2011 â¢ NYS Psychologist - New York State Psychological Association

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Allen V. Williams, Jr. Memorial Award The Allen V. Williams Jr. Memorial Award, NYSPA's highest honor, is awarded annually by NYSPA's Council of Representatives to a psychologist who has contributed significantly to the progression of psychology and/or has made a unique contribution to the New York State Psychological Association. Dr. Barbara Fontana was the Allen V. Williams Jr. Memorial Award 2011 honoree. Dr. Fontana's award was presented by Dr. Laurence Baker Citation: Barbara Fontana, PhD Dr. Fontana was on Council for six years as a representative of Suffolk. She was the first Member-at-Large to the Executive Committee from Council. She has been on the Finance Committee. She just finished working on the revamp as a member of the Committee on the Referral Service. One of the important and famous things about her, since 2007 she has been co-chair of the Committee for Psychotherapy Practice, CPP, which is NYSPA's attempt, with varying degrees of desperation depending upon the weather, to make psychotherapy practice a viable business as well as a useful and valuable service, among other things. She is secretary of NYSPA, which is quite a job and one she does phenomenally well. And upon the recent resignation of NYSPA's treasurer, Barbara in a demonstration of questionable judgment volunteered to fill in as treasurer. So she is now secretary and treasurer, maintaining two demanding jobs at once. In addition to NYSPA, Dr. Fontana is a member-at-large on the board of the Suffolk County Psychological Association and its past president and current coordinator of its mentoring program. She has been part of a peer supervision group for almost 20 years, with other private practice people. She is a volunteer at the Pre- Cana program at her church for 10 years. She stated that among her passions are photography and kayaking. She has been a trustee for a rural cemetery that is an historic landmark for 10 years. I am deeply honored to be this year's recipient of the Allen V. Williams Award and to have been nominated with Jerry Grodin and Richard Wexler, who are outstanding psychologists and leaders. As I have looked back on many years as a psychologist, I asked myself why I feel so active within my profession, and I think of some of the right lessons that my parents taught me. One is that you can accomplish anything if you are determined and you try hard enough, and another is that it is really important to be reliable and dependable. Secondly, the importance of giving back to your community by volunteering and by mentoring others, and the last and the most important one for me, which I learned from my dad: to treat everyone with lots of kindness. I have done many things within NYSPA, but the most part of my work on the Committee on Psychotherapy Practice, has been advocating for the many psychologists who want to continue to provide psychotherapy. I hope that as we actually face the challenges that will come with prosperity from HDO and medical homes. We will not abandon psychotherapy as one of our profession's core activities. As Dr. Jonathan Shepard told us yesterday, psycho-therapy works. I believe that if we can work together in an atmosphere of trust and respect, we can find the way for psychologists to earn a decent living while providing psychotherapy. I also believe that we can develop ways to establish opportunities for psychologists to do both of these things in the future, and thirdly I believe that if we work together, we can also get psychologists fairer terms in healthcare. Before I close, I would like to just thank a few people. I thank Council for selecting me for this honor. When I heard it, I was actually speechless and as most of you know that that doesn't happen very often. I would like thank Dianne Polowczyk for believing in me and asking me to co-chair CPP. I certainly never would have done it if Dianne had not. I would like to thank George Northrup, Jerry, and Dianne who have served with me on CPP since the beginning. You have been great people to work with and I treasure your friendship. I would like to thank the Suffolk County Psychological Association because that has been my professional home with wonderful colleagues for me over the last 30 years. And last but not least I would like to thank my children, Gina and David, for being here today and for what you have all been to my life. I would also like to invite each of you if you have not gotten the dashboard/bumper sticker for your car, do so. This is a CPP project and each of the divisions contributed $25 to make this happen, so thank you to all and take it each of us and let us spread the word that, so that everyone wants to talk to a psychologist. Thank you. Past awardees since the establishment of the Allen V. Williams, Jr. Memorial Award in 1980 are: 2010 Larry Baker 2009 Gayle Berg 2008 June Feder 2007 Max Heinrich 2006 Sharon Brennan 2005 JoanneLifshin 2004 Franklin H. Goldberg 2003 Barbara Cowen 2002 Michael J. Sullivan 2001 Sandra E. Tars 2000 Lester Schad 1999 George Stricker 1998 David Nevin 1997 John D. Hogan 1996 John Northman 1995 Leonore Loeb Adler 1994 Florence Denmark 1993 Harry Sands 1992 Richard Cohen 1991 Sidney (Bud) Orgel 1990 Joseph Zubin 1989 Ted Reiss 1988 Reuben Silver 1987 Ruth Ochroch 1986 Virginia Staudt Sexton 1985 Helena Mallay Lesk 1984 Howard Cohen 1983 Justin P. Carey 1982 Milton Theaman 1981 Samuel Pearlman 1980 Doris K. Miller Page 32 Vol. XXIII No. 2 • Fall 2011 • NYS Psychologist
Presidential Award Dr. Donna Rasin-Waters, president of NYSPA (2011) presented awards to the following recipients for their tremendous contributions to the association: Valerie Abel, PhD Peter Kanaris, PhD William Barr, PhD NYSPA Distinguished Service Awards NYSPA's Awards Committee each year selects psychologists who have given exemplary service to the New York State Psychological Association and acknowledge NYSPA's appreciation for their outstanding performances and contributions. Citation: Chris Allen, PhD Dr. Allen is on NYSPA's Council of Representative as well as a representative of Central New York Psychological Association. She is on the Task Force on Representation as well as the Bylaws Task Force, which appears at times to be a permanent assignment with an endless task. She has been an Executive Committee member-atlarge, was on the Committee on Strategic Planning and has been a past president of her regional. She is in private practice and has an executive coaching business. She is an adjunct faculty member at Syracuse University, and is at Upstate Medical University where she supervises residents. She has a wonderful husband, two kids and three cats. Citation: Lenny Davidman, PhD Dr. Davidman is a member-at-large on the Executive Committee. He is treasurer of the Manhattan Psych Association. He is NYSPA's unofficial media watchdog and critic. He is on the PLANY board. He is, since 1977, at the Metropolitan Hospital Center, where he was chief psychologist. Since 1978, at New York Medical College, he is an assistant professor. He has been a swimming instructor for a while, and he was a taxi driver. He was a waiter during the NYSPA convention at the Concord Hotel when he was 17, which has to be roughly 100 years ago. And at the other end of it he is being trained in terrorism counter-surveillance by a professional Jewish security agency. Citation: Leah Klungness, PhD Dr. Klingness has been intricate in bringing NYSPA into the social media arena. She has been focused on social networking, specifically on Twitter, where her account is said to have more followers than APA's. Sidney A. (Bud) Orgel Memorial Award The Sidney A. (Bud) Orgel Memorial Award was established in 2005 to honor an early career psychologist. The honoree for 2011 was Frank Corigliano. The award was presented by the Chair of the Awards Committee, Dr. Laurence Baker at NYSPA's Annual Convention, 2011. Citation: Frank Corigliano, PhD Dr. Corigliano completed his internship at the Friends Hospital in Philadelphia, which is the oldest private psychiatric hospital in the United States. He was on the Convention and Marketing committees. He is now active with the Clinical Division. He was representative of NOFP to Council, and president of NOFP. His biggest NYSPA-related work now is with the Extern-ship Fair. He is obviously an up and coming psychologist even before he is officially called a psychologist. Page 33 Vol. XXIII No. 2 • Fall 2011 • NYS Psychologist
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