Leadership

Carrie Kennedy, PhD

President

Carrie H. Kennedy, Ph.D., ABPP is an aerospace neuropsychologist currently serving as an active duty Captain in the U.S. Navy. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, a Fellow of both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and has been active in Division 19 since 2000. Awards include the APA Division 19 Charles S. Gersoni Award, Robert S. Nichols Award, and the Distinguished Mentor Award, and she is a two time Navy Psychologist of the Year winner. She is board certified in both Clinical and Police and Public Safety Psychology. 

Email:  president@militarypsych.org

Melissa Hiller Lauby, PhD

President-Elect

CAPT (Ret) Melissa Hiller Lauby is a native of Glenwood, Iowa. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with dual specializations in Clinical and Disaster Psychology from the University of South Dakota in 2002. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in trauma at the National Center for PTSD in Honolulu, Hawaii, and pursued further leadership training through the Healthcare Leadership Academy at the University of California San Diego and Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) Phase I at the Air Command and Staff College.

Over nearly 22 years of distinguished service in the U.S. Navy, CAPT Lauby held a wide range of clinical, operational, and leadership roles. Operational highlights include serving as the Ship’s Psychologist aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN 68), where she earned both the Surface Warfare Medical Department Officer qualification and designation as Officer of the Deck Underway. She also supported high-risk training environments at Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) School and the Naval Special Warfare Center/Basic Underwater Demolition School (BUD/S), where she developed the assessment and selection program for SEAL candidates.  Her administrative leadership roles included serving as the Chair of the Medical Executive Committee at Naval Medical Center San Diego, and the Director for Warrior Toughness at Naval Service Training Command overseeing the development and implementation of a Navy-wide human performance curriculum. She also served as the Navy's Director of Psychological Health at the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and as the Clinical Psychology Specialty Leader. CAPT Lauby concluded her Naval career as Executive Officer at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Fort Belvoir, retiring on June 1, 2025.

Following her retirement, she founded Courageous Horizons Psychological Solutions, LLC, where she now provides psychological assessment, coaching, and consultation services. In 2027, she will serve as President of the American Psychological Association's Division 19, the Society for Military Psychology.

CAPT Lauby is a board-certified Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology and holds active licenses in Virginia and Hawaii. Her professional recognitions include being named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (2025), the Navy Senior Psychologist of the Year (2016), and receiving the Military Health System Allied Health Leadership Excellence Award (2018). Her personal military decorations include the Legion of Merit, three Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Commendation Medal, five Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and the Navy Achievement Medal.

She is married to CAPT Todd Lauby, also a Medical Service Corps officer. Together, they are the proud parents of Jacob (16) and Caleb (10).

Email:  president-elect@militarypsych.org

Arlene Saitzyk, PhD

Past President

Dr. Arlene Saitzyk is a retired Navy Captain with extensive experience in clinical and operational psychology, and leading mental health policy and programs. She served as Director of Mental Health for all of Navy Medicine, leading policy and programs for Navy and Marine Corps personnel from accession to separation. She also led Medical Operations enterprise-wide during the most challenging of times, in charge of not only Mental Health but several other medical policy areas including overseeing COVID-19 responses for military and civilian organizations. Prior to her work at Navy Medicine headquarters, she served as Director of Behavioral Science for the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group, where she assessed, selected, and continuously monitored Marines for critical duty guarding our nation’s embassy and consulate personnel and classified information. Dr. Saitzyk is fellowship trained as a pediatric psychologist, and served in Okinawa, Japan, caring for service members’ children. Additionally, she trained and served as a clinical aerospace psychologist, evaluating mental health conditions in flight personnel. Within Division 19, she chaired the inaugural Advocacy Summit, was elected Member at Large, and served as mentor and faculty for the Society Leadership Program. She was selected as the 2018 recipient of the Julius E. Uhlaner award for excellence in military selection and recruitment, and the 2023 recipient of the Robert S. Nichols Award for outstanding contributions to military personnel and their families. In 2023 she was selected as Fellow, Division 19, of the American Psychological Association. 

Email:  past-president@militarypsych.org

William Brim, PsyD

Treasurer

William Brim, Psy.D., is the executive director of the Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He joined CDP in 2007, initially as a deployment behavioral health psychologist at Malcolm Grow Medical Center and served as deputy director until 2017. Prior to joining CDP, Dr. Brim served on active duty as a psychologist in the United States Air Force from 1997 to 2007. Dr. Brim received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee and his master’s and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a graduate of the Wilford Hall Medical Center Psychology Residency Program and the Wilford Hall Clinical Health Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program. Dr. Brim is a recognized and post-doctoral fellowship trained behavioral sleep medicine specialist. Clinically he focuses on the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder, insomnia and nightmares. Dr. Brim has over 100 publications and presentations on a range of topics including military culture, insomnia and insomnia and nightmare treatments and trauma. He is frequently called on to consult in courts martial and discharge boards as a forensic psychology expert with a specific focus on trauma and memory.  

