- Norman B. Anderson
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Norman Bruce Anderson, PhD (born October 16, 1955) is Chief Executive Officer of the American Psychological Association (APA),[1] the largest scientific and professional association for psychologists in the United States. Anderson became the APA’s first African-American CEO when he was named to the post in 2003.
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Career
Anderson was the founding director of the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.[2] While with NIH from 1995 to 2000, he was charged with facilitating behavioral and social sciences research across all NIH institutes and centers. He was an associate professor at Duke University Medical School from 1991 to 1999, and the Harvard School of Public Health from 2000 to 2002. While at Harvard, Anderson sat on faculty recruitment, scholarship funding and graduate school admissions boards. Much of his research and writing focused on the effects of stress on biology and risk for hypertension.
With his wife, P. Elizabeth Anderson, he wrote a health book for the general public, Emotional Longevity: What Really Determines How Long You Live,[3] released in 2003.
Professional affiliations
- Editor in chief of “The Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior" [4] and APA’s flagship journal, "American Psychologist." [5]
- Fellow of APA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[6] the American Psychological Society,[7] the Society of Behavioral Medicine [8] and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.[9]
- Past president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine [10]
- Past president, Steven Spielberg’s Starbright Foundation Board of Directors.[11]
Education
A graduate of the North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., Anderson earned master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received additional clinical and research training at the schools of medicine at Brown and Duke Universities, including postdoctoral fellowships in psychophysiology and aging at Duke.
Awards
- American Association of Applied and Prevention Psychology, Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Psychological Study of Diversity, 1996;[12]
- Third National Multicultural Conference and Summit, Dalmas Taylor Award, 2003;[13]
- Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, Career Service Award, 2003;[14]
- Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Honorary Doctorate of Psychology, 2003;[15]
- Lonnie Mitchell Annual Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and Substance Abuse, Award for Enduring Contributions in the Interest of Science, 2004.[16]
Personal
Born October 16, 1955, in Greensboro, N.C., to Charles W. and Lois J. Anderson.
References
- ^ http://www.apa.org/about/governance/council/members/norman-b-anderson.aspx
- ^ http://obssr.od.nih.gov/about_obssr/staff/anderson_bio.aspx
- ^ http://www.powells.com/biblio/63-9780142003954-0
- ^ http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book225665
- ^ http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/amp/
- ^ http://php.aaas.org/about/aaas_fellows/list.php
- ^ http://www.apa.org/about/governance/council/members/norman-b-anderson.aspx
- ^ http://www.sbm.org/about/fellows.asp
- ^ http://www.academyofbmr.org/
- ^ http://obssr.od.nih.gov/about_obssr/staff/anderson_bio.aspx
- ^ http://www.starlight.org/board/
- ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3431100008.html
- ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/norman-b-anderson
- ^ http://www.health-psych.org/AwardsHistory.cfm
- ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/norman-b-anderson
- ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/norman-b-anderson
External links
Categories:- Living people
- 1955 births
- American psychologists
- Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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