Timothy Lineberry, M.D. (Chair)
Timothy Lineberry earned his M.D. at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1991, and completed his residency in Psychiatry at Wilford Hall Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas in 1995. He is currently the Chair of the inpatient division, Department of Psychiatry, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He is also Medical Director of the Mayo Psychiatry and Psychology Treatment Center. Dr. Lineberry is course director for Mayo's second year medical school course in psychotherapy. He previously served 12 years in the U.S. Air Force
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Kelly C. Cukrowicz, Ph.D. (Vice-Chair)
Kelly is Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, at Texas Tech University where she is Director of their Suicide and Depression Research Program. She also serves on the faculty and is a clinical supervisor for Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program graduate students. Kelly is a member of several professional organizations, and has served as Annual Conference Program Chair. Kelly's research includes investigating risk factors for suicide in late life, and she is the author of over 23 scientific publications.
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James R. Rogers, Ph.D. (Past President)
James R. Rogers earned a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from The University of Akron in 1993. He has since taught in the Department of Counseling at Youngstown State University, is currently an adjunct professor of behavioral sciences at The Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, and a professor in the Collaborative Program Counseling Psychology at The University of Akron. Dr. Rogers is a licensed psychologist in the state of Ohio and has specialized in the areas of suicide and disaster relief psychology.
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Michelle Linn-Gust, Ph.D.
Michelle Linn-Gust is an international author and speaker about suicide prevention and postvention issues. She is the author of Ginger's Gift: Hope and Healing through Dog Companionship. Her first book, based on the suicide of her younger sister Denise, Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling, inspired siblings around the world in their survival after a loved one's suicide. She is the former AAS Survivor Division Chair and former editor of AAS's Surviving Suicide. She earned her doctorate in family studies from the University of New Mexico
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David Lester, Ph.D.
David Lester has doctoral degrees from Cambridge University (UK) in social and political science and Brandeis University (USA) in psychology. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Pomona, New Jersey. He is a former President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. He has published extensively on suicide, murder and other issues in thanatology. His recent books include Mass Murder (2004), Katie's Diary: Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide (2004), Is there Life after Death? (2005), A multiple-self theory of personality (2009), and Preventing suicide: Why we don't and how we might(2010).
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Amy Boland, CPA (Treasurer)
Amy Boland is an audit partner at Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, CPAs. She has more than 12 years' experience in auditing and public accounting, having concentrated her skills in the specialized field of audits of nonprofit organizations, including associations, private voluntary organizations and other charitable institutions. She has performed audits on behalf of most federal agencies, most frequently for USAID grantees and with our international PVO team to assist clients with global activity in strengthening field office controls and establishing policies and procedures to ensure grant compliance. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting at the Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Boland is a member of the AICPA and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is active in the nonprofit community.
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David N. Miller, Ph.D. (Secretary)
David Miller is Associate Professor of School Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is a certified school psychologist with extensive experience working with suicidal youth in both public and alternative school settings, and I coordinated the suicide prevention program at a school for students with severe behavior disorders. David is senior author of the book Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Self-Injury at School (2010) and author of Child and Adolescent Suicidal Behavior: School-Based Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention (2011), and the author of 40 refereed journal articles and book chapters, many of them related to youth suicidal behavior. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of several professional journals, provide ad hoc reviews for Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, and guest-edited a special issue of the journal School Psychology Review devoted to school-based suicide prevention.
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Irving Gutin
Irving Gutin was head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Tyco International, Ltd, from 1979 to 2003. During his tenure Tyco grew from $200 million in annual sales, to a multinational, Fortune 100 Company, with sales of over $40 billion, employing over 250,000 people worldwide. Irving was Chairman of the Board of the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation, a member of the investment committee of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, and a member and Chairman of the Board of the Portsmouth Regional Hospital. He has served as a member of the board of a number of publicly traded and private companies. In 1995, after the loss of his son, by suicide, the Gutin family established the Jeffrey Gutin Fund at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. He and his wife Barbara also established the Irving and Barbara C. Gutin Charitable Foundation. The two funds have joined together as the Suicide Prevention Partnership, (SPP) which works to reduce suicide and suicidal behavior. The SPP designs and runs programs that address systemic issues in suicide prevention and funds a limited number of suicide prevention projects, including a current grant to AAS.
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Dr. Annalisa Jenkins, MBBS, MRCP
Dr. Jenkins graduated in 1987 with her medical degree from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. From 1987 to 1994, Dr. Jenkins served as Medical Officer in the British Royal Navy, achieving rank of Surgeon Lieutenant Commander. Since 1997, she has held several international positions for Bristol Myers Squibb (including Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Africa). In March 2006 Dr. Jenkins was appointed Vice President, Full Development for Bristol Myers Squibb, and is responsible for managing more than 1500 employees across 41 countries. Dr. Jenkins is a Founding Board Member of Inspire USA Foundation, Inc.
