CPS Associate Professor Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from American Psychological Association

College of Psychological Studies (CPS) associate professor, Barry Nierenberg, Ph.D., was recently named recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division of Rehabilitation Psychology (Division 22). The award was presented to Nierenberg at the 117th annual APA convention recently held in Toronto, Canada.

Nierenberg holds a Diplomate in Rehabilitation Psychology, is a member of the Executive Board of the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology and is the current President of the Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology. He is also a past President of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology.

For the past 30 years, he has held numerous leadership positions as a psychologist working with other healthcare professionals in hospitals across the country. He has just completed a six year term on the Executive Board of the Florida Department of Health’s Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Advisory Council where he previously held the post of Chairman.

In February of this year, Nierenberg chaired the 11th Annual Rehabilitation Psychology Conference in Jacksonville, FL and he has been appointed Chair for the 2010 Conference. This joint venture between APA’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) had over 200 attendees. Nierenberg presented two papers at the conference.