Psychological Testing Representative
Justin Barry, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist with a passion for psychological assessment. Barry has spent the past six years serving in community mental health overseeing a psychological assessment program, supervising future psychologists (using a Relational Psychodynamic model), assisting in staff training, and retaining a small clinical caseload.
He believes in service to the underserved, the power of self-understanding and self-compassion, and shifting away from categorical and medicalized understandings of the human condition, all while advocating for healthy organizational systems and sensible reimbursement structures that reward quality (not just quantity).
Barry is a standing member of the Society for Personality Assessment, Colorado Assessment Society, and APA, and is proud to serve as an early career member of the Health Care Financing Advisory Group representing psychological assessment.
Traci L. Bolander, PsyD
Member-at-large
Traci Bolander, PsyD, is an innovative psychologist, training director, and administrator with 12 years of proven ability to analyze the health care landscape and create opportunities for immediate and sustained growth.
Bolander is founder and CEO of Mid-Atlantic Behavioral Health, LLC, Delaware’s premier private multidisciplinary outpatient group practice comprised of 50+ clinical staff including psychiatrists, psychologists, advanced practice nurses, licensed master’s level clinicians, and more than 20 associated support staff with four locations.
Bolander is also a founding board member of the Delaware Center for Health Innovation and cochair of the Payment Workgroup driving health care transformation through grants, policy development, and stakeholder engagement.
She received the Philadelphia Region Walnut Club Award, which recognizes top female CEOs, and was named Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce.
TFSMI/SED Representative
Marielle Demarais, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist currently working at Hennepin Healthcare, a level one trauma center and safety net health care system located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Demarais currently serves as the chief of psychology. She is the founder and director of the Healing and Opportunities with Psychotic Experiences (HOPE) program at Hennepin Healthcare specializing in evidence-based, interdisciplinary treatment for people with new onset schizophrenia-spectrum illnesses. Demarais provides clinical interventions and psychological evaluations to individuals and their families enrolled in the HOPE Program.
In addition to leadership and clinical roles, Demarais is a core faculty member for the Hennepin Healthcare Psychology Intern and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs, as well as the Hennepin-Regions Psychiatry Residency Program. She is also the site principal investigator for the National Institute of Mental Health Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET) research initiative. As part of the EPINET project, she serves as a member of the Racial Equity TA Tools and Resources Committee.
Demarais received her BA from DePaul University and went on to earn her PhD in clinical psychology from Kent State University in 2012. She completed postdoctoral specialization in serious mental illness from the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System in 2013. Demarais has served on several committees including the NEUCOM Early Psychosis Task Force, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, and Minnesota State Advisory Council on Mental Health. Currently, she is a member of the APA Task Force on Serious Mental Illness and Serious Emotional Disturbance. She has dedicated her career to improving the lives of people living with psychotic illness through clinical intervention, teaching, research, and advocacy.
Gordon I. Herz, PhD
Independent Practice Representative
Gordon Herz, PhD, is an independent practitioner in Madison, Wisconsin, and former director of neuropsychology services in the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at Meriter Hospital.
Herz maintains allied health privileges at two hospitals and has chaired the committee that reviews psychologists’ credentials when applying for hospital privileges. He has been active in advocacy activities related to health care and health financing reform, including having cochaired the APA Division 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice) Task Force on Managed Care and Health Care Policy.
Herz is the former president of Division 42. He recently coauthored the chapter “Health Systems Issues and the Underserved” in Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved.
Herz regularly writes about trends in psychologists’ and other mental health professionals’ participation in Medicare and related issues such as reimbursement, provision of psychotherapy, and access to care issues in the Medicare population.
Commercial Payer Representative
Daniel Holland, PhD, MPH, holds academic appointments in the clinical psychology PhD program at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara and the counseling psychology PsyD program at Saint Mary’s University in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His consulting practice focuses on behavioral health care finance operations, promoting coverage of psychological services through the development of medical necessity, and utilization criteria that effectively support psychological care.
Much of Holland’s work has been around disability and international human rights. He was a two-time Fulbright recipient, a research scholar in East European studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and a Mary Switzer Distinguished Fellow in Rehabilitation Research at the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Holland received the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice in 2019.
Integrated Care Representative
Monica Kurylo, PhD, ABPP, is board certified in rehabilitation psychology and is a professor, director of neurorehabilitation psychology, and associate director of the Division of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center, where she also has a secondary appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine.
