My service to the field has included serving on an NIH grant review panel, longstanding service on various editorial boards of the premier journals in my field, serving as an ad hoc reviewer of manuscripts and grants, and reviewing many faculty for tenure and promotion to Associate and Full Professor. I also have served on several American Psychological Association and Behavior Genetics Association committees evaluating faculty for career achievement awards and graduate student dissertation awards. These activities have included:
2017-2020 Evaluator of candidates for APA Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award
2015 Committee Member, APA Early Distinguished contribution to Psychopathology research
2001 – present Associate Editor, Behavior Genetics
2018 – present; 2004 – 2012 Editorial Board, Development & Psychopathology
2016 – 2021 Editorial Board, Clinical Psychological Science
2011 – 2021 Editorial Board, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2001 – 2009 Editorial Board, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology;
2009 Opponent (External Examiner), dissertation defense, Karolinska Instituet, Stockholm
2001 – present Ad Hoc Reviewer, MRC and Wellcome Trust grants (UK)
1999 – 2002 Reviewer, NIH SNEM-2 Committee
1990-1993 Statistical consultant to the DSM-IV Disruptive Behavior Disorders Field Trials
I have served as a reviewer for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, Full Professor, or Chaired Professor for faculty at University of Miami, Boston University, MIT, University of Chicago, Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, Brown University Medical School, Washington University School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of Colorado-Denver, University of Minnesota, Stony Brook University, and at Emory (Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and Dept. of Human Genetics).
Among my professional service activities, I am most honored by having served as President-Elect, President, and Past-President of the Behavior Genetics Association from June 2009 to July 2012, during which I selected the recipient of the Theodosius Dobzhansky Lifetime Achievement Award. I also previously served as an Executive Committee member-at-large of the Behavior Genetics Association from 1998-2000, and as a member of the Task force on social, legal, and research implications of behavioral genetics for the American Society of Human Genetics in 1995-96.
My service to Emory has included important activities at the University, College, and Department levels. Most notably, I was Co-Director of the Emory Social & Behavioral Sciences Research Center from August of 2009 to August of 2012, having previously served on its Board of Directors from September 2007 to August of 2009. In this capacity, I planned, organized and implemented year-long series of 1- and 2-day workshops on a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students; set up and oversaw support for undergraduate statistics and methods courses across several departments in the college that was provided by advanced graduate students with statistical expertise; and helped bring in outside speakers in various research domains, among other activities. I also headed up a Task Force on Quantitative Literacy in the college from August 2010 to August of 2011. The Center and Task Force sparked discussion of the future of quantitative and qualitative research methods at Emory and helped set the stage for the formation of the Institute for Quantitative Theory and Methods.
Subsequently, I was a member of the QEP Classroom Committee from September 2013 to 2019, and as part of this was a Presenter at Faculty Workshops on Evidence-Focused First-Year Seminars in May of 2015 and 2016. I’ve also served on the Emory University Governance Committee, Student Conduct Council, and as a grant reviewer for the University Research Committee.
I’ve been a member of several search committees during my tenure at Emory, mostly within the Department of Psychology but also in the Department of Educational Studies and Department of Human Genetics. Most significantly, I headed the Search Committee for a Faculty position in Quantitative Methods in Psychology during the 2015-2016 academic year (after serving on that committee the previous year that ended in an unsuccessful search). This search is most notable for being the first open search in our department to result in two diversity faculty hires (Yunxiao Chen and Rohan Palmer). In the two years following this search I was a member and then head of a department Committee on Quantitative Training. During my time at Emory I have also headed the department’s colloquium committee and Computer / IT and Webpage Committee.
Currently I am serving as faculty advisor to the Alliance for Disability and Accessibility Promotion and Training (ADAPT), an organization that supports graduate student and postdoctoral fellow trainees. I also serve as Co-Chair of the Emory Employee Resource Group on Disability. My hope and intent in serving in these capacities is to give some broader meaning and wider impact to the experiences I have had as a faculty member with disabilities and to help other faculty, staff, and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to navigate the various challenges and discriminations they often encounter as a function of their disabilities.