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<strong>UCSF</strong> <strong>Clinical</strong> <strong>Psychology</strong> <strong>Training</strong> <strong>Program</strong><br />
earned her B.S. degree in <strong>Psychology</strong> in 1967, her M.S. degree<br />
in <strong>Psychology</strong> in 1969 and her Ph.D. degree in <strong>Psychology</strong> in<br />
1971 all from Washington State University. In 2003, she<br />
received the George Sarlo prize for teaching from the<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Psychiatry.<br />
WILLIAM D. HOOKER is Associate <strong>Clinical</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
in the <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Psychiatry and LPPI. He earned the B.A.<br />
degree in psychology from the University <strong>of</strong> California,<br />
Berkeley in 1978, the Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology from<br />
Michigan State University in 1984, and was a postdoctoral<br />
Fellow in neuropsychology at the San Francisco VA Hospital in<br />
1985. He is a Diplomate <strong>of</strong> the American Board <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional<br />
Neuropsychology. His primary clinical interests are<br />
psychological and neuropsychological assessment for diagnostic<br />
and forensic purposes. Dr. Hooker has published in the areas <strong>of</strong><br />
neuropsychology, electrophysiology, pharmacokinetics,<br />
computer assisted testing and psychological testing in the<br />
workplace.<br />
VANESSA KELLY is an Assistant <strong>Clinical</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor at<br />
the <strong>UCSF</strong> <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Psychiatry, San Francisco General<br />
Hospital. Dr. Kelly serves as coordinator <strong>of</strong> the Traumatic Stress<br />
Treatment <strong>Program</strong> within the Psychosocial Medicine<br />
Outpatient Clinic at SFGH, as well as at the Trauma Recovery<br />
Center. She earned her M.A. in <strong>Psychology</strong> from Antioch<br />
University in 1983, and her Psy.D. from the California School<br />
<strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional <strong>Psychology</strong> - Alameda in 1997. Dr. Kelly has<br />
over 20 years <strong>of</strong> experience in the fields <strong>of</strong> sexual assault,<br />
sexual abuse, domestic violence, and traumatic loss, including<br />
serving as the executive director <strong>of</strong> the Rape Crisis Center in<br />
Boulder, Colorado, chair for the Colorado Coalition Against<br />
Sexual Assault, and co-producer <strong>of</strong> a documentary about the<br />
psychological sequelae following sexual violence. She has also<br />
served as co-chair <strong>of</strong> the San Francisco Adult Sexual Assault<br />
Task Force. Her clinical and research interests include treatment<br />
outcome for low-income, ethnic minority victims <strong>of</strong><br />
interpersonal violence, psychological effects <strong>of</strong> prostitution; and<br />
the influence <strong>of</strong> early attachment patterns and object relations<br />
on the treatment <strong>of</strong> traumatized adults. Dr. Kelly is also<br />
interested in educating mental health pr<strong>of</strong>essionals about the<br />
acute and long-term impact <strong>of</strong> trauma on individuals and<br />
communities.<br />
JOEL KRAMER is a <strong>Clinical</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in the<br />
<strong>Department</strong>s <strong>of</strong> Neurology, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and<br />
directs the neuropsychology program at the <strong>UCSF</strong> Memory and<br />
Aging Center. He received a Psy.D. from Baylor University in<br />
1982 and completed a one-year post-doctoral program in<br />
Neuropsychology at the V.A. Medical Center in Martinez. He is<br />
an ABPP diplomate in <strong>Clinical</strong> Neuropsychology. Current<br />
research activities include studies <strong>of</strong> normal and abnormal<br />
memory, attention and executive functioning, differential<br />
diagnosis <strong>of</strong> dementia, brain-behavioral correlations in<br />
dementia, and sex differences in cognition. Dr. Kramer has also<br />
been active in the development <strong>of</strong> neuropsychological measures<br />
<strong>of</strong> executive functioning and memory.<br />
BEVERLY K. LEHR is <strong>Clinical</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Psychology</strong><br />
in the <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Psychiatry at <strong>UCSF</strong> and is a staff<br />
neuropsychologist in the LPPI Adult Psychiatry Clinic, where<br />
she coordinates training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. She<br />
received her Ph.D. from the University <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin -<br />
Milwaukee in 1986, completed her clinical internship at the Palo<br />
Alto V.A. Medical Center, and a two-year postdoctoral<br />
fellowship at Rush-Presbyterian, St. Luke's Medical Center in<br />
