GeraldLeventhal

Summary

• I am a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (Dept. of Psychiatry). Though retired since 2014, I provide clinical supervision and teach classes for psychiatry residents. Also, I am active in APAHC (Association of Psychologists in Academic Medical Centers); also served as APAHC President and served on Board of Directors of Association of Psychology Postdoctoral & Internship Centers. From 2013-2017, I served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. Re current research, I am first author of a manuscript reporting results from a survey of psychologists' patterns of interprofessional collaboration conducted by American Psychological Association's Center for Workforce Studies. At the APAHC March 2021 conference, I am presenting on psychologists' role in training psychiatry residents in psychotherapy. Looking back in time, my original doctoral training was as an academically-oriented social psychology researcher; I received my PhD in that specialty from Duke University in 1962. From 1963-1979, I taught and conducted research at North Carolina State University, and then at Wayne State University where I held the rank of full Professor. From 1965-1979, my research on equity theory (fairness in social relationships) was funded by National Science Foundation grants. From 1975-1980, I published invited book chapters based on my research, of which are still being cited 40 years later. In the late 1970's, I changed specialties within psychology. After competing clinical courses at the University of Windsor, from 1979-1981, I spent 2 years in formal retraining as a clinical psychologist at Yale University Medical School's Department of Psychiatry. Events that came after those years of retraining are summarized in the first half of this biographical statement.