Board of Directors
Officers
Wendy Ward, PhD, ABPP
President
Director of Interprofessional Faculty Development
UAMS Office of Interprofessional Education
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UAMS College of Medicine
Jennifer Shroff Pendley, PhD
Past President
Division of Psychology
Nemours- Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, DE
Laura E. Simons, PhD
President Elect
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine
Stanford University Medical School
Robin Everhart, PhD
Treasurer (2020-2022)
Associate Professor, Health Psychology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
Erica Sood, PhD
Secretary (2019-2021)
Department of Cardiology
Nemours - Alfred I. du Pont Hospital for Children
Talleyville, DE
Chad Jensen, PhD
Member at Large (2020-2022) Continuing Education
Associate Professor of Psychology
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT
Melissa Santos, PhD
Member at Large (2019-2021) Diversity
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Department of Pediatric Obesity
Hartford, CT
Eleanor Mackey, PhD
Member at Large (2021-2023) Membership
Department of Psychology
Children’s National Health System
Washington, DC
Idia Thurston, PhD
Member at Large (2019-2021) Student/Trainee Development
Texas A&M University
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences & Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences
College Station, TX
Anne Kazak, PhD, ABPP
Historian (2013-2022), APA Council Representative (2016-2021)
Center for Healthcare Delivery Science
A.I. du Pont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, DE
Terry Stancin, PhD, ABPP
APA Council Representative (2019-2021)
MetroHealth
Cleveland, OH
Appointed Members
Sahar Eshtehardi, MS
Student Representative (2021-2022)
Counseling Psychology, Health Psychology Track
Department of Psychological, Health, & Learning Sciences
University of Houston
Tonya M. Palermo, PhD
JPP Editor
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Child Health, Behavior and Development
Seattle, WA
Dustin P. Wallace, PhD
Web Master and Listserv Manager (2021-2023)
Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City, MO
Meghan Tuohy Walls, PsyD
Electronic Communications Manager (2021)
Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, DE
Melanie Noel, PhD, RPsych
APA Program Chair (2022)
Department of Psychology
University of Calgary
Emily F. Law, PhD
SPPAC Program Chair (2022)
Pediatric Psychologist Multidisciplinary Headache Clinic
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA
Soumitri Sil, PhD
SPPAC Program Co-Chair (2023)
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Management
Laura E. Degnon, CAE
