The Collaborative Psychologist: Creating Reciprocal Relationships With Medical Professionals

Presenters' Biographies:  

Nancy Ruddy, Ph.D. received her Ph.D. in child clinical psychology from Bowling Green State University.  She was on the faculty of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in the departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry from 1991 until 2000.  She served on the faculty of the Hunterdon Family Practice Residency Program from 2001 - 2008.  She currently serves on the faculty of the Mountainside Family Practice Residency in Verona, New Jersey.  She is also in private practice in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey.  She has written and presented extensively on topics related to primary care mental health, and the interface between the medical and mental health worlds.   

Dorothy A. Borresen, PhD, APN, has been in private practice for more than 20 years, where she practices both psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.  She has a doctorate in psychology from Temple University and a master's degree in psychiatric mental health nursing from the University of Pennsylvania.  She is assistant professors of medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick.  She teaches behavioral science to medical students and residents at the Family Medicine Residency Program at Capital Health System. She is a coauthor of The Collaborative Psychotherapist-Creating Reciprocal Relationships with Medical Professionals (2008).

Dr. Gunn received his doctoral degree at Virginia Tech in 1986 in family therapy.  Prior to that he was a school psychologist and special education director.  In 1986 he began teaching in family medicine and continues in that capacity nineteen years later.   He was the Director of Behavioral Science in Fort Collins, Colorado, co-director at Duke University and for the past ten years has been a faculty member at the NH/Dartmouth FPR in Concord, NH. Dr.Gunn is a co-author of Models of Collaboration; a book designed for mental health professionals working in medical settings and has published articles around the integration of behavioral health into primary care.  In addition to his residency work, Dr.Gunn has worked for 20 years as an organizational consultant and serves in that capacity in the local health care system of which the residency is a part.