As the director of neurorehabilitation psychology services, Kurylo provides inpatient and outpatient evaluation and treatment services as well as consults as a member of the interdisciplinary treatment teams in rehabilitation, burn, and trauma. She also provides administrative leadership, didactic and experiential training, and supervision for doctoral practicum graduate students, doctoral interns, and postdoctoral fellows in psychology, as well as provides supervision and didactic training for psychiatry medical residents along with didactic training for rehabilitation medicine residents.
Kurylo is president of APA Division 31 (State, Provincial, and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs), past president of the Kansas Psychological Association, and a member of the LP Advisory Committee to the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. She serves on APA’s Advisory Committee of the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP) and as chair of the Program and Faculty Development Subcommittee and the chair of the Selection Subcommittee for LIWP.
Kurylo is secretary of the Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology and a representative from APA Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology) to the APA Council of Representatives. Kurylo is also a program review consultant to the APA Commission on Accreditation.
Charles M. Lepkowsky, PhD
Member-at-large
Charles M. Lepkowsky, PhD, has been an independently practicing psychologist since 1985. He is a former chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and a past president of the Santa Barbara County Psychological Association. Lepkowsky has served as clinical director and assistant administrative director for nonprofit community counseling agencies and worked full-time for two years in an inpatient psychiatric unit. He taught doctoral psychology courses for 14 years and has been on staff at local hospitals for over 33 years. He is active in patient and practice advocacy and legislative action, has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, 10 textbook chapters, and has edited two textbooks. His research interests include geropsychology, neurocognitive disorders, collaborative care, personality disorders, medical psychotherapy, technology, epidemiology, and person-centered approaches. He is an APA fellow and the 2022 recipient of APA’s John D. Preston Award for Outstanding Contribution to Clinical Psychopharmacology.
Peter D. Liggett, PhD
Medicaid Representative
Peter D. Liggett, PhD, is a principal consultant and licensed clinical psychologist in Mercer’s Government and Human Services Consulting practice in the Phoenix office. Liggett has experience consulting to state government health and human services agencies across the country with a focus on behavioral health, long-term services and supports, benefits design and modernization, integrated care models, alternative payment models, value-based payment, home and community-based services waiver programs, and workforce issues.
Before joining Mercer in 2021, Liggett was the deputy Medicaid director at the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services where he oversaw a staff of 200+ and operations of the behavioral health and long-term living programs. Since joining Mercer, Liggett has become involved with projects in Pennsylvania, Kansas, Arizona, Delaware, Connecticut, Missouri, Minnesota, and New Jersey involving value-based purchasing, behavioral health benefits design, long-term services and supports, and evidence-based service delivery models.
Liggett recently finished a three-year term as a member and vice chairperson of the Board of Professional Affairs for APA. Before serving on the Board of Professional Affairs, Liggett was a member of the Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice and was the president of the South Carolina Psychological Association.
Member-at-large
Lyn McArthur, PhD, is the behavioral health director at Health West Inc., a federally qualified health center, located in southeastern Idaho. McArthur helped Health West develop and implement their behavioral health integration program in 2015. Currently, she is working on developing and integrating behavioral health into other areas of Health West’s services, including medication assisted treatment, hepatitis C treatment, and pediatric care. McArthur has a special interest in health psychology, including the treatment of eating disorders.
McArthur is originally from rural Kentucky and was drawn to Health West because of her desire to serve the underserved. She is a member of APA’s Committee on Rural Health.
McArthur has also served as the Idaho Psychological Association Advocacy Committee Chair, on several insurance boards, and on multiple community boards and committees to promote access to behavioral health services.
Jennifer M. Morgan, PsyD
Neuropsychological Testing Representative
Jennifer M. Morgan, PsyD, provides outpatient clinical neuropsychological services to adults of all ages, including seniors. Morgan is chair of the Health Care Benefits Committee and the Board of Psychology Liaison for the Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists, as well as a consultant member to the National Academy of Neuropsychology’s Professional Affairs and Information Committee. In October 2017, she was honored with the Distinguished Service Award by the National Academy of Neuropsychology.
Morgan has also received the Joan Smallwood Service Award, the Distinguished Professional Contributions to the Practice of Clinical Psychology Award, the Hall of Fame Award for significant contributions to Virginia Psychological Association, and the Virginia Academy of Clinical Psychologists Presidential Citation in recognition of exceptional and valuable efforts on behalf of the academy related to patient health care benefits and regulation of the practice.