25<br />
Chicago, Illinois. Her major interest is in the psychological<br />
treatment <strong>of</strong> neurologically impaired adults.<br />
ALICIA F. LIEBERMAN is Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Psychology</strong> and<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> the Child Trauma Research Project, San Francisco<br />
General Hospital. She is also clinical consultant with the San<br />
Francisco <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Human Services. She is the Director <strong>of</strong><br />
the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a four-university national<br />
collaborative that is one <strong>of</strong> the centers <strong>of</strong> the SAMHSA-funded<br />
National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Dr. Lieberman<br />
received her B.A. from the Hebrew University <strong>of</strong> Jerusalem and<br />
Ph.D. from The John Hopkins University. Active in major<br />
national organizations involved with mental health in infancy<br />
and early childhood, she is President Elect <strong>of</strong> Zero to Three:<br />
National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, on the Board<br />
<strong>of</strong> Trustees <strong>of</strong> the Irving Harris Foundation, and on the<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Advisory Board <strong>of</strong> the Johnson & Johnson<br />
Pediatric Institute, and consults with the Miriam and Peter Haas<br />
Fund on projects involving early childhood education for Arab-<br />
Israeli children. Dr. Lieberman has served on peer review panels<br />
<strong>of</strong> the National Institute <strong>of</strong> Mental Health. She is the author <strong>of</strong><br />
The Emotional World <strong>of</strong> the Toddler (The Free Press, 1993),<br />
which has been translated to seven languages, and senior author<br />
<strong>of</strong> Losing a Parent to Death in the Early Years: Treating<br />
Traumatic Bereavement in Infancy and Early Childhood (Zero<br />
to Three Press, 2004) and Don't Hit My Mommy!: A Manual for<br />
Child-Parent Psychotherapy with Young Witnesses <strong>of</strong> Family<br />
Violence (2005).<br />
KEITH McBURNETT is Associate Adjunct Pr<strong>of</strong>essor in<br />
Psychiatry at LPPI. He trained in child clinical psychology at<br />
The University <strong>of</strong> Georgia and as a rehabilitation psychology<br />
intern at New York University Medical Center, graduating in<br />
1989. He held a faculty appointment in Pediatrics at University<br />
<strong>of</strong> California at Irvine from 1990 to 1997. From 1997 through<br />
2001, he held a faculty appointment in Child Psychiatry at the<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Chicago. He came to LPPI in 2001 to launch<br />
research and clinical programs in disruptive behavior disorders<br />
(ADHD, ODD, CD), in collaboration with Linda Pfiffner, Ph.D.<br />
Dr. McBurnett maintains an active clinical research program<br />
(multiple grants and clinical drug trials; over 50 scientific<br />
publications), focusing on diagnostic categorization and on<br />
biological factors (endocrine, neurocognitive, genetic) factors in<br />
child externalizing psychopathology. In 2003 he became an<br />
Associate Editor <strong>of</strong> the Journal <strong>of</strong> Abnormal Child <strong>Psychology</strong>.<br />
DALE E. McNIEL is Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Clinical</strong> <strong>Psychology</strong> in<br />
the <strong>UCSF</strong> <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Psychiatry and Chief Psychologist at<br />
LPPI. He earned the B.A. degree from Lewis and Clark College<br />
in 1978, and completed the Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a<br />
minor in neuropsychology in 1983 at the University <strong>of</strong> Arizona.<br />
He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Psychiatry at <strong>UCSF</strong>, and is Board Certified in both <strong>Clinical</strong><br />
Neuropsychology and Forensic <strong>Psychology</strong> by the American<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essional <strong>Psychology</strong> (ABPP). He is a Fellow <strong>of</strong> the<br />
American Psychological Association (Divisions <strong>of</strong> <strong>Clinical</strong><br />
<strong>Psychology</strong> and <strong>Psychology</strong> and Law), and is a former President<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Section on <strong>Clinical</strong> Emergencies and Crises in the APA’s<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> <strong>Clinical</strong> <strong>Psychology</strong>. His research interests focus<br />
primarily on violence and mental disorder, including issues such<br />
as the assessment <strong>of</strong> violence potential, family violence and<br />
victims <strong>of</strong> violence, the role <strong>of</strong> violence in health care resource<br />
allocation, clinical decision-making in the treatment <strong>of</strong> violent<br />
patients, and the prevention <strong>of</strong> assault.