CSULB Department of Psychology
Successful Masters Alumni
Harvey Wichman earned the first Master's Degree awarded by the CSULB
Psychology department, and was, until he recently retired, a Professor at
Claremont Graduate School and Director of the Aerospace Psychology Lab which
studies manned space flight.
http://www.spacetransportation.org/library.htm
James Alexander received a Master's degree at CSULB and his PhD from
Michigan State. Currently a Professor at the University of Utah, he developed a
major model of Family Therapy.
http://www.psych.utah.edu/alexander/alexander.html
Sonia Ancoli-Israel is a research psychologist at the San Diego V.A.
and Professor of Psychiatry at UC San Diego. She is a world authority on
sleep disorders and author of All I Want is a Good Night's Sleep.
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/ask/sleepandalzheimers.html
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/awards/02-07Ancoli-Israel.asp
Jeffrey J. Annon (MAR) is the Director of the
Data Management Center for
the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP).
He oversees the data capture, management, reporting, and cleaning for more than
20 ISAP projects. Prior to this, he was a part of the UCLA Methamphetamine
Treatment Project, which compared treatments for methamphetamine abuse in five
cities in the United States. He was also the Project Director for the UCLA
LAAM project, which compared methadone and levo-alpha-acetyl methadol (LAAM)
treatment of heroin addicts in Los Angeles. Mr. Annon has been with the
UCLA Drug Abuse Research Center (which, with other entities, became ISAP in
1999) since 1990, working on various research projects.
http://www.isapdmc.org/asp/staff.asp
T. Kiku Annon (MAR) currently works for WestEd as a Research Assistant in the Health and Human Development Program, which does school based research in ATOD use, Bullying and Harassment, Health/Nutrition/Exercise, and Risk and Protective Factors.
Adam Bank (MAR) earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Wayne State University in 2001. He completed his predoctoral internship at the Miami VA Medical Center in 2000, and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Geropsychology at the Boston VA Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School in 2002. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Center on Aging at the University of Miami School of Medicine. His current research focuses on aging, technology, and assessment and treatment of late-life depression in minorities.
Marsha Baucom (MAR) received her
law degree from
Western State University. She created her own Law Practice in 1991 and
specializes in Family Law.
http://www.baucomlaw.com/
Israel Ben-Tzur (IO) founded
StePac in 1992 and has
been managing it as CEO. He studied for a PhD at Claremont University.
http://www.stepac.com/content.asp?id=142
Allen Berger (MAR) completed his PhD in Clinical Psychology at UC Davis, and has done considerable work in Sports Psychology as applied to tennis. Over the past thirty years he has been working in the addiction field. He has had a pamphlet published by Hazelden that is currently being utilized nationwide in treatment programs to indoctrinate the new patient in the process of group therapy in order to maximize the patient's results from this therapeutic modality. He has also recently been notified that Health Communications Inc. has agreed to publish his book on making relationships work.
Leann Birch is Head and Chair of the Department of Human Development
and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, and an authority on
children's eating preferences and disorders.
http://nutrition.hhdev.psu.edu/grad/faculty/birch.html
Devin Blizzard (MAR) is an Administrator and Principal of Copper Hills
Elementary School in Clovis, CA. He earned an additional MS in MFCC at San
Jose State and went on to work in an East San Jose Clinic. From there he
was recruited into school leadership and worked at downtown area middle schools.
He also started a number of FIRST Robotics teams in Silicon Valley, and has
recently served as the Central California representative to
FIRST and
FIRST LEGO
robotics.
http://www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/map/copper_hills.htm
Michael Brannick (IO)
joined
Thomson Prometric as president and Chief Executive Officer in June 2001,
focusing on expanding
Thomson Prometric's presence
in the rapidly growing testing and certification market. He also serves on
the Brainbench board
of directors.
http://www.prometric.com/PressRoom/PressKit/Bios/MichaelBrannick.htm
http://www.prometric.com/PressRoom/brainbench.htm
David
Chaudron (IO) is managing partner of
Organized Change.
He has taught at UCSD, Chapman and Alliant International Universities. He
received his doctorate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from United
States International University.
http://www.organizedchange.com/bio.htm
Brenna Chirby received her PsyD from the American School of
Professional Psychology in Virginia, and is a licensed Clinical Psychologist.
