Research Bio
Susan McDaniel, PHD, a family psychologist on our faculty, is the Dr Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families & Health in the Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry. She received a PhD in 1979 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in clinical psychology, did her internship at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and was a fellow in family therapy at the Texas Research Institute for Mental Services in Houston.
She enjoys the many philosophical, theoretical, and clinical commonalities between family therapy and family medicine and their integration into the practice of biopsychosocial medicine. Her special interests are in the family in family medicine and collaboration between mental health specialists and primary care practitioners.
Publications include books entitled Systems Consultation with Lyman Wynne and Timothy Weber, Family-Oriented Primary Care: A Manual for Medical Providers (1990 and 2003) with Tom Campbell, Jeri Hepworth, and Alan Lorenz; Counseling Families with Chronic Illness (1995), Integrating Family Therapy: Handbook of Family Psychology and Systems Theory (1995) with Richard Mikesell and Don-David Lusterman, The Shared Experience of Illness (1997) with Jeri Hepworth and Bill Doherty, A Casebook for Integrating Family Therapy (2002) with Don-David Lusterman and Carol Philpot, Primary Care Psychology (2004) with Robert Frank, James Bray, and Margaret Heldring, Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genetics (2006) with Suzanne Miller, John Rolland, and Suzanne Feetham, and Family Therapy (2009) with Bill Doherty.
| The Donald Bloch MD Award for Outstanding Contributions to Collaborative Care | Collaborative Family Healthcare Association | San Diego |
2009 |
| Cummings PSYCHE Prize - $50,000 | American Psychological Foundation | San Francisco CA |
2007 |
| Fellowship for Associate Chairs to Assocation of Departments of Family Medicine |
2005 - 2007 |
| Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching | Association of Medical School Psychologists |
2004 |
| Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy | American Family Therapy Academy |
2000 - 2000 |
| Distinguished Practitioner in Psychology | National Academies of Practice |
1999 |
| Family Psychologist of the Year | American Psychological Association Division of Family Psychology |
1995 |
| Who's Who of American Women |
1991 |
| Outstanding Young Women of America |
1985 |
| Distinguished Leadership on behalf of Women in Psychology | The Committee on Women in Psychology of the American Psychologic | American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu Hawa |
2013 |
| Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Recognition Award | Society of Teachers of Family Medicine | New Orleans LA |
2011 |
| Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award | Presented at Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia |
2011 |
| Outstanding Psychologist of the Year Award | Genesee Valley Psychological Association | Rochester NY |
2009 |
| Dr. Laurie Sands DIstinguished Professor of Families & Health |
2009 - Present |
| Ittleson Consultant to the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry |
2006 - 2007 |
| Initiation of the Susan H. McDaniel Award for Excellence in Teaching | Department of Psychiatry, Family Programs Colleagues |
2002 |
| Postdoctoral Academic Mentoring Award | University of Rochester |
1998 |
| National Patient Care Award for Innovation in Family Medicine Education - w/Thomas Campbell | Society of Teachers of Family Medicine |
1988 |
| Michael Wallach Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate in Psychology | U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
1979 |
| National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship |
1975 - 1977 |
| National Institute of Mental Health Traineeship |
1974 - 1975 |
| First Place - Student Research Award--Undergraduate Level | North Carolina Psychological Association |
1973 |
2013 May
McDaniel SH, Morse DS, Reis S, Edwardsen EA, Gurnsey MG, Taupin A, Griggs JJ, and Shields CG. "Physicians criticizing physicians to patients, Journal of General Internal Medicine." Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2013; 28(11): 1405-9. |
2013
Edwardsen, EE; Reis, S; Morse, DS; Gurnsey, MG; Taupin, A; Shields CG; Griggs, J; McDaniel, SH. "Physician dialogues with advanced cancer patients: Mostly patient-friendly but often physician-directed." International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine. 2013; . |
2013
Edwardsen EE, Reis S, Morse DS, Gurnsey MG, Taupin A, Shields CG, Griggs J & McDaniel SH. "Physician dialogues with advanced cancer patients: Mostly patient-friendly but often physician-directed,". International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine. 2013; . |
2012
Jacobs B. "Here's how we're seeing it." An interview with Susan H. McDaniel PhD, Jeri Hepworth PhD, and William J Doherty PhD,". J of Contemporary Family Therapy. 2012; 34(2): 147-155. |
2012
McDaniel, S.H.; Doherty, W.J.; Hepworth, J. "Familientherapie in der Medizin und die therapeutische Personlichkeit". Familiendynamik. 2012; : 92-107. |
