Mid-Career Boot Camp

Details for the 2025 APAHC Mid-Career Boot Camp

Register Here by March 15! www.ahcpsychologists.org/2025mcbcapp

Planning Team:

Marissa Feldman - Mfeldm25@jhmi.edu

Lynne Havsy - lynne.havsy@sluhn.org

Leila Islam - Leila.Islam@vcuhealth.org

Michelle Jesse - Michelle.jesse@wellstar.org

Boot Camp Topics:

Leadership Roles in academic health settings: Developing programs and building and elevating psychology

Jennifer Katzenstein, PhD and colleagues

Coaching, Mentoring, and Sponsorship:  Unique Roles for Professional Development

Wendy Ward, PhD

Navigating moral dilemmas within academic health centers: Responsive & preventive ethics approaches

Lori Bruce, DPhil

Moving from Burnout to Well-Being to Flourishing: Individual and Institutional Responsibilities

Lynne Havsy Unikel, PhD

Plus, peer to peer coaching

Speaker bios:

Wendy L. Ward, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Professor with tenure at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine.  She is also an APA Fellow with 30 years of professional experience.   Dr. Ward serves in two institution-level positions (across 13 campuses and five colleges and the Graduate School at UAMS) as the Associate Provost for Faculty and Director of Interprofessional Faculty Development.  Her career began in collaborative, team-based care initially with obese youth, leading to her overseeing a program integrating psychology services into 38 subspecialty clinics at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.  She later developed and/or supported a variety of faculty affairs/development programs at the departmental, college, and now institutional level including recruitment, onboarding, faculty development, mentoring, promotion, professional wellness, leadership development, retirement transitioning, and emeriti engagement.  Her research interests are in the following areas:  faculty development, faculty affairs, professional wellness, integrated behavioral health, executive coaching, interprofessional education, pediatric obesity, and pediatric sleep disorders.

Lori Bruce, Doctorate in Bioethics, MA, HEC-C is the Associate Director at Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Key Researcher at Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics and Society, Chair of the Community Bioethics Forum at Yale School of Medicine, and Affiliated Faculty at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. She is a certified hospital ethics consultant through the American Society of Bioethics & Humanities. Dr. Bruce is the co-director of Connecticut's Ethics Chairpersons Meeting Group comprised solely of leaders of hospital ethics committees across the state. She has served on pediatric and adult ethics committees at Harvard and Yale for over 15 years, including having co-directed the Adult Ethics Committee at Yale-New Haven Hospital for three years. She is a Contributing Editor for the Hastings Center Report and the Associate Editor for Disability, Inclusion, & Technology for the Journal of Human-Technology Relations. Her work includes ethics of psychedelics as well as the ethical dimensions of bodily autonomy in clinical practice, law, and popular culture. Her work is often centered in amplifying the voices and values of community members in health policy including work on consent, infant abandonment, and confidential birth. Her courses in ethical policymaking are informed by her legislative successes at the state and federal levels, and she directs Yale’s Summer Institute in Bioethics. Her academic and policy work has been covered by media outlets including NBC Nightly News, the New York Times, CNN, Time magazine, and the Boston Globe. Her doctorate in bioethics is from Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago. She also has an MS in Bioimaging from Boston University School of Medicine and a Bachelor of Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Lynne H. Havsy, PhD, is a licensed psychologist and a certified school psychologist. She is the Assistant Director of Behavioral Health and Residency Development – Family Medicine Anderson Campus at St. Luke’s University Health Network. She supports well-being and flourishing and community outreach. She holds certificates in executive function coaching and professionalism. Previous roles include enhancing well-being for over 40 ACGME accredited programs. Her research and interests focus on medical education, promoting well-being and resilience for health-care professionals, professionalism, and integrated primary care. 

Jennifer M. Katzenstein, PhD, ABPP-CN, is a board-certified pediatric neuropsychologist, Co-Director of Center for Behavioral Health, Director of Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Social Work at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was inducted into the Miller Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence in 2023 and she is the 2020 winner of the Service and Professionalism Award at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and a national and international speaker on topics ranging from mental health of children to physician wellbeing, speaking most recently in Dubai and Latin America. Her passions include building behavioral health services for youth and their families, as well as ensuring the wellbeing of the workforce, with a specific focus on workplace violence.