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

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.

Sara J. Czaja, PhD, Chair, CMHA External Advisory Board Committee,
Co-Director, Center of Aging University of Miami

Cornelia Beck, PhD, Director of Research, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
University of Arkansas

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, PhD, Associate Director of Aging and Diversity Institute on Aging
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

Ron Toseland, PhD, Professor and Director of the Institute of Gerontology
SUNY Albany

Faculty Associates and Affiliates

Rebecca S. Allen, Associate, Department of Psychology, 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, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA

Guy A. Caldwell, Associate, Department of Biological Sciences, UA

Andrea Cevasco, Associate, School of Music, 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

Jullet A. Davis, Associate, Department of Management and Marketing, UA

Jamie DeCoster, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA

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

Janyce Dyer, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA

Amanda F. Elliott, Affiliate, U.A.B.

Pamela P. Foster, Associate, College of Community Health Sciences, UA

Susan Gaskins, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA

Karl Hamner, Affiliate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA

J. Michael Hardin, Associate, Info. Systems, Statistics, & Mgmt Sciences, UA

Regina Harrell, Associate, Department of Internal Medicine, CCHS, UA

John Higginbotham, Associate, College of Community Health Sciences, UA

Ida M. Johnson, Associate, Department of Criminal Justice, UA

Allan V. Kaufman, Associate, School of Social Work, UA

David L. Klemmack, Associate, Dept. of Criminal Justice and New College, UA

Jordan I. Kosberg, Associate, School of Social Work, 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

Kristine L. Lokken, Affiliate, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology, U.A.B.

Gordon A. MacNeil, Associate, School of Social Work, UA

Shadi S. Martin, Associate, School of Social Work, UA

Ruby S. Morrison, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA

Laura Moss, Affiliate, Dept. of Communicative Disorders, UA

Nan Sook Park, Associate, School of Social Work, UA

Michael W. Parker, Associate, School of Social Work, UA

Patricia Parmelee, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA

Carroll C. Phelps, Professor, 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, School of Social Work, UA

Beverly Roskos-Ewoldson, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA

Bettina Schmid, Affiliate, Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center Tuscaloosa

Forrest R. Scogin, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA

John L. Shuster, Jr., Affiliate, Cooper Green Mercy Hospital

Cassandra Simon, Associate, School of Social Work, UA

Lynn Snow, Associate, Department of Psychology, UA

Marietta P. Stanton, Associate, Capstone College of Nursing, UA

Carmen Taylor, Associate, Department of Communicative Disorders, UA

Lori Turner, Associate, Dept. of Health Science, UA

Renee Umstattd, 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

Eric Williams, Associate, Management and Marketing, UA

Revised March 27, 2008