She is currently serving as the Director of Counseling Services at the
Art Institute of
Washington. She is also teaching full time in the doctoral program at
Argosy
University.
http://www.thestonehouse.ws/bchirby.htm
Michael Fakinos (MAR) completed his doctoral work in Counseling
Psychology at Ball State University in Indiana, and is currently serving as a
Professor of Psychology at the Athens, Greece campus of La Verne University.
He has been studying eating disorders in
Greek women.
http://www.ulv.edu/academicaffairs/facultydirectory/faculty.phtml?u_id=182
David L. Falkstein (MAR) obtained his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of North Texas. He is a Licensed Psychologist and Specialist in School Psychology, working for Allen ISD in Texas and maintaining a part-time private practice in Sherman, Texas. In his private practice, Dr. Falkstein specializes in child and adolescent clinical psychology with a focus on differential diagnosis and evaluation of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the treatment of childhood and adolescent emotional and behavioral disorders. Dr. Falkstein is also the psychologist for the Child Guidance Clinic of Texoma in Sherman, Texas. He has worked in the mental health field for over 15 years.
Joanne Cosmos Finn (MAR) is currently working at Mt. Diablo Unified School District, Concord, CA, as a school psychologist. Currently is involved with elementary school and crisis team. Previously middle school and adult transition program (18 to 22 year olds) experience. She completed a school psychology credential program here at CSULB as well.
Claudia Geer (MAR) is an
Associate Professor at
Southwest College. She completed her doctorate at the University of
California at Davis in Personality/Social Psychology.
http://www.sckans.edu/psychology/index.php?page_ID=49
Dorie Glover recently received a 5-year career development grant from
NIMH to study PTSD
and depression in parents of children with cancer, and will be looking at
hippocampal volume via MRI and neuroendocrine functioning. She is an Assistant Professor in Residence
in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Dr. Glover recently participated in the department's
colloquia
series: "Posttraumatic Stress and Depression: What's neuroscience got to do
with it?"
http://www.csulb.edu/~psych/news/f2002cser.htm
Tom Granoff (IO) went to Fuller Theological Seminar for his MA in
Theology (1997) and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, after working a number of
years in computer programming and marketing research positions in the health
care industry. He currently works full-time at an Internet based-business
as an academic and marketing research consultant for clients both around the
country and internationally, which involves doing the
statistical analyses for
thesis and dissertation projects.
He has also have taught research/statistics courses part-time at LMU in their
Department of Education for the last seven years and a year ago began doing the
same at Pepperdine University.
http://www.executive-solutions.com/abo/bios/17.shtml
David Hardy (MAR) received his PhD from the Catholic University of America and has served as an Adjunct Professor at Occidental College. He is currently an assistant professor in the Psychology department at Loyola Marymount University.
Shannon Hassett (MAR) is currently teaching as a tenure-track professor at Columbia College in Sonora, California.
Keith A. Hutchison received both his BA and MA at CSULB, then went on
to his PhD at University at Albany, State University of New York in Cognitive
Psychology. He is currently an
Assistant Professor at
Montana State
University, Bozeman.
http://www.montana.edu/wwwpy/
Jaki Hewitson Kamphuis (MAR) is currently on the faculty at Orange
Coast College, where she runs the
Tutorial Center. She has also worked as a therapist
both in hospital and out-patient settings, specializing in substance abuse
issues and recovery.
http://occonline.occ.cccd.edu/online/faculty/BioPage.cfm?PageID=88
Argiro Julie Kiotas earned her PhD at University of Delaware, and has a tenure track position at Pasadena City College, teaching courses through the Social Sciences division. She also conducts marketing research for several companies.
Alyce LaViolette is a recognized authority on battered women and an
activist against violence and author of It Can Happen to Anyone: Why
Battered Women Stay. She is also the founder of Alternatives to
Violence, located in the city of Long Beach.
http://www.csulb.edu/~d49er/archives/2001/fall/diversions/v9n21-first.shtml
Alison Lenton went on to earn a PhD in Social Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
She currently occupies a Lectureship position for the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge in England
(she explains that "Lecturer" is a title akin to that of "Assistant Professor" in the
U.S.).
http://www.sps.cam.ac.uk/stafflist/alenton.html
Lola Lopes is currently serving as the Associate
Provost for Undergraduate Education at the University of Iowa. She earned her
PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of California, San Diego.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~provost/about/lola.htm
Jennifer Lonergan received her MA in Industrial/Organizational
Psychology at CSULB, then earned her PhD at Northern Illinois
University. She has recently joined the CSULB Psychology faculty as an
Assistant Professor.
http://www.csulb.edu/~psych/deptinfo/faculty/lonergan1.html
Heike Mahler earned a Master's at Long Beach State and her PhD at UC
San Diego. She is a Professor
at CSU San Marcos. A health psychologist, she is associated with research
on skin cancer at UC San Diego.
http://www.cancer.ucsd.edu/summaries/hmahler.asp
Gerald Miller received his Master's degree in Community Psychology.
