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2002 APF Timothy Jeffrey Memorial Award
Allan Selected as Outstanding Clinical Health Psychologist
Robert Allan, PhD, was selected recently as the recipient of the second annual APF Timothy Jeffrey Memorial Award by an awards committee of American Psychological Association Division 38 (Health Psychology). Instituted in 2000, the award recognizes an outstanding commitment to clinical health psychology by a full-time provider of direct clinical services. The Foundation and division cosponsor the award, which memorializes the career and contributions of Timothy Jeffrey, PhD, a former president of Division 19 (Military Psychology) and director of the clinical psychology department at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. His wife, Louise K. Jeffrey, PhD, established the fund with the Foundation to support a $2,000 annual award.
Dr. Allan is currently clinical assistant professor of psychology in medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, co-founder and director of the Coronary Risk Reduction Program, and professional associate at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. In addition, he acts as director of psychological services at the New York Hospital of Queens Cardiac Health Center. Dr. Allan’s practice specialty is the psychological treatment of cardiac patients and their families. He has contributed numerous book chapters and journal articles in the field and co-edited (with cardiologist Stephen Scheidt, MD) the book Heart & Mind: the Practice of Cardiac Psychology,” published by APA in 1996.
Dr. Allan earned his bachelor’s degree from Queens College of the City University of New York, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University. Following graduation, his first job included playing keyboards in a band at the famed Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of New York. He subsequently attended the Juilliard School, where he studied music. Before returning to work in the field of psychology, he spent 10 years performing popular music.
Allan established the first stress reduction support group program for cardiac patients in the New York metropolitan area in 1982, at the Nassau County chapter of the American Heart Association. He currently treats individual patients and leads stress reduction support groups at New York Presbyterian Hospital and its affiliated Cardiac Health Centers in Manhattan and Queens. Allan was site coordinator for the Determinants of Time of Myocardial Infarction study and is currently consultant to the Triggers of Ventricular Arrhythmia study at the Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Robert Allan, PhD, was selected recently as the recipient of the second annual APF Timothy Jeffrey Memorial Award by an awards committee of American Psychological Association Division 38 (Health Psychology). Instituted in 2000, the award recognizes an outstanding commitment to clinical health psychology by a full-time provider of direct clinical services. The Foundation and division cosponsor the award, which memorializes the career and contributions of Timothy Jeffrey, PhD, a former president of Division 19 (Military Psychology) and director of the clinical psychology department at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. His wife, Louise K. Jeffrey, PhD, established the fund with the Foundation to support a $2,000 annual award.
Dr. Allan is currently clinical assistant professor of psychology in medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, co-founder and director of the Coronary Risk Reduction Program, and professional associate at the New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. In addition, he acts as director of psychological services at the New York Hospital of Queens Cardiac Health Center. Dr. Allan’s practice specialty is the psychological treatment of cardiac patients and their families. He has contributed numerous book chapters and journal articles in the field and co-edited (with cardiologist Stephen Scheidt, MD) the book Heart & Mind: the Practice of Cardiac Psychology,” published by APA in 1996.
Dr. Allan earned his bachelor’s degree from Queens College of the City University of New York, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from New York University. Following graduation, his first job included playing keyboards in a band at the famed Concord Hotel in the Catskill Mountains of New York. He subsequently attended the Juilliard School, where he studied music. Before returning to work in the field of psychology, he spent 10 years performing popular music.
Allan established the first stress reduction support group program for cardiac patients in the New York metropolitan area in 1982, at the Nassau County chapter of the American Heart Association. He currently treats individual patients and leads stress reduction support groups at New York Presbyterian Hospital and its affiliated Cardiac Health Centers in Manhattan and Queens. Allan was site coordinator for the Determinants of Time of Myocardial Infarction study and is currently consultant to the Triggers of Ventricular Arrhythmia study at the Weill Cornell Medical Center.
