Leadership

Board of Directors

President: Heather Silverman
Past President: Paulene Popek 
Secretary: Gabrielle Taylor
Treasurer: David Thomsen
Dean: Aranye Fradenburg 
Director, Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Program: Susan Donner
Director, Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program: Lucia Melito
Director, Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program: Katharine Gould
Director, Division of Membership Services: Luis Nagy
Chair, Diversities and Sociocultural Issues Committee: Brian Stachowiak
Chair, Program Committee: Open
Chair, Research Analysts Committee: David James "Jimmy" Fisher
Senior Co Representative At-Large Members: Michael Gales & Kenneth House
Junior At-Large Member: Debra Myers
Co-Presidents, Clinical Associates Organization: Open
Director, APsA BOD, NCP: Sandra Landen
Director, APsA BOD, NCP (Alternate):* Jeffrey Prager
     *Not an official member of the Board

Education Committee

Dean: Aranye Fradenburg Joy 
Faculty Committee Chair: Janet K. Smith
Progression Committee Chair:  Deborah Kirschbaum
Research Committee Co-Chair: Barton (Bart) Blinder
Curriculum Committee Chair: Van Dyke DeGolia
Admissions Committee Chair: Sidonie Freeman
Research Psychoanalyst Training Committee Chair: Cheryl Goldstein
Child Analytic Program Director: Susan Donner
Senior Faculty Representative: Carol Hekman
Junior Faculty Representatives: Christopher (Chris) Walling & Aimee Martinez 
Clinical Associates Organization President: Open
Diversities and Sociocultural Issues Committee Representative: Joseph Verrone
IAC Chair: Sheryl White-Chase
NCP Board President: Heather Silverman (Ex-Officio)
Clinic Coordinator: Alison Davies (Ex-Officio)

Committees

Admissions Committee

  • Sidonie Freeman, Chair
  • Aranye Fradenburg Joy, Dean (Ex-Officio)
  • Jill Model Barth
  • Nanette Karapetian
  • Lynn Kuttnauer
  • Luis Nagy
  • Laurence Rose
  • Gerard Sobnosky
  • Scott Tommey

 

Outreach & Recruitment Sub-committee

  • Natalia Boucher, Co-Chair
  • Aimee Martinez, Co-Chair

 

Child Program

  • Susan Donner, Chair
  • Silvia Bell
  • Barton Blinder
  • Van Dyke DeGolia
  • Agnes Regeczkey
  • Joe Verrone

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Faculty Forum

  • Katharine Gould, Chair
  • Anita Saunders
  • Rachel Bartur
  • Bart Blinder
  • Gloria de la Cruz-Quiroz
  • Fay Gawryn
  • Sandra Landen
  • Deborah Lynn
  • Roslyn Menitoff
  • Joseph Verrone
  • Andrea Weiss

NCP Clinic

  • Alison Davies

Clinical Moments Program

  • Ronnie Kaye, Co-Chair
  • Janet K. Smith, Co-Chair

 

 

Curriculum Committee

  • Van DeGolia, Chair
  • Jill Model Barth
  • Lynn Kuttnauer
  • Dahlia Nissan Russ
  • Martha Slagerman
  • Janet K. Smith
  • Travis Tanner
  • Julie Tepper
  • Mara Thorsen
  • Sherry White-Chase

Diversities Committee

  • Brian Stachowiak, MA, LMFT (Chair)

  • Aranye Fradenburg Joy, PhD
  • Elizabeth Diamond, PhD

  • Michele Gomes, PsyD

  • Ethan Grumbach, PhD

  • Manal Khan, MD

  • Tamer Mattar, PhD

  • Kristen Melnyk, MD

  • Alison Picard, MA, LMFT

  • Justin Shubert, PsyD, PhD

  • Julie Tepper, PsyD, LMFT

  • Joseph Verrone, LCSW

  • Christopher Walling, PsyD, MBA, FABP

  • Travis Tanner, PhD, LMSW
  • Rachel Barthur, LMFT
Ethics Committee
  • Meiram Bendat, Chair
  • Robin Frasier
  • Elyn Saks
  • Barbara Sax
  • David Sones
  • Fredelle Spiegel
  • Louis Weisberg
  • Richard Weiss

APsA Board of Directors, NCP

  • Sandra Landen
  • Jeffrey Prager (Alternate)
 

Faculty Committee

  • Janet K. Smith, Chair
  • Heather Silverman
  • Travis Tanner

Membership Division

  • Luis Nagy, Director
  • Sandra Landen


Member Assistance Committee

  • Jeffrey Seitelman, Chair

NCP/UCI Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program Steering Committee

  • Peter Gelker
  • Joel Kotin
  • Michael Wolf

Program Committee

  • Heather Silverman, Chair
  • Thomas Brod
  • Jennifer Langham
  • Paulene Popek
  • Josh Richmond
  • Dahlia Nissan Russ
  • Travis Tanner

Progression Committee

  • Deborah Kirschbaum, Chair
  • Jill Model Barth, Dean
  • Susan Cofsky
  • Van Dyke DeGolia
  • Nanette Karapetian
  • Margaret Rubin
  • Jane Rubin-Gerstein
  • Julie Tepper

Psychotherapy Committee

  • Lucia Melito, Director
  • Linda Goodman
  • Timothy McCajor Hall
  • Lisa Oxman
  • Doug Wilson
  • Duc Nguyen
  • Nitzan Keynan

Research Committee

  • Barton Blinder, Co-Chair
  • Andrei Novac, Co-Chair
  • Morris Eagle
  • Beverly Feinstein
  • Linda Goodman
  • Sule Ozler
  • Richard Rosenthal
  • Heather Silverman 

Strategic Planning Committee

  • Paulene Popek, Chair
  • Michele Gomes
  • Ethan Grumbach
  • Sandra Landen
  • Cecilia Peck
  • Suzanne Dworak Peck
  • Gabrielle Taylor
  • David Thomsen
  • Heather Silverman
  • Jill Model Barth
  • Aranye Fradenburg

Training Analysts Committee

  • Lynn Kuttnauer, Chair

 Governance Committee

  • Gabrielle Taylor, Chair
  • Luis A. Nagy
  • Cecilia Peck
  • Paulene Popek, Ex officio