He currently serves as
City Manager,
having gained more than 25 years experience with the City of Long Beach.
He was recently honored as a distinguished alum at the CSULB Alumni Awards
banquet and spoke during the
2004 College of Liberal Arts commencement ceremony.
http://www.ci.long-beach.ca.us/citymanager/team/bio.asp
Jeffrey Mio earned his PhD at University of Illinois, Chicago, and is
a Professor in the
Behavioral Sciences department at California State Polytechnic University,
Pomona, where he directs their MS program specializing in MFT. He recently
worked on the Coast Community Colleges' educational program,
"Psychology:
The Human Experience" (broadcast on PBS stations across the U.S. and
Canada), for which he won an
Emmy.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jsmio/
Brenda Nordenstam (MS) received her PhD from UC Irvine. She currently serves as an Associate Professor in Environmental Studies at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY.
Vern Padgett graduated from CSU Long Beach in 1980 with his masters in psychology, and in 1985 with his Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from The Ohio State University. He taught at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia and is now Professor of Psychology at Rio Hondo Community College in Whittier, California.
Linda A. Parker (MAR) received both her BA and MA at CSULB, and her PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She is currently a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.
David A. Po-Chedley (IO) has been
actively involved in project management for over 25 years. He is President
of Cambridge Consulting, a firm
dedicated to enhancing project effectiveness for clients worldwide, and is
certified by the Project
Management Institute (PMI) as a Project Management Professional (PMP).
He has written several books, including his most recent,
Client Relationship Management.
http://www.cambridgeconsult.com/associates.htm#David%20A.%20Po-Chedley
Cynthia S. Rand obtained a CSULB Master's degree, and is a
Professor of
Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She is a
health psychologist with the School of Public Health,
Johns Hopkins
University,
specializing in pulmonary disease, and affiliated with the
Global Project on Tobacco
Control.
http://www.jhsph.edu/test/IGTC_old/Staff_and_Affiliated_Faculty.html
Scott Roesch received his PhD from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Social/Personality Psychology,
with a Quantitative Methods minor. He is currently teaching courses at San
Diego State Univ as an
Associate
Professor.
http://www.psychology.sdsu.edu/new-web/facultystaff/Roesch_Vita_11_2_06.htm
Gloria Romero, Professor of Psychology at California State University,
Los Angeles, is a Democrat Assemblywoman in the California legislature,
representing District 24 in Los Angeles.
http://democrats.sen.ca.gov/senator/romero/
Carrie L. Saetermoe received her PhD from UC Riverside, and is
teaching in the Psychology department at CSU Northridge, specializing in Human
Development and Pediatric Psychology.
http://www.csun.edu/~transitn/assist/saetermoe.html
Bonnie K. Shrewsbury added an Environmental Studies Certificate to her CSULB Psychology Masters, and has continued her association with the university by teaching a GIS course. She's currently the GIS Manager for the City of Manhattan Beach, who honored her as the 2001 Employee of the Year, and was the flood zone contact for the City of Lakewood.
Sherry Span began her graduate career at CSULB as a Conditionally
Classified student, subsequently gaining successful entry into the
MA-Research program. After completing her PhD at USC, she was hired on as
a tenure track Assistant Professor of Psychology at CSULB.
http://www.csulb.edu/~sspan/
Suzanne C. Thompson obtained her MA at CSULB and PhD at UCLA. She is
Professor
of Psychology at Pomona College and publishes research on stress, health, and
coping.
http://psych.pomona.edu/faculty/vita/thompsonvita.html
Jim Turner is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies at UCLA. He received his PhD from University of Missouri, and was a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA for a number of years with research interests in placebo effects, the everyday lives of mentally retarded adults, and indigenous psychologies.
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