Committee Chairs

COL (Ret) Bruce Crow, PsyD, MPH, is Associate Director for Program Evaluation, Department of Veterans Affairs Suicide Prevention Program. Prior to this position he completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in military suicide at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Crow served with the Army for 30 years until retiring from active duty in 2012. He continued with the Army for five years as a civilian psychologist during which time he led development of the largest tele-behavioral health operation in the DoD. While on active duty, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology and held several senior leadership positions including eight years and longest serving Clinical Psychology Consultant to the Army Surgeon General. In addition to serving as Division 19 Member-at-Large, he serves as Chair, Public Health Committee of the American Association of Suicidology. Dr. Crow was honored to receive the John C. Flanagan Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Military Psychology in 2018. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit (2 awards), Meritorious Service Medal (8 awards), Army Commendation Medal (4 awards), NATO Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, and the Expert Field Medical Badge

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Dr. Brim is currently serving as the Division 19 APA Convention Chair with the task to coordinate the Div. 19 programming at the APA convention and, particularly, continuing education sessions scheduled by Div. 19. His research interests include evidence-based posts traumatic stress disorder treatment, cognitive-behavioral therapy for suicide prevention, and brief intervention therapy for insomnia in the military context. For the submission of continuing education programs to Div. 19 CEC and consultation regarding the process established by this division to submit such programs for review, please contact Dr. Brim at william.brim.ctr@usuhs.edu.

Dr. Giangrande is an active-duty psychologist in the United States Navy.  She graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine with a PsyD in Clinical Psychology in 2019.  She completed her intern year at Naval Medical Center San Diego from 2018-2020.  She then transferred to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia where she worked closely with the Submarine community and Marine Corps Security Force Battalion.  She is currently stationed at Submarine Readiness Squadron-32 in Groton, CT where she is the sole operational submarine psychologist serving over 2,000 service members across 18 submarines.  Professionally, she is actively engaged in the Department of Defense Bureau of Medicine (BUMED) and APA initiatives and committees.  She is involved with the BUMED Female Force Readiness Advisory Board and the BUMED Clinical Psychology Burnout Working Group.  She is also the Early Career Psychologist Committee Chair for Division 19 of APA.  Dr. Giangrande is an esteemed subject matter expert and nationally published author.  Her meta-analytic research on COVID-19 and its impact on mental health was published in the special edition of the Military Psychologist in May2020.  Her current research includes perinatal mental health in female service members, and medical readiness initiatives to improve female submariners access to women’s health services at operational waterfronts.

Carrie H. Kennedy, Ph.D., ABPP serves as Fellows Committee Chair for Division 19. A neuropsychologist with specialization in military psychology and aeromedical psychology, she is an active duty Captain in the U.S. Navy with deployments to both Cuba and Afghanistan. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia and a Fellow of both APA and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. From 2017-2022 she served as APA Council Representative for Division 19. Awards include the APA Division 19 Charles S. Gersoni Award, Robert S. Nichols Award, and the Distinguished Mentor Award, and she is a two time Navy Psychologist of the Year winner. She serves on the editorial board of Psychological Services and is board certified in both Clinical and Police and Public Safety Psychology.

Dr. Hamilton is a native of New Mexico.  He earned a Bachelor of Science from Wilmington University, a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Counseling Psychology from the University of Northern Colorado. He was commissioned through the Health Professions Scholarship Program and subsequently through Officer Development School in July 2019 and is licensed by the state of Virginia. He is currently serving as a military psychologist in the United States Navy. Dr. Hamilton has a strong passion for the history and culture of military psychology. He is the current History Chair for the American Psychological Association Society for Military Psychology (DIV19) where he produces multiple yearly articles focused on the history of military psychology. 

Ioanna K. Lekea holds a BA (Hons) in Classics from the University of Athens, a MSc (with distinction) in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and a Ph.D. (with distinction) in Military Ethics awarded jointly by the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). She currently works as an Assistant Professor with the Hellenic Air Force Academy and she is the Director of the War Games Lab.

Dr Lekea has has been involved, as a principal investigator or a main researcher, in several research projects (EU and Greek ones) with a high level of success and she has also received numerous fellowship grants.