Leadership

Board of Directors

President: Paulene Popek
Past President: Myra Pomerantz
Secretary: Gabrielle Taylor
Treasurer: David Thomsen
Deans: Jill Model Barth
Director, Division of Membership Services: Sandra Landen
Director, Psychotherapy Division: Lucia Melito
Chair, Child Analytic Committee: Susan Donner
Chair, Diversities and Sociocultural Issues Committee: Michele Gomes
Co-Chairs, Program Committee: Michael Gales & Heather Silverman
Co-Chairs, Extension Committee: Elena Balashova-Shamis & Luis Nagy
Co-Senior At-Large Members: Julie Tepper & Kenneth House
Junior At-Large Member: Agnes Regeczkey
President Clinical Associates Organization: Aimee Martinez
Executive Councilor: Jeffrey Prager
Executive Councilor Alternate:* Elena Bezzubova

Executive Councilor Alternate is not an official member of the Board.

Education Committee

Dean: Jill Model Barth
Faculty Committee Chair: Paulene Popek
Student Progression Committee Chair: Martha Slagerman
Research Training Committee Chair: Jeffrey Prager
Research Committee Chairs: Alan Compton/Linda Goodman
Curriculum Committee Chair: Dahlia Nissan Russ
Admissions Committee Chair: Jill Model Barth
Doctoral Thesis Committee Chair: Sharon Blum
Child Analytic Program Chair: Susan Donner
At Large Senior Faculty: Lynn Kuttnauer/Jane L. Rubin
At Large Junior Faculty: Nanette Karapetian/Glenn Mowbray
Clinical Associates Organization Co-Presidents: Agnes Regeczkey/Mara Thorsen
Diversities and Sociocultural Issues Committee Representative: Joseph Verrone

Ex officio Members:
President: Myra Pomerantz
Psychotherapy Division Director: Lucia Melito
IAC Chair: Julie Tepper

Committees

Admissions Committee

Scott Tommey
Jill Model Barth
Sidonie Freeman
Jeff Prager
Lynn Kuttnauer
Richard Weiss
Gittelle Sones

Outreach & Recruitment Sub-committee

Michele Gomes, Co-Chair
Claudia Feldman, Co-Chair

Child Program

Susan Donner, Chair
Elena Balashova-Shamis
Barton Blinder
Van Dyke DeGolia
Katharine Gould
Ben Kohn
Sandra Landen
Stanley Leiken
Deborah Lynn
James Rosenblum
Anita Saunders
Thomas Trott
Andrea Weiss

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Committee

Katharine Gould, Chair
Anita Saunders
Roslyn Menitoff
Fay Gawryn
Sandra Landen
Joseph Verrone

Clinic Committee

Lucia Melito, Administrator

Clinical Moments Program

Janet K. Smith, Co-Chair
Sidonie Freeman, Co-Chair

Curriculum Committee

Van DeGolia, Chair
Jill Model Barth
Melvin Lansky
Claudia Feldman
Margaret Rubin
Lynn Kuttnauer
Dahlia Nissan Russ
Martha Slagerman
Janet K. Smith
Julie Tepper
Travis Tanner

Diversities Committee

Michele Gomes, Chair
Justin Shubert
Joseph Verrone
Rachel Bartur
Elizabeth Diamond
Rina Freedman
Sidonie Freeman
Ethan Grumbach
Julie Tepper
Mara Thorsen

Ethics Committee

Meiram Bendat, Chair
Robin Frasier
Elyn Saks
David Sones
Fredelle Spiegel
Louis Weisberg
Richard Weiss

Executive Councilor

Jeffrey Prager
Elena Bezzubova (Alternate)

Extension Committee

Elena Balashova-Shamis, Chair
Luis Nagy, Co-Chair
Thomas Brod, Film & Mind Program Co-chair
Apurva Shah, Film & Mind Program Co-chair

Faculty Committee

Elena Bezzubova, Chair

Membership Committee

Sandra Landen, Director

NCP/UCI Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program Steering Committee

Joel Kotin
Michael Wolf
Peter Gelker

Program Committee

Michael Gales, Co-Chair
Heather Silverman, Co-Chair

Progression Committee

Martha Slagerman, Co-Chair
Lynn Kuttnauer, Co-Chair
Elena Bezzubova
Van Dyke DeGolia
Nanette Karapetian
Margaret Rubin
Jane Rubin-Gerstein
Julie Tepper

Psychotherapy Committee

Lucia Melito, Director
Lisa Oxman
Rina Freedman
Linda Goodman
Cage Hall
Daniel Kaushansky
David F. Mann
Marvin Osman
Julie Tepper
Mary L. Thomsen
Leslie Tuchman
Doug Wilson

Research Committee

Morris Eagle, Co-chair
Linda Goodman, Co-chair
Barton Blinder
Morris Eagle
Beverly Feinstein
Andrei Novac
Joshua Pretsky
Richard Rosenthal
Jeffrey Seitelman
Heather Silverman
Andrea Weiss
Miriam Tasini
Cage Hall

Training Analysts Committee

Lynn Kuttnauer, Chair