Rosie Phillips Davis, PhD, ABPP, 2019 American Psychological Association President; Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Memphis.

Davis’ scholarship focuses on the power of inclusion, multicultural vocational psychology, ethics and living well in a diverse society. She has served on the editorial boards of several journals, the authored numerous articles, and book chapters and has co-edited two books. She is a co-founder of APA’s Biennial National Multicultural Conference and Summit.
Davis’ professional awards include the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Institutional Practice, Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship, the Tennessee Psychological Association Len Handler Award for Distinguished Research Psychologist, two APA Presidential Citations, and the Leona Tyler Award for Lifetime Achievement in Counseling Psychology.
 

Dr. Alina Suris was a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She also recently retired from the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System where she was the Chief of Psychology and a funded Senior Research Psychologist. She has several research interests and publications including the nosology of mental illness with a focus on PTSD, the assessment and treatment of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and combat and disaster-related PTSD, and evidence-based and novel interventions for treating PTSD. She has won many awards for her research including the Gerald R. Klerman NARSAD Young Investigator Award and the George Winokur Award, twice. She is the Past President of the American Board of Clinical Psychology and served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Professional Psychology for five years. She was the first chair of the Early Career Psychologist Committee, chairing several committees for the Clinical Board and served as their National Examination Coordinator as well. She also served as the Clinical Trustee to ABPP for eight years. Dr. Suris is a Fellow of Division 18 of the American Psychological Association, being recognized for her contributions to the understanding of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and evidence-based treatment of women and men with PTSD.
 

Leonardo J. Caraballo, PsyD, ABPP, is an inpatient psychologist for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry for Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from La Salle University in 2013. He is board certified in Clinical Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). He serves as the Vice-President, Treasurer, Academy Membership Director, and Mentorship Coordinator for the American Board of Clinical Psychology and as the Early Career Psychologist Trustee for ABPP. He also serves on APA’s Membership Board and is a past President of the Arizona Psychological Association.
 

Diana Diaków is a Polish-Ukrainian multilingual psychologist, humanitarian aid worker, and global mental health scholar who earned her PhD in School Psychology from the University of Montana. Clinically, Diana specializes in trauma-informed and culturally responsive family and child mental health interventions and assessments and has gained her experience in schools, refugee camps,  community mental health, crisis and residential care settings across eight countries. Diana is an alumna of Utah Regional Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental And Related Disabilities Program focused on interprofessional healthcare, as well as The Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery Program from Harvard Medical School. Diana’s research interests include refugees’ mental health and resilience, multilingualism, and social justice. As a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support humanitarian aid worker and trainer, Diana has done extensive field work to support forcibly displaced persons in Central and South-Eastern Europe, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean regions, Colombia, and the USA. Diana is a linguist specialized in Arabic with 10 years of teaching experience across seven different languages. 
 

Dr. Maria Agustina Rossetti, PhD, ABPP is a certified bilingual adult neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia.  She is a native Spanish-speaker from Argentina. From early on in her training, she was determined to make cross-cultural neuropsychology an important and central part of her career, and she enjoys supporting and caring for Spanish-speaking patients as she reflects upon her own journey as an immigrant and multicultural individual. Dr. Rossetti is a member of the department's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Additionally, she is actively involved in UVA's Latinx Employee Resource Group and a local non-profit organization that supports and serves the immigrant Hispanic community in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has a specific clinical interest in dementias and movement disorders, particularly Huntington’s disease, and is involved in Factor-H, a not-for-profit organization that aims to diminish the suffering of people affected by Huntington’s Disease living in conditions of extreme vulnerability in Latin America. 

 

Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, Ph.D., ABPP, is a licensed psychologist who is originally from Sierra Leone. She is Board Certified in Group Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). A tenured Professor in the Department of Psychology at the City College of New York, the City University of New York (CUNY) and at the Graduate Center, CUNY, she has cared for forced migrants, as well as survivors of torture, armed conflict, and human rights abuses from around the world at the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture since 1999.