Jeffrey Boyd, Ph.D., L.P., received his degree in clinical psychology from Florida State University in 1979. He is Chief Psychologist and Program Director for Psychology/ Neuropsychology Services at HCMC, and serves in a
variety of administrative roles including the departmental management team, the Medical Staff Bylaw Committee, the Institutional Review Board, and performance improvement activities. His clinical interests are eclectic, ranging from forensic evaluation to program consultation to psychotherapy with persons having chronic mental illness to health psychology onsultation and liaison. His theoretical orientation combines existential-phenomen-ological and family systems tenets. He is noted for past research in developing family interventions for schizophrenia. He supervises interns in both adult psychotherapy and evaluation. He is on the clinical faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Lisa Goldstein-Foo, Ph.D., received a dual doctoral degree in clinical psychology and child psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2007. She provides therapy, assessment, and consultation services to children, adolescents, and adults through the Traumatic Brain Injury Program, Child/Adolescent Psychology Clinic, Huntington's Disease Clinic, Burn Unit, Pediatric Unit, and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She also provides supervision to psychology trainees. Clinical interests include health psychology, child/adolescent mental health, and adjustment following traumatic events.
Helena Mackenzie, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree in clinical psychology from Kent State University in 2001. She provides assessment and psychotherapy services in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service, psychotherapy services in the Adult Therapy Clinic and inpatient Adult Assessment Clinic. She consults to the child and adult medical units and supervises interns and fellows on the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service and Adult Assessment Clinic rotation. Research and clinical interests include aggressive behavior, domestic violence, and anxiety disorders.
Monica Mandell, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree in clinical psychology from the University
of Minnesota in 1987. She is the Director of the Psychology Training Program. Other training responsibilities include teaching and supervision of cognitive behavioral therapies. She provides clinical services to adult psychiatric inpatients and outpatients, as well as psycho-logical consultation to the HCMC Burn Center, Oncology Department, and other medical services. She is part of the Women's Mental Health Program. Specific areas of clinical interest include health psychology, post-traumatic stress disorder, and women's mental health. Her research interests include psychosocial adjustment to physical trauma and the impact of psychiatric disorders during and after pregnancy. She is a member of the HCMC Institutional Review Board.
Paul S. Marshall, Ph.D., L.P., received his degree in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Neuropsychology Laboratory at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in 1992. He serves as the clinical neuro-psychologist for the Department of Psychiatry, providing comprehensive psychological assess-ment of psychiatric inpatients and outpatients. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical
Neuropsychology and the American Board of Professional Psychology. Research interests include the effects of immune system dysregulation on cognitive functions and mood, and the use of attention testing in differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders.
Amanda Mulfinger, Ph.D., received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Auburn University in 2007. Currently, she is a staff psychologist in the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic at HCMC, working on a multi-disciplinary team with cases of mild to moderate brain injuries. She co-leads a process-oriented psychotherapy group, sees adult patients in the HFA Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, and consults to medical units throughout the hospital. Additionally, she works with the Adult Assessment Clinic and provides supervision for trainees. Clinical interests include health psychology, eating disorders -- specifically binge eating, and ajustment to trauma.
Vivian Pearlman, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree from the Psychology in the Schools Training Program at the University of Minnesota in 1980. She provides assessment and psychotherapy services in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service and psycho-therapy services in the Adult Evaluation and Therapy clinic. She supervises interns and fellows in the Child Adolescent Psychiatry Service. She also provides psychological consultation to the pediatric inpatients. Her clinical interests include assessment and treatment of survivors of childhood sexual abuse, psychotherapy with adolescents, and parenting skills training. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota.
Linda Pettersen, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree from the Clinical Psychology Training Program
at the University of Minnesota in 1987. She provides clinical services in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service and the Adult Therapy Clinic. She is the staff psychologist on HCMC's Pediatric Brain Injury Team, a multidisciplinary group providing acute
and reha-bilitative care to children who have sustained serious brain injuries. She supervises interns and fellows in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Service, and provides supervision of inpatient pediatric medical con-sultation. She has published in the areas of infant perception and pediatric brain injury. Her clinical interests include assessment and intervention with traumatically injured children and their families, and the cognitive and social consequences
of pediatric brain injury. She has
specialized training in clinical hypnosis and disaster mental health response.
Andrea Szporn, Ph.D., L.P., received her degree in clinical psychology from New York University
in 2001. She provides assessment and psychotherapy services in the Adult Therapy Clinic. She supervises interns and fellows on adult therapy and assessment. In addition, she provides psychological consultation to adult inpatients throughout the hospital. She is also the psychologist consultant to the Bariatric Surgery Program at the hospital. Research and
clinical interests include the development of empathy, the effects of maternal depression on children, women's mental health issues, psychodynamic case formulation, and the use of brain-imaging techniques to better understand psychiatric disorders.
David E. Tupper, Ph.D., L.P., received his degree in Neuropsychology from the University
of Victoria. He is the Director of the Neuropsychology Section at HCMC, which provides neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation services to children and adults with neurological or neurodevelopmental dysfunction. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of
Neuropsychology, a charter member of the Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation, and a clinical neuropsychologist, board-certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He has written and edited a variety of books and chapters, and has published articles in neuro-psychology and rehabilitation psychology. He is on the editorial
board of the Neuro-psychology Review and has served on several local and national committees and boards.
His clinical interests include children and adults with head injuries and executive impairment from frontal lobe lesions. Research interests include cross-cultural approaches to neuropsy-chological assessment, consequences of cerebral impairment, and
subtle neuropsychological deficiencies in children with suspected learning disorders.
Amelia (Mia) Versland, Ph.D, L.P., received her degree in clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University in 2006. Clinical activities at HCMC include assessment and psychotherapy services to adults in the Adult Psychiatry Clinic and Womens Mental Health Clinic, testing to psychiatric inpatients, consultation to child and adult medical patients, and facilitation of an outpatient interpersonal process therapy group. In these roles, she also provides supervision to psychology interns and the postdoctoral fellow. Her theoretical orientation is integrative, including cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and interpersonal process. Clinical interests include working with patients with dual diagnoses (e.g., psychiatric and medical; psychiatric and substance abuse). Program development interests include expanding services to dual diagnosis patients. Research interests include motivational interviewing, assessment and treatment of dual diagnoses, and craving interventions.
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