National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc.

an educational foundation and advocacy organization serving mental health consumers and professionals

William A. MacGillivray, PhD   President

Dr. MacGillivray was graduated from the Clinical Training Program of the University of Tennessee and is in private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee.

His involvement with the National Coalition began with the formation of the East Tennessee Coalition five years ago.  He served as newsletter editor for this group and organized several symposia locally to address the threats of managed care to psychotherapy.  He has been involved with the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association for many years, both at the local and division level.  Currently he is the Past-president of the Section of Local Chapters of the Division, as well as editor of Psychologist/Psychoanalyst Newsletter.

Dr. MacGillivray was elected to the presidency of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc in March on 2006.

Karen Shore, Ph.D. - Founder and Past President

Dr. Shore is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice, is Past-President and co-founder of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, headquartered in Commack, LI, New York. She is a leading voice in speaking for consumer empowerment, ethical healthcare and alternatives to Managed Care.

Dr. Shore has written extensively on managed care including a chapter for a book on ethics, values, and morality in managed care, which was published by the American Psychological Association in 1998. Dr. Shore is regularly quoted in such publications as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Newsweek, and Newsday. She has also appeared in programs such as "State of Mind" and "60 Minutes."

In addition to her work with the National Coalition, Dr. Shore also works on managed care issues through committees within the American Psychological Association and the New York State Psychological Association. In 1997, for her work in exposing, regulating, and replacing managed care, she received the Distinguished Psychologist Award from Suffolk County Psychological Association and she was named "1997 Distinguished Psychologist of the Year" by the American Psychological Association's Division of Independent Practice. She received the Beacon Award for Advocacy from the New York State Psychological Association in Oct 1999 and was voted an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association in May, 2000 for her advocacy on behalf of psychoanalytic treatment.

Michaele P.  Dunlap, PsyD - Vice President

Dr. Dunlap is a psychologist in private group practice in Portland, Oregon. She began serving on the Coalition Board in November, 1999. She has been active in opposition to managed care since she entered professional practice in 1985. She has been a leader in development of the American Mental Health Alliance chapter in Oregon since 1995, and is  an AMHA-Oregon Past-President.  She serves as Director for National Membership Development of AMHA-USA. During the early 1990's she served on the Oregon Psychological Association's Board as Chair of OPA's Peer Support Program, an experience which high lighted the damage caused by managed care to professional functioning and relationships.

Dr. Dunlap serves on the Coalition Board to eliminate the harm managed care causes to those who seek professional services, and to eliminate the impact of managed care on professionals' clinical work, life satisfaction and self value.

To learn more about Dr. Dunlap, click here.

Rosalyn Gilbert, ACSW, BCD - Treasurer

Rosalyn Gilbert has been an advocate for mental health care reform, having worked with several multi-disciplinary grassroots organizations since the Clinton Health Care Initiative in 1994-1995. She is legislative chair and current co-chair of The Alliance for Universal Access to Psychotherapy, an umbrella organization of representatives from social work, psychology, and psychiatry professional organizations, training institutes, and mental health clinics in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state area. She is a member of Rescue Health Care - New York, and is on the Board of The American Mental Health Alliance. She joined the Board of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals in 2000.

She is a graduate of Columbia University Social of Social Work and is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work. She has been a clinical social worker for the past 23 years, working at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City in community psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, and on inpatient and outpatient chemical dependency units. She received her psychoanalytic training at The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York City and is on the Board and the Program Committee of The Society of The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy. Currently, she has a private practice in New York City and is the Coordinator of Chemical Dependency Services at The Actors' Fund of America, a national social service organization for entertainment professionals.

David G. Byrom, Ph.D.  - Past - President

Dr. Byrom is a Clinical Psychologist who has been practicing for over 35 years in both private/community practice and public sector settings. He is currently the Supervising Psychologist for the Suffolk County (NY) Division of Community Mental Hygiene Services (Mental Health and Alcohol & Drug Abuse Services), and is the Co-Director of the Family Therapy Institute of Suffolk.

For the National Coalition, he serves on the U2K (Universal Health Care Campaign) Steering Committee, as Co-Chair of the Administration & Finance Committee, and was Co-Editor (with Dr. Dowds) of the Coalition Report for 4 years. He is also currently a Board Member of the Suffolk County Psychological Association, serving on the Public Education Committee, and on the NY State Psychological Association Health Care Committee.

Dr. Byrom has a career-long involvement as an activist, particularly in community mental health, participating in the 1960's inception of Head Start and Community Action Program. His primary focus is preserving and revitalizing community mental health services and the ethical practice of high quality psychotherapy/mental health services (prevention and treatment) by community and public sector professionals, with attaining full access to health care for everyone in the U.S. with the truly equal inclusion of quality mental health care for all.

Keith Cook, EdD

Keith Cook, Ed.D., is a licensed psychologist who has been providing counseling, psychotherapy, consultation and training in a variety of settings for over 35 years.  He earned his Doctor of Education degree in the field of Counseling Psychology from the University of Maine and subsequently held staff appointments at university counseling centers at the State University of New York at Albany and at the University of Maine.  

In 1971, he completed one of the first yearlong Family Therapy Training Institutes designed in the Virginia Satir model at Capitol District Psychiatric Center, an affiliate of Albany (NY) Medical Center.

