Prior to retirement, I was the UAA Program Director of the University of Alaska Ph.D. Program in Clinical-Community Psychology. I received my Ph.D. in clinical psychology with specialization in behavior therapy from Georgia State University. Prior to my university position, I was Chief Psychologist, Training Director, and Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Coordinator at the Alaska VA Healthcare System, and Chief of the Chemical Dependence Treatment Program at the Jackson VA Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In all of these positions, I have provided Motivational Interviewing training to psychologists, psychology interns, tobacco treatment specialists, primary care physicians, addictions counselors, diabetes educators, social workers, and other clinicians. I was co-co-principal investigator in a CDC-funded multi-site study (Project START) that demonstrated the efficacy of multi-session community reintegration sessions using motivational enhancement strategies to lower HIV risk among young men released from prison.
