Susan H. McDaniel is an American psychologist and the Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families & Health at the

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), now known as UR Medicine, is located in Rochester, New York, is one of the main campuses of the University of Rochester and comprises the university's primary medical education, research and pat ...

. She was the 2016 president of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Biography

McDaniel was raised in the American South, where her father was a physician and her mother was a homemaker. She attended college at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. She earned a Ph.D. in

clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. McDaniel completed her internship at the University of Texas Medical Branch and completed postdoctoral training at the Texas Research Institute for Mental Sciences. At the University of Rochester, McDaniel is the Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families and Health for the Department of Psychiatry. She also directs the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Patient- and Family-Centered Care Coaching Program and is associate chair of the family medicine department at URMC. McDaniel has received awards related to teaching, including a 2011 Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award and the inaugural Cummings PSYCHE Prize from the American Psychological Foundation in 2007. During her campaign for APA president, McDaniel established two priorities for her term: preparing psychologists as leaders and integrating psychology into provision of other types of health care.

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