Email:  treasurer@militarypsych.org

Samantha Daniel, PhD

Secretary

Samantha Daniel, PhD, HSP-P is a seasoned military psychologist and researcher with more than 15 years of experience designing and leading large-scale research and analytic efforts across the Department of Defense and academia. She earned her BA in Psychology from Mercer University, her MS in Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi, and her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Memphis. She currently serves as the Associate Director of Data and Reporting for the Military Community Advocacy Directorate under DoD’s Military Community and Family Policy program where she oversees enterprise-wide research, evaluation, and data initiatives that inform senior leaders, policymakers, and Congress on the health and wellbeing of the military community.

Dr. Daniel has led multidisciplinary teams conducting applied research on military workplace climate, equal opportunity, readiness, resilience, retention, child abuse and neglect, domestic abuse, and human capital management. Her expertise includes designing and leading large-scale survey research efforts, program evaluation, database management and consolidation, strategic planning, and advanced analytics and data visualization, with a strong focus on translating complex data into actionable insights for decision-makers.

A licensed psychologist and Division 19 Fellow, Dr. Daniel has authored more than 70 policy and research reports and numerous peer-reviewed publications to date. She also serves as a Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus and is a dedicated military spouse.

Email:  secretary@militarypsych.org

Tim Hoyt, PhD

APA Council Representative

Tim Hoyt, Ph.D. represents Division 19 on the APA Council of Representatives (2023-2025). He served on active duty as a psychologist in the U.S. Army, including deploying to Afghanistan as the lead of a forward mental health team. He is currently the Deputy Director for Force Resiliency in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness. He is an APA Fellow, and the recipient of the Arthur W. Melton Early Achievement Award (Division 19) and the Peter J. N. Linnerooth National Service Award (Division 18). He is the editor of the Division 19 Newsletter The Military Psychologist and is an associate editor for the journal Military Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of New Mexico, and is a Superior Graduate of the U.S. Army War College.

Email:  councilrep1@militarypsych.org

Mark Staal, PhD

APA Council Representative

Dr. Mark Staal is a retired Colonel having served as the Air Force’s senior operational psychologist. Mark’s PhD in Clinical Psychology, he is a board-certified executive coach, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Human Factors engineering at NASA. Mark spent most of his career serving within the Special Operations community to include positions as a Command Psychologist at the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and as the Command Psychologist at the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).

Dr. Staal is a recognized leader in his field having published over 50 journal articles, book chapters, and books in the areas of operational psychology, ethics, resiliency, and human decision making. Mark serves as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences for movies and television and he previously served as a Division President for the American Psychological Association. He is the owner of OSS Consulting, LLC, an independent consulting company providing personnel suitability, talent management, and executive coaching services.

Email:  councilrep2@militarypsych.org

Ashley Markovic, PsyD

Member at Large

Dr. Ashley (Shenberger) Markovic is a Board Certified Licensed Clinical Psychologist practicing in Chicago and Central Illinois. She completed her doctoral degree from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in 2013. From 2012-2023, she served in the United States Navy as Clinical Psychologist and now serves a civilian population within the Veterans Affairs system.  She is also a Division 19 Member at Large and the Executive Director of the Society Leadership Program. She is currently serving as Midwest Director and mentorship coordinator for the American Board of Professional Psychology, Clinical Psychology.

Adeline Ong, PhD

Member at Large

Dr. Ong, is a  psychologist currently serving as Chief for the Naval Center for Combat and Operational Stress Control advancing policy development, program development, and program evaluation for initiatives in operational stress control, psychological resilience, embedded mental health, and disaster mental health for Navy Medicine.  Notable activities include collaborating with Navy operational and mental health leaders to formalize and standardize an embedded mental health model, develop and implement training for operational stress control and psychological readiness, and create innovative programs in disaster mental health.  Previously, she served as the Associate Director for Mental Health at a large medical treatment facility leading multidisciplinary staff assigned across an inpatient psychiatric service, outpatient mental health services, and a substance abuse rehabilitation unit serving service members across the INDOPACOM region.  In past assignments, she worked in various operational locations, including as a carrier psychologist deployed to the Fifth Fleet, OSCAR Psychologist with a Marine Corps Infantry Regiment, and an individual augmentee to the NATO Role III hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  These varied experiences have enabled her to have a diverse and inclusive perspective and approach in my leadership activities and development of initiatives and programs.

Lisa Boyce, PhD

Member at Large

Dr. Lisa A. Boyce is the Deputy Director of the International Science Division at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), where she provides strategic oversight of global basic research programs advancing international collaborations in support of DoD priorities. She earned her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from George Mason University and her commission from the United States Air Force Academy. During her military career, Colonel (ret.) Boyce served in operational, academic, and leadership roles, including as a Behavioral Scientist Exchange Officer with the Royal Australian Air Force, Assistant Professor and Director of Research at USAFA and Services’ Commander supporting contingency operations, including USS Cole and 9/11 missions. She later served as an International Program Officer and Deputy Site Commander in London, managing AFOSR’s life sciences portfolio and multinational engagements. In her final military assignment, she led the Air Force’s first Cyberspace Wing. Following her military service, she held senior research leadership roles in the United Kingdom, including Deputy Director of Research and Innovation Services at the University of Surrey. Dr. Boyce has authored and edited two books, multiple book chapters, and over 40 peer-reviewed publications and presentations, with a focus on leadership development, human performance, and the translation of research into practice within military and organizational contexts. 

Christine Puls

Student Member at Large

Bio coming soon!