Leadership

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William Brim, Psy.D., is the executive director of the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He joined CDP in 2007, initially as a deployment behavioral health psychologist at Malcolm Grow Medical Center and served as deputy director until 2017. Prior to joining CDP, Dr. Brim served on active duty as a psychologist in the United States Air Force from 1997 to 2007. Dr. Brim received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee and his master’s and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a graduate of the Wilford Hall Medical Center Psychology Residency Program and the Wilford Hall Clinical Health Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program. Dr. Brim is a recognized and post-doctoral fellowship trained behavioral sleep medicine specialist. Clinically he focuses on the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder, insomnia and nightmares. Dr. Brim has over 100 publications and presentations on a range of topics including military culture, insomnia and insomnia and nightmare treatments and trauma. He is frequently called on to consult in courts martial and discharge boards as a forensic psychology expert with a specific focus on trauma and memory. 

Dr. Ryan R. Landoll is the Assistant Dean for Preclinical Sciences in the Office for Student Affairs and an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Medical and Clinical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Landoll earned his B.S. in Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and subsequently received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. Dr. Landoll completed his Internship in Clinical Psychology at the Malcolm Grow Medical Clinic at Joint Base Andrews, MD. He is dual Board Certified in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. He has deployed as a Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) Psychologist at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Freedom’s Sentinel. Dr. Landoll’s research interest span several areas in child, pediatric, and health psychology. He has over 70 publications and presentations on these topics, as well as areas including school mental health and supervision of clinical assessment. His research broadly focuses on two main topic areas: primary care behavioral health, and adolescent peer relationships (i.e., romantic relationships, friendships, and peer victimization, including cyber victimization) and internalizing disorders (i.e., social anxiety, depression). Dr. Landoll currently heads the Military and Sexual/Reproductive Health (MARSH) Research Program at the Uniformed Services University and is the co-director of the pSyTORM (pSychological Training, Operations, and Research in the Military; pronounced ‘storm’) Lab.

​Dr. Angela E. Legner is a staff psychologist with the Spinal Cord Injury, Disorder, and Rehabilitation Department at the Syracuse VA Medical Center in Syracuse, NY. Prior to joining the SCI team in Syracuse, Dr. Legner completed an APA accredited fellowship in Primary Care Psychology from the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland, OH. She completed her clinical internship in health psychology at Aurora Medical Center in Milwaukee, WI, and subsequently completed her Psy.D. at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Washington D.C. She served 12 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve and was deployed aboard the USNS Comfort as part of a humanitarian mission to Jamaica, Haiti, South and Central America in 2011. Dr. Legner has been active with Division 19 since she was a graduate student, serving on the Student Affairs Committee as a Student Representative for 3 years. As an Early Career
Psychologist, Dr. Legner also served as the Division’s Program Chair in 2018.

Tim Hoyt, Ph.D. represents Division 19 on the APA Council of Representatives (2023-2025). He served on active duty as a psychologist in the U.S. Army, including deploying to Afghanistan as the lead of a forward mental health team. He is currently the Deputy Director for Force Resiliency in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness. He is an APA Fellow, and the recipient of the Arthur W. Melton Early Achievement Award (Division 19) and the Peter J. N. Linnerooth National Service Award (Division 18). He is the editor of the Division 19 Newsletter The Military Psychologist and is an associate editor for the journal Military Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of New Mexico, and is a Superior Graduate of the U.S. Army War College.

Dr. Mark Staal is a retired Colonel having served as the Air Force’s senior operational psychologist. Mark’s PhD in Clinical Psychology, he is a board-certified executive coach, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Human Factors engineering at NASA. Mark spent most of his career serving within the Special Operations community to include positions as a Command Psychologist at the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and as the Command Psychologist at the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).

Dr. Staal is a recognized leader in his field having published over 50 journal articles, book chapters, and books in the areas of operational psychology, ethics, resiliency, and human decision making. Mark serves as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences for movies and television and he previously served as a Division President for the American Psychological Association. He is the owner of OSS Consulting, LLC, an independent consulting company providing personnel suitability, talent management, and executive coaching services.

Dr. Ashley (Shenberger) Markovic is a Board Certified Licensed Clinical Psychologist practicing in Chicago and Central Illinois. She completed her doctoral degree from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 2013. From 2012-2023, she served in the United States Navy as Clinical Psychologist and now serves a civilian population within the Veterans Affairs system. She is the current Convention Chair for Division 19. She is also a Division 19 Member at Large and the Executive Director of the Society Leadership Program. She is currently serving as Midwest Director and mentorship coordinator for the American Board of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology.

MAJ Jennifer Barry is a US Army clinical psychologist and Behavioral Health Officer (BHO) for the 2nd Light Brigade Combat Team (Prototype), 25th Infantry Division. MAJ Barry is a 2018 graduate of the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University (Northern Virginia). She was a 2017 recipient of the Army’s Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP). MAJ Barry completed her internship and residency training at Womack Army Medical Center (Fort Bragg, North Carolina). She previously served as a BHO for 25th Sustainment Brigade (Schofield Barracks, Hawaii). During her doctoral studies, MAJ Barry served the Society for Military Psychology on the Student Affairs Committee from 2013-2016, co-managing the committee’s expansion from one to three chairpersons and overseeing the development and implementation of the new Division 19 Student Chapter Network. In 2015, she was honored to participate as the student member of the Division 19 Hoffman (Report) Task Force. MAJ Barry previously served on the Div19 Women & Minorities in the Military Committee (2016-2019), overseeing its transition from an ad hoc to a standing committee and its rebranding to the Diversity in the Military Committee. During this time she also served as a mentor for Div19 students interested in HPSP and commissioning into the Army. MAJ Barry was elected a Member-at-Large in 2023 and has served proudly under three Division 19 presidents. In her spare time, she is a real estate investor, Latin dancer, and a new mom. 

I am a  psychologist currently serving as Chief for the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control advancing policy development, program development, and program evaluation for initiatives in operational stress control, psychological resilience, embedded mental health, and disaster mental health for Navy Medicine.  Notable activities include collaborating with Navy operational and mental health leaders to formalize and standardize an embedded mental health model, develop and implement training for operational stress control and psychological readiness, and create innovative programs in disaster mental health.  Previously, I served as the Associate Director for Mental Health at a large medical treatment facility leading multidisciplinary staff assigned across an inpatient psychiatric service, outpatient mental health services, and a substance abuse rehabilitation unit serving service members across the INDOPACOM region.  In past assignments, I worked in various operational locations, including as a carrier psychologist deployed to the Fifth Fleet, OSCAR Psychologist with a Marine Corps Infantry Regiment, and an individual augmentee to the NATO Role III hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  These varied experiences have enabled me to have a diverse and inclusive perspective and approach in my leadership activities and development of initiatives and programs.

Elizabeth Finer, MA is currently a fourth-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. She works under the supervision of Mitchell Schare, PhD, ABPP, where she is currently studying to specialize in the treatment of Anxiety Disorders, Specific Phobias, and Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders. She has received the Health Professions Scholarship Program through the VA and has also taken part of the Society Leadership Program of Division 19. Previously, she worked in the Boston VA Healthcare System, where she studied behavioral interventions for self-management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Clinically, she is interested in working with diverse and marginalized populations who have experienced traumatic events, particularly with veterans. Her research also focuses on treatment-related barriers and integration of multimodal interventions for trauma, particularly among veterans.