Faculty

Faculty members, known as the Core Program Faculty in Clinical Psychology, teach primarily in the Ph.D. program and thus devote their energies to your education. The Core Faculty for the Ph.D. program form a unit which maintains primary responsibility for the program. Members of the Core Faculty meet as a group to set policy and administer the program. The Core Faculty devote many hours to achieve the development of a scholarly and professionally well balanced program.

Faculty Accomplishments
Program award: 2007 Outstanding Training Program from the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies.

Dr. Phyllis Ohr was the 2010 APAGS Raymond Fowler Award recipient for Outstanding Mentorship of Doctoral Students.

Dr. Mitchell Schare was the 2007 award recipient for Outstanding Service to the Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies.

Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology - ABPP

Board Certified in Clinical Psychology (Kassinove)
Board Certified in Cognitive & Behavioral Therapy (Schare & Kassinove)

Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Salzinger)
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Kassinove)

• Divisions of Clinical, Psychotherapy, Independent Practice, and International Psychology

Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Sanderson)
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (Kassinove)
Fellow of the American Psychopathological Association (Sanderson & Serper)
Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment (Guarnaccia)
Clinical Fellow of the Behavior Therapy and Research Society (Kassinove)
Fellow of the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy (Kassinove)

President of the American Board of Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology (Kassinove).
President of the Eastern Psychological Association (Salzinger)

Editor of The Clinical Psychologist (Sanderson)
Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management (O'Brien)
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy (Serper)
Editorial Board of WebMD Psychiatry (Sanderson)
Editorial Board of Behaviour Research and Therapy (Sanderson)
Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Sports Psychology (O'Brien)
Editorial Board of the Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy (Kassinove)
Board of Advisors for the Journal of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy & Cognitive Behavior Therapy (Kassinove)

Board of Directors, Membership Issues Coordinator, Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies (Schare)
Board of Directors, Treasurer, Association of Directors of Psychology Training Clinics (Scardapane)
Board of Directors, Member at Large, Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Sanderson)
Institutes Chair, Association for Behavioral & Cognitive Therapies (Scardapane)

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Core Program Faculty in Clinical Psychology

Schare, Mitchell (Ph.D., ABPP, 1985, SUNY @ Binghamton)
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
(Diplomate in Behavioral and Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology)

Dill, Charles (Ph.D., 1981, University of Houston)

Kassinove, Howard (Ph.D. 1970, Adelphi University)
Fellow, American Psychological Association;
(Divisions of Psychotherapy, Clinical Psychology, Independent Practice, and International Psychology)
(Fellow, American Psychological Society)
(Board Certified in Behavioral and Clinical Psychology, ABPP)
(Clinical Fellow, Behavior Therapy and Research Society)

O'Brien, Richard (Ph.D. 1972, West Virginia)
DIRECTOR, Respecialization Program in Professional Psychology

Ohr, Phyllis (Ph.D., 1991, St. John's University)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR for Externship Placement

Sanderson, William (Ph.D. SUNY at Albany, 1988)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR for Internship Placement
(Fellow, American Psychopathological Association)

Scardapane, Joseph (Ph.D., 1983, Hofstra University)
DIRECTOR, Psychological Evaluation, Research and Counseling Clinic

Serper, Mark (Ph.D. 1991, SUNY @ Binghamton)
(Fellow, American Psychopathological Association)

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Faculty Emeritus

Salzinger, Kurt (Ph.D.,1954, Columbia University) | WWW
Senior Scholar in Residence

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Student Counseling Services Division of PERCC

Guthman, John (Ph.D.,1990, Hofstra University)
DIRECTOR

McVey-Noble, Merry (Ph.D., 2000, Hofstra University)

Gillett, Dodie (Ph.D., 2006, University of Southern Mississippi)