the International Congress of Applied Psychology (IAAP) in Montreal, Canada; the 17th ECP in Ljubliana, Slovenia; and the 18th ECP in Brighton, UK. Dr. Prescott is serving as Member at Large on the IAAP Board of Directors and Secretary of Professional Practice Division 17. She and her psychologist husband, Dr. David Prescott, have three daughters.
Joseph Kalisa
Nancy Ruddy
Judith Gullifer
Professor Judith Gullifer is the Director of Education in the School of Psychological Science at Monash University, Australia. She held the inaugural position of Associate Dean (Partners and Quality) at Charles Sturt University and was also the foundation Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences at Charles Sturt University. Judith has spent over a decade dedicated to education and research in the higher education sector. Judith also held the position of the Executive Manager and Head of the Australian Psychological Society’s Training Institute where she oversaw the professional education and training of psychologists and other cognate professions in Australia. She has held various positions with the Australian Psychological Society, having been appointed to the Board of Directors in 2016 for her expertise in working in Regional, Rural and Remote Australia. She was a founding member of the Rural, Regional and Remote Advisory Group to the National Board of Directors and is the current convener of the Australian Psychological Society Rural and Remote Interest Group and the Secretary of the Australian Psychological Society Melbourne Branch. Judith is a registered psychologist with a background in professional practice working in rural and remote Australia. She now manages a small virtual, part-time practice, as a perinatal psychologist delivering services through telehealth
Christine Jehu
