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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.

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. Marcus VanSickle presently serves as an active Navy Psychologist and is currently completing an APA-Accredited Postdoctoral Fellowship in Forensic Psychology with the Center for Forensic Behavioral Sciences at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.  He earned his Ph.D. at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and Postdoctoral MS in Clinical Psychopharmacology through Fairleigh Dickinson University.  Dr. VanSickle remains actively engaged in military suicide prevention research, is licensed as both a clinical and medical (prescribing) psychologist, and is board-certified in behavioral and cognitive psychology. Dr. VanSickle entered military service through enlisting in the Marines in 2001 and transferred to Navy Psychology in 2011.  Dr. VanSickle has served in a combination of line, hospital, deployed, and embedded mental health settings.  Awards include the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, Surface Warfare (SWMDO) qualification and selection as the Navy Junior Psychologist of the Year (2018).

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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.

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