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Jill E. Nyhus
Jill earned a B.A. in elementary education with a French minor in 1995 from Wheaton College in Illinois. She graduated from George Washington University in 2000 with a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human DevelopmentÃ???¢Ã????Ã????Educational Technology Leadership. From 2002 to 2006, she worked for Cable in the Classroom in Washington, DC, moving from Assistant Director of Technology to Director of Web Strategy & Technology before leaving. She is currently the Director of New Media Research & Development at Live Elements, Inc. in Winchester, Virginia.
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Beryl Jones-Wooden, J.D.
Beryl Jones-Woodin specializes in copyright law, art law, and professional responsibility. In addition to teaching courses in those areas, she serves as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. She is on the board of directors of the Westchester Children's Museum. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Copyright Society, a member of the American Law Institute, and the Federal Bar Council. She has also chaired the Association of American Law SchoolsÃ???¢Ã????Ã???? Art Law Section and its Intellectual Property Section. She has long been active in New York City Bar on its committees for art law, communications and media law, and copyright law. Professor Jones-Woodin joined the faculty in 1984 after serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the Eastern District of New York, and law clerk to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Stephen Seldin
Stephen Seldin earned a J.D. from the Yale Law School and a BBA from the Baruch School of CCNY, He is admitted to the NY State Bar and the Federal Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is a real estate and corporate lawyer, and was formerly a partner in Dreyer & Traub, which represented major real estate figures such as Donald Trump and Peter Kalikow. He has been the principal lawyer on many complex transactions, including the swap of the land under Carlton House for 77 Park Avenue, for Harry B. Helmsley, the purchase of its headquarters building at 347 Madison Avenue, for Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the construction for 101 Park Avenue for Peter Kalikow, Negotiation of a software joint venture with Narita Electric. He was Co-Chairman of the Real Property Section of New York County Lawyers Association, a member of Real Property Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Legislation Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York.
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Julie Cerel, Ph.D. (Research Division Director)
Julie is Assistant Professor, College of Social Work, at the University of Kentucky. She has been a Licensed Psychologist since 2002 and an AAS member since 2003. She served as AAS Program Chair in 201, has been a QPR instructor since 2005 and is the Author of more than 20 academic publications on suicide and survivors. She is a Board member and former chair, Kentucky Suicide Prevention Group; and Editorial Board Member, Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior
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Philip Rutter, Ph.D. (Clinical Division Director)
Phil Rutter is Assistant Professor at Widener University, and a Counseling Psychologist. He served as AAS Conference Program Chair in 2010 and has been an AAS Member for 15 years. Phil completed his postdoctoral training with Philadelphia Child Guidance trainers, and works as a clinical researcher, clinical supervisor, and family therapist.
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Lesley Levin, LCSW (Crisis Centers Division Director)
Leslie is the President/CEO of 14 years at Behavioral Health Response (BHR), the 24/7 crisis system for the Eastern Region of Missouri. BHR is a part of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) and serves as one of the back-up centers for the Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline. Lesley has served as a surveyor for both CARF and AAS and has visited dozens of crisis centers across the country and in Australia. Lesley also sits on the Standards, Training and Practices subcommittee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and was appointed by the governor of Missouri to sit on his Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee. She has over 40 years experience as a social worker, spending most of it working in the field of mental health.
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Scott Poland, Ed.D. (Prevention Division Director)
Director of department of psychological services (1982-present) for Cypress-Fairbanks ISD a school district of 75,000 students in Houston, Texas. Under his leadership, the department has been named Most Outstanding Psychological Division by Texas Psychological Association four times, and has received the Excellence in School Psychological Services Award presented jointly by National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and American Psychological Association (APA). In addition, the department has an APA accredited professional psychology intern training program.
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Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy. D. (Survivors Division Director)
The survivor of her brother's suicide in 2004, Sally is a clinical psychologist and the Executive Director of the Carson J. Spencer Foundation. She's also served as project director for Regis University's Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant, board member of the Suicide Prevention Coalition of Colorado, on the Suicide Prevention Resource Center's steering committee, and as Chair of "Bridging the Divide: Suicide Awareness and Prevention Summit" in 2008 and 2009. She is a professional speaker with Campuspeak, and certified as a QPR Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Trainer.
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Ex-Officio
Alan (Lanny) Berman, Ph.D. (Executive Director)
Lanny Berman has served as Executive Director of AAS since 1995. Prior to that, he was Director of the National Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide at the Washington School of Psychiatry (1991-1995) and a tenured full-professor of Psychology at American University (1969-1991). Lanny has published 7 books, the latest being the 2nd edition of Adolescent Suicide: Assessment and Intervention, Medical Conditions Associated with Suicide Risk, and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in Suicidology and suicide prevention. He is the recipient of both AAS's Shneidman and Dublin Awards for outstanding contributions to Suicidology and a past-president of AAS. Board certified as an ABPP diplomat in clinical psychology, he is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the International Academy of Suicide Research. He holds a BA degree from the Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America.