He has continued to have an active private practice in Waterville, ME for over 25 years providing counseling and psychotherapy for individuals, couples and families from all walks of life.  In 1992 he was among the first group of mental health professionals in Maine to be trained in EMDR. A recent addition to his services is EMDR for Leadership and Workplace Performance Enhancement.

He also served as a psychologist in a community mental health center where he helped establish the first model for school psychological consultation services in Central Maine.  His school consultation services spanned over a dozen years in six school systems, while his teacher training workshops have covered more than 35 years and presently continue

Additionally, Keith provides process consultation and a variety of custom designed workshops and seminars for leaders, executives, managers and employees in a broad range of workplaces -- retail, manufacturing, services, professional practices, agencies, government and communities.  Topics include improving communication and work relationships, conflict resolution, visioning & strategic planning, team building, stress management and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)

He recently completed an enlightening two year sabbatical as a superintendent of schools in a rural Maine school system of eight communities. This proved to be a rich opportunity to implement and verify many of his principles and practices for encouraging employees to bring the best of themselves to their work.  This experience has deepened his commitment and interest in using his understanding, experience and behavioral sciences knowledge to assist other employers in accomplishing the same.

Christine Glenn, PhD  

A graduate of Tufts, Washington University, St. Louis, and Oregon Graduate School of Professional Psychology, Pacific University, Dr. Glen is a neuropsychologist who now works clinically with a focus on Depth Psychology.  She is affiliated with the American Mental Health Alliance - Oregon as President and is on the Board of Directors and with the Mentor Research Institute as a member of the, Board of Directors

To learn more about Dr. Glenn, click here.

Peter Gumpert, PhD  CGP

Dr. Gumpert has been a psychologist since 1967. He works in the Boston area with late adolescents and adults in individual, couple, and group psychotherapy, and is a faculty member, senior clinical supervisor, and Board member at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. He also does a significant amount of work as a consultant to business, governmental, and other organizations.  He became active rather early in the struggle to replace managed care, and was one of the founders of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, the Consortium for Psychotherapy in Massachusetts, and the American Mental Health Alliance. He is convinced that the managed care system in our country is not repairable, because its fundamental structure and reason for being are inimical to providing good health care for the population. Our social experiment in managed health care has been a failure, and it must (and will) be entirely replaced. His concern is that this unfortunate experiment has already done major damage to the health care infrastructure in the US, and that we must work to keep the essential elements of health care standing while a new system is being created and implemented. Thus his current interest is in encouraging people to find and invent alternative models, as well as non-destructive ways of transitioning to them.

Louis Pansulla MSW, CSW

Louis Pansulla Jr., LCSW, is a Clinical Social Worker and a psychoanalyst, with many years of working in community-based and organizations and clinical settings. Trained at NYU's Ehrenkrantz School of Social Work, he later received his four-year Psychoanalytic Training at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) in NYC.

He has worked most recently as a consultant at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in NYC, a medical and mental health clinic serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender communities. He also worked as the Associate Clinical Director at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which houses the Harvey Milk High School, serving LGBT teens.

Louis' commitment to advocacy, coalition-building, and community-organizing is career-long. As a Founding Member of TRANS NYC, a consortium of academicians, clinicians and researchers in NYC, he has been instrumental in advocating for transgender-sensitive and ethical care in medical and mental health settings, as well as trans-inclusive and ethical academic research. He is a Founding Member of a new national Foundation/endowment created to help defray the high costs of medical procedures, including hormone therapies, sexual reassignment surgeries, psychotherapy, job retraining and placement for lower-income transgender individuals. He is also author of an array of both clinical and public health service articles and publications on this subject, having presented internationally and nationally at clinical conferences on 'Transgenderism', and "Gender Identity'. He continues to commit himself to the strong advocacy of the 'depathologizing' of gender variant individuals.

Mr. Pansulla is also a Board Member of the Society for the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (SICP) in NYC, serving as its Treasurer for many years, doing fund-raising, advocacy, and programming. He currently has a private practice where he sees individuals, couples, and facilitates groups. He also works as consultant to major corporations and non-profits around issues related to sexual and gender identity.

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Kathie Kramer Rudy, PsyD

Dr. Rudy is a clinical psychologist practicing on Long Island. She has a post-doctoral diploma in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and is a fellow of the American College of Advance Practice Psychologists. She is a founding member of the Executive Board of Governors of The Ferkauf Graduate School of Professional Psychology of Yeshiva University where she is on the Academic Affairs Committee as well as acting as a supervisor of psychotherapy.   Dr. Rudy was a member of the Board of Directors of the United Hebrew Geriatric Center in New Rochelle, NY, a non-sectarian campus meeting the needs of the whole spectrum of seniors, from senior housing to intensive nursing home care.
        A student of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Dr. Rudy is an active member of both Après-Coup (http://www.apres-coup.org) and NOMOS and previously chaired a panel at the Conference: Art. Psychoanalysis and Science: Unsolved Riddles.  Dr. Rudy has previously taught psychology at the State University of New York and is a trained paralegal.
       A long-time opponent of managed care, she is webmaster of both this web site and the web site for Rescue Health Care Day (http://www.rescuehealthcareday.com). Dr. Rudy is proud to be a member of no managed care panels. She became a member of the Coalition Board in June of 2000.

To learn more about Dr. Rudy please click here.

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