APA advisor to the AMA/CPT
Neil Pliskin, PhD, is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and professor of clinical psychiatry and neurology in the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Pliskin serves as director of neuropsychology services at University of Illinois Health and has more than 30 years of experience working as a clinical neuropsychologist and directing clinical neuropsychology training programs.
Pliskin is past president of APA Division 40 (Society for Clinical Neuropsychology) and has served as APA advisor to the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee since 2009.
Medicare Representative
Antonio E. Puente, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and maintains a private practice in clinical neuropsychology. His primary teaching activities include brain and behavior, clinical neuropsychology, and history of psychology. Puente is founding director of University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Centro Hispano, and his research focuses on the interface between culture and neuropsychology.
Puente is the founder and codirector of mental health services at the Cape Fear Clinic, a bilingual multidisciplinary health center serving the indigent. He also served as president of the North Carolina Psychological Association, the North Carolina Psychological Foundation, the Hispanic Neuropsychological Association, the National Academy of Neuropsychology, APA Division 40 (Society for Clinical Neuropsychology), and APA.
Puente served as APA’s advisor for 15 years to the AMA’s CPT Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee prior to serving for an additional 8 years as one of 17 members of the AMA CPT Panel. He was cofounder of APA’s Advocacy Coordinating Committee and currently serves as past chair.
Independent Practice Representative
Beth N. Rom-Rymer, PhD, is a forensic and clinical psychologist with psychopharmacology training and extensive leadership and advocacy experience. Rom-Rymer has a clinical practice in Chicago and a national forensic consulting practice. She has given numerous lectures on clinical and forensic issues (sexual trauma, PTSD, domestic violence, child custody litigation, substance abuse and trauma, sexual harassment in the workplace) throughout the United States and Canada.
Rom-Rymer has held many administrative positions in psychiatric hospitals throughout the Chicago metropolitan region. She has also lectured extensively in the departments of psychiatry, at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, and Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and in the departments of psychology, at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. Rom-Rymer is one of the psychologists who created the field of forensic geriatrics in 2000 and is a national leader in the advocacy for psychologists’ prescriptive authority.
Her numerous awards include Distinguished Illinois Psychologist from the Illinois Psychological Association; Outstanding Service to the Community from the Princeton University Club of Chicago; Outstanding Psychologist of the Year from APA Division 31 (State, Provincial, and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs); APA Presidential Citation for Outstanding Leadership; APA Karl Heiser Award for Legislative Advocacy; Alfred M. Wellner, PhD, Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Register of Health Service Providers; Outstanding Psychologist Award from the Illinois Psychological Association; Social Impact Leaders Award from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology; and Outstanding Leadership Award from AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital CEO, Clayton Ciha.
Rom-Rymer completed her term as a member of the APA Board of Directors in 2019 and is the immediate past chair of the APA Council Leadership Team. Rom-Rymer is also a member of the board of directors of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists and is the president and CEO of the Illinois Association of Prescribing Psychologists.
RUC CPT Representative
Scott Sperling, PsyD, is board certified in clinical neuropsychology and staff clinical neuropsychologist in the Center for Neurological Restoration at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a clinician and researcher with expertise in Parkinson’s disease and functional neurosurgery for movement disorders. His research examines cognitive decline and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease, including the contributions of cholinergic denervation to nonsymptoms, as well as the reliability of in-home teleneuropsychological testing.
Sperling earned his doctorate degree at the Wright Institute and completed his predoctoral internship at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center. He then completed postdoctoral training in clinical neuropsychology in the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia, where he worked as an associate professor before moving to Cleveland in 2020.
Sperling is committed to professional service and is an active educator and advocate for inclusivity and justice, students and early career psychologists, the discipline of psychology, and the communities psychologists serve. He has served as chair of APA Division 40 (Society for Clinical Neuropsychology) Education Advisory Committee, cochair of Division 40’s Strategic Planning Committee, and director of Division 40’s Student Leadership Development Program. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Sperling cofounded KnowNeuropsychology, an organization that provides open access education to learners across the world. He also had the privilege of serving as chair of APA’s Committee on Early Career Psychologists.
Sperling is highly engaged in state and federal education and health care policy. He is a consultant to the Council of Specialties in Professional Psychology on the development of health service psychology specialties’ taxonomies and a liaison to APA’s Board of Professional Affairs working group charged with recommending an appropriate master’s title and scope of practice in health service psychology. Since moving to Ohio, Sperling has served as the Ohio Psychological Association’s Federal Advocacy Coordinator and chair of their Advocacy Committee.
