Center Structure
The Center created an administrative infrastructure to guide its activities, composed of a multidisciplinary Executive Committee of faculty members throughout the campus of The University of Alabama, a Community Advisory Board composed of consumers and representatives of the mental health provider community in Alabama, an External Advisory Board, and a Faculty Associate/Affiliate program.
A major goal of CMHA is to link University of Alabama faculty and graduate students, Alabama consumers and families of consumers of mental health services and human service delivery organizations toward the goal of improving the quality of mental health and mental health services for older persons.
Members of each committee are listed below:
Executive Committee
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CMHA & Department of Psychology |
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Department of Psychology |
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| Martha Crowther | Department of Psychology |
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School of Social Work |
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Department of Management and Marketing |
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| Pamela Foster | College of Community Health Sciences |
| Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Sciences | |
| CMHA & Department of Psychology | |
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School of Law |
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| Patricia Parmelee |
CMHA & Department of Psychology |
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Department of Psychology |
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| A. Lynn Snow | CMHA & Department of Psychology |
Community Advisory Board
The intent of the Community Advisory Board for the Center for Mental Health and Aging is to build a strong network between the Center and providers/consumers of mental health services. We value members’ advice on Center research plans, goals and directions. The board anticipates meeting approximately three times yearly at the Center’s offices on the University of Alabama campus.
External Advisory Board
Regional/state linkages have been promoted through the co-directors’ meetings with the Alabama Commissioner of Mental Health and Retardation, an association representing the directors of all community mental health centers in Alabama, and groups of social workers at the regional and state levels. Our interaction with national advisory board members at the Gerontological Society of America, the National Conference on Gerontology in Social Work and other professional meetings has enhanced our national visibility.
CorneliaBeck, PhD, Director of Research, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
University of Arkansas
Mark Kunick, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center; Associate Director, Research Training, South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC); Baylor College of Medicine
Peter Lichtenberg, PhD, Director of both the Institute of Gerontology and the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute and the Founding Director of the Wayne State University Lifespan Alliance, Wayne State University
Lucinda Lee Roff, PhD, Interim Dean, School of Social Work, The University of Alabama
Leonard Poon, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Health Policy and Management; Director of Institute of Gerontology, The University of Georgia
Faculty Associates and Affiliates
Rebecca S. Allen, Primary Faculty, CMHA and Department of Psychology, UA
Susan J. Appel, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
Susan Bagby, Affiliate, College of Human Environmental Sciences, UA
Sheila R. Black, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Stanley L. Brodsky, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Louis D. Burgio, Affiliate, Social Work, University of Michigan
Carmen Burkhalter, Associate, Communicative Disorders, UA
Guy Caldwell, Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, UA
Andrea Cevasco, Associate, School of Music, UA
Susan Chen, Associate, Economic, Finance and Legal Studies, UA
Martha R. Crowther, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Ellen Csikai, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Sherry M. Cummings, Affiliate, College of Social Work, University of Tennessee
Natalie Dautovich, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Jullet A. Davis, Associate, Department of Management and Marketing, UA
Jason DeCaro, Associate, Department of Anthropology, UA
Jamie DeCoster, Affiliate, Curry School of Medicine, U. Of Virginia
Carol S. Drolen, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Jeri W. Dunkin, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
Linda L. Dunn, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
Cassandra Ford, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
Pamela P. Foster, Associate, College of Community Health Sciences, UA
Susan Gaskins, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
Jonathon Halbesleben, Associate, Culverhouse College of Business, UA
Karl Hamner, Affiliate, School of Social Work and Capstone College of Nursing, UA
J. Michael Hardin, Associate, Culverhouse College of Business Administration UA
Regina Harrell, Associate, Department of Internal Medicine, CCHS, UA
John Higginbotham, Associate, College of Community Health Sciences, UA
Michelle Hilgeman, Affiliate, Tuscaloosa Veterans Affairs
Marcia Hay-McCutcheon , Associate, Department of Communicative Disorders, UA
Ida M. Johnson, Associate, Department of Criminal Justice, UA
Allan V. Kaufman, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Giyeon Kim, Primary Faculty, CMHA and Department of Psychology, UA
David L. Klemmack, Associate, Dept. of Criminal Justice and New College, UA
Melissa C. Kuhajda, Associate, College of Community Health Sciences, UA
Jeanine Lawrence, Associate, Human Environmental Sciences, UA
Hugh Lee, Associate, School of Law, UA
Kenneth L. Lichstein, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Bronwen Lichtenstein, Associate, Department of Criminal Justice, UA
Gordon A. MacNeil, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Shadi S. Martin, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Laura Moss, Affiliate,Dept. of Communicative Disorders, UA
JoAnn Oliver, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
Michael W. Parker, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Patricia Parmelee, Director and Primary Faculty, CMHA and Department of Psychology, UA
Carroll C. Phelps, Professor, School of Social Work, UA
David Pollio, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Carol A. Prickett, Associate, School of Music, UA
Paul S. Ray, Associate, Industrial Engineering Department, UA
Lucinda L. Roff, Associate (Emeritus), School of Social Work, UA
Beverly Roskos, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Forrest R. Scogin, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Kelly Stanek Sellbom, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA
Avani Shah, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Cassandra Simon, Associate, School of Social Work, UA
Lynn Snow, Primary Faculty, CMHA and Department of Psychology, UA
Marietta P. Stanton, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
Lori Turner, Associate, Dept. of Health Science, UA
Jeanette L. VanderMeer, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA
John R. Wheat, Associate, Department of Community and Rural Medicine, UA
Marilyn Whitman, Associate, Management and Marketing Department, UA
Eric Williams, Associate, Management and Marketing, UA