Dr. Stephen Messer
Dr. Messer received his Master’s Degree in Experimental/General Psychology from East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, and his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Mississippi. He completed his clinical psychology residency at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he trained in the nationally recognized Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC), and gained expertise in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a broad range of child, adolescent, and adult disorders, as well as in cognitive behavioral interventions.
Dr. Messer received four NIMH Fellowship training awards to include Clinical Research Methods for Psychologists at WPIC, Developmental Epidemiology & Services Research at Duke University School of Medicine/C.G. Sheps Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in Behavior Genetics and Developmental Psychopathology at the George Washington University School of Medicine/Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC. He served as a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University, a Research Professor at Children’s National Medical Center, and is currently on faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda MD. He has received significant extramural research funding /awards from the National Association for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD), SAMHSA, NIMH, and the DoD.
Over the last decade, he has worked in the military setting, serving as the Chief of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and is currently the Deputy Director of Research at the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. Throughout his career, Dr. Messer has been fascinated with, and has studied, the risk, course, and outcomes of mental health disorders, and the most powerful methodologies to address such antecedents, processes, and sequelae.
Dr. Messer’s role as statistical/methodological consultant began while he was completing his doctoral degree as he was selected to work as a University Statistical Consultant, a position that featured extensive one-on-one consultation with other graduate students and faculty. In his various roles since graduating with his Ph.D., Dr. Messer has continued to provide statistical and methodological consultation to colleagues and students at various institutions/centers. Dr. Messer has an extensive publication history with over 35 peer-reviewed journal articles, a half-dozen book chapters, and approximately a hundred presentations at national conferences, NIMH and DoD workgroups, and testimony to Congressional staff, on a broad array of topics relevant to clinical psychology and methodology.
Dr. Amarilis Acevedo
Dr. Acevedo received her doctorate in physiological psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). She subsequently completed an APA-approved respecialization program in clinical psychology followed by a neuropsychology internship at the Boston V.A. Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Acevedo completed a post-doctoral fellowship in forensic neuropsychology at the Department of Neurology of the University of Miami School of Medicine. Dr. Acevedo holds a Diplomate from the American Board of Professional Psychology with specialty in clinical neuropsychology. Prior to joining NSU Center for Psychological Studies, Dr. Acevedo was the Director of Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where she also served as the Associate Director of the Neuropsychology Program.
Dr. Acevedo has been a co-investigator in several research grants funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the state of Florida. In addition, Dr. Acevedo served as a consultant to specialized and prestigious projects including the Toolbox Project for the Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function Across the Lifespan of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); the Neuropsychological Special Task Force of the National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Centers (NACC); and the U.S.A.-Venezuela Huntington's Disease Collaborative Research Project.
Dr. Acevedo has published extensively in peer reviewed journals in areas related to early prediction of cognitive decline in English- and Spanish-speaking elders, cognitive interventions in patients with mild Alzheimer’s disease, and the development of new tests to identify early memory loss among the elderly. One of her areas of expertise, and the subject of several of her scientific publications, book chapters, professional presentations, and interviews on radio and television, is the cognitive assessment of individuals of heterogeneous ethno-cultural/linguistic backgrounds and the early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.
Dr. Acevedo’s main interests include geriatric psychology and neuropsychology, cognitive sequelae of degenerative and non-degenerative neurological disorders, cross-cultural neuropsychology, neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation of neurocognitive disorders, and neurogenetics.
Dean Roni Leiderman (Mailman Segal Institute) and I are pleased to announce the joint appointment of Dr. F. Charles (Bud) Mace as the Unicorn Children’s Foundation Professor of Psychology in the Center for Psychological Studies and Executive Director of the Autism Institute of Mailman Segal Institute at Nova Southeastern University. We believe this appointment will contribute to building a center for excellence in our division, to advancing training, research, and service activities, and creating expanded opportunities for students.
Dr. F. Charles Mace
Professor Mace has held faculty positions at Lehigh University, Rutgers University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the University of Wales, and the University of Southern Maine. At each university, he developed programs for children with developmental disabilities that have served as nationally recognized sites for research and post-graduate training.
Professor Mace has published over 100 research papers and book chapters and his work is among the most highly cited in behavioral psychology. Five of his papers are ranked as citation classics, having been cited well over 100 times each. In 2004, he was ranked 6th among all applied behavior analysts in research productivity for the period 1992-2001. His research has concentrated on the functional analysis of severe behavior disorders, behavioral momentum, and the Matching Law. In 1995, he received the prestigious Don F. Hake Award for Translational Research from the American Psychological Association. Considered a career achievement award, Professor Mace is the youngest person to receive the Hake award.
Professor Mace is the Past-President of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. He also serves on the editorial boards of several leading research journals and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) from 1999-2001. Currently, Professor Mace is the Editor for Translational Research for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. He has been the principal investigator for several state and federal research grants including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the United States Office of Special Education Research, and the Welsh Office for Research and Development.
We thank the search committees: Chair (Reitman) and members of the search committee (Lewis, Valley Gray, Reeve and Hebb); and Chair Dr. Mark Sobell and members Ed Simco, Christian DeLucia, and Renee La Forte for their diligent work.
Please join us in welcoming Drs. Stephen Messer, Amarilis Acevedo, and F. Charles Mace to the CPS faculty.
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