For his professional service and clinical and research accomplishments, Sperling was awarded the Robert A. and Phyllis Levitt Early Career Award in Neuropsychology.
Susan E. Sprich, PhD
Hospital Practice Representative
Susan E. Sprich, PhD, received her BA in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and her PhD in clinical psychology from The University at Albany, State University of New York. She completed her clinical psychology internship training and postdoctoral training at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She has served as the director of psychology training since 2021 and the clinical director of psychology since 2022. She was appointed as the director of postgraduate psychology education for the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy in 2015. She is an assistant professor in psychology at Harvard Medical School.
Sprich is coauthor of 27 chapters and articles on a range of topics including psychosocial treatments for ADHD in adults and adolescents, trichotillomania, and social anxiety. She is a coauthor of Mastering Your Adult ADHD—Therapist Guide and Client Workbook and the first author of Overcoming ADHD in Adolescence—Therapist Guide and Client Workbook, published by Oxford University Press in the Treatments That Work series. She served as a coeditor of the The Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, published by Springer in 2016, and is currently the lead editor of the second edition of this handbook. She is currently an associate editor of the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.
She teaches and supervises psychology interns and psychiatry residents at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was the recipient of the Emerson Award from Massachusetts General Hospital for her dissertation research and she was awarded a Scholars in Medicine Fellowship through Harvard Medical School. She was given awards for excellence in mentoring by the psychology interns in 2015 and 2023, the Behavioral Medicine Service Award in 2018, and the APA Outstanding Contributions to Continuing Professional Development Award in 2021. Sprich has been involved in research projects focused on ADHD, body dysmorphic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and autism spectrum disorders.
Jennifer B. Warkentin, PhD
Board of Professional Affairs Representative
Jennifer B. Warkentin, PhD, is the founder and CEO of Essential Insights Counseling Center, an insurance-based group practice in Hudson, Massachusetts. She served as the director of professional affairs for the Massachusetts Psychological Association (MPA) from 2016 to 2021, where she engaged in a variety of legislative, regulatory, and health plan advocacy efforts. For members of MPA, she provided professional consultations, put together resources on state and federal topics, and provided training and seminars on a range of issues. From 2018 to 2021 she represented MPA and cochaired the Massachusetts Mental Health Coalition, a group of 14 organizations representing provider groups, health law advocates, hospitals, consumers, and nonprofit agencies.
She worked as a clinical assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire from 2012 to 2016, where she taught classes, provided clinically-oriented academic advising, and served as the clinical career specialist for undergraduate psychology majors. Her clinical training was as a generalist, and she has experience in a range of settings, including chronic and acute inpatient psychiatric hospitals, veterans affairs health care systems, emergency departments, and skilled nursing facilities, in addition to outpatient private practice work.
Group Services Representative
Martyn Whittingham, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and currently serves as a consultant on organizational change for behavioral and mental health services for Whittingham Psychological Services LLC. Whittingham is also an adjunct faculty member at SUNY New Paltz, Xavier University, and California School of Professional Psychology and has held positions as a full-time associate professor member at Wright State University.
He is the past president of APA Division 49 (Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy) and specializes in group therapy. Whittingham received the Group Practice Award from the National Association for Specialists in Group Work for innovation and excellence in group therapy practice.
Whittingham previously held the position of chief, clinical integration and research for the Behavioral Health Institute at Mercy Health (now Bon Secours Mercy Health), one of the largest health systems in the country. As a result of his leadership, the institute received a commendation for excellence in group therapy. During his tenure there, Whittingham also introduced primary care integration across the system, placing 25 behavioral health consultants into 45 practices.
He has developed expertise in evidence-based therapy, health policy, payment systems, value-based care, and assessment. Whittingham is also the founder of Focused Brief Group Therapy, an assessment-informed approach to personalizing group therapy. He has delivered invited grand rounds on the approach to Stanford University Psychiatry and McClean Hospital and regularly gives workshops on the model nationally and internationally.
Psychotherapy Representative
Sean Woodland, PhD, is a behavioral medicine psychologist for Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, California. Woodland is an expert in promoting effective use of electronic measure-based outcomes monitoring systems, including Tridiuum and OQ-Analyst. He also works to promote use of standardized psychosocial process and outcome measures in integrated care, including for medical conditions such as chronic pain, insomnia, and diabetes.
Woodland is an active participant in APA division governance and currently serves as a practice representative for Division 49 (Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy). In this role, he also served as liaison to APA’s Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice.
