Susan H. McDaniel, Ph.D.
Board Member, 7/04-6/10

Susan McDaniel is Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Associate Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and Director of Family Programs & the Wynne Center for Family Research in the Department of Psychiatry, at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. Her special areas of interest are behavioral health in primary care, and family dynamics and genetic conditions. She is co-editor, with Thomas Campbell, M.D., of the multidisciplinary journal, Families, Systems & Health. She co-authored or co-edited eleven books: Systems Consultation (1986) Family-Oriented Primary Care (1990 and 2005), Medical Family Therapy (1992), Integrating Family Therapy (1995), Counseling Families with Chronic Illness (1995), The Shared Experience of Illness (1997), the Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy (2001), Primary Care Psychology (2004), The Biopsychosocial Approach: Past, Present, and Future (2004), and Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genetics (2007). Her books have been translated into German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Dr. McDaniel has been recognized by the American Psychological Association as the 1995 Family Psychologist of the Year; she received the award for Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy from AFTA in 2000, the Award for Distinguished Contribution to Education from the Association of Medical School Psychologists in 2004, and she will receive the American Psychological Foundation Cummings PSYCHE Prize in 2007. She was the first psychologist, representing APA, to complete the Bureau of Health Professions Primary Care Policy Fellowship in 1998. Dr. McDaniel was Chair of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education in 1998, President of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association in 2000, and Chair of the APA Publications and Communications Board in 2003.

Dr. McDaniel joined AFTA in 1983 and served on the AFTA Board from 1995-2001, and is pleased to be serving again since 2005. She served as Liaison Committee Chair (1991-95) and was a Co-Chair for the 1994 Clinical Research Conference.