Predoctoral Internship Program in Professional Psychology
Faculty
Director of Mental Health Education Dean Aufderheide, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health Services
Assistant Director of
Mental Health Education Stephen Pittman, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Mental
Health Services
Internship Program Training Director Carolyn S. Holmes, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist, Senior Mental Health Clinician FDC
Internship Site Supervisors Susan Forbes, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist at Lowell Correctional Institution, FDC Debra Gleason, Ph. D., Licensed Psychologist at Lowell Correctional Institution, FDC Carolyn S. Holmes, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist at Lake Correctional Institution/CFRC, FDC
Training Site Wardens Jimmie O. Atmore, Jr., Warden of Lake Correctional Institution Mary Holcomb, Warden of Hernando Correctional Institution Jeffrey Wainwright, Warden of Central Florida Reception Center Kim Southerland, Warden of Lowell Correctional Institution
FACULTY INFORMATION
Dean Aufderheide, Ph.D., is currently serving as the Director of Mental Health Education. He is a licensed psychologist in the state of Florida. He has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology; a Masters degree in Theology and is earning a Masters degree in Public Administration from Florida State University. He has twenty years of experience providing and managing behavioral mental healthcare services in military, state government and private settings across various levels of care. Dr. Aufderheide has written numerous publications and has lectured on mental health issues in the criminal justice system at national conferences throughout the United States. Currently he is the Director of Mental Health Services for the Florida Department of Corrections and serves on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Correctional and Forensic Psychology.
Mary G. Barbee, Ph. D., is a licensed psychologist in the state of Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For the past twelve years, Dr. Barbee has been working for the Florida Department of Corrections. Seven of those years, she was a senior psychologist. For five of them she served as Region III Mental Health Consultant and currently she serves as an Assistant Director of Mental Health. Prior to working for the Department of Corrections, Dr. Barbee worked as a Clinical Director for a homeless coalition and as a consultant/therapist to a private inner city school and a public school district.
Bruce Brooks, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Florida and has been employed by the Florida Department of Corrections at Zephyrhills Correctional Institution for 19 years. Dr. Brooks received his doctorate in Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi and completed his clinical internship at Eastern State Hospital in Oklahoma. He has spent majority of his career working in inpatient settings within corrections.
Patrick H. Brown, M.D., received his medical degree from State University of New York at Stony Brook. After completing his residency in internal medicine at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital and Health Center he joined the St. Clare’s Hospital and Health Center as their Clinical Supervisor and Assistant Director of Medical Education. Since then he has been the Medical Director for several health care delivery systems. Immediately prior to joining the Florida Department of Corrections, Dr. Brown was the Medical Director for the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, Office of Correctional Health Services. In 2003 he joined the Florida Department of Corrections where he is Director of Health Services. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Neal Carter, Ph.D., is the Lead Senior Mental Health Clinician at Lake Correctional Institution and has extensive experience working with severely and persistently mentally ill patients. He is also Adjunct Professor at Barry University where he teaches Group Dynamics and Individual Counseling Techniques. He received his M.S. in Counseling Psychology from Nova Southeastern University, and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Florida State University. His areas of clinical interest include the assessment of risk and violence and individual and group supervision.
Cliff Fairbanks, Psy.D., received his doctorate at Nova Southeastern. He has worked in a Private Practice 1984-2003; consultant to Martin County Schools. Contractor with the Florida Department Vocational Rehabilitation 1996-2003. PTSD Community Grant Program at James A. Haley VA Hospital, Tampa 2003; Florida Department of Corrections previously as Sr. Psychologist at Zephyrhills Correctional Institution; currently he is Regional Mental Health Consultant for the Florida Department of Corrections.. He is a member of APA; FPA; American Association Correctional and Forensic Psychologists and National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. With the late Albert L. LeDuc Jr., a national leader in management information systems, he co-authored a book in 2000, Leading with Something Besides Your Chin: A Guide to Organizational Leadership which was targeted to new managers in Information Technology.
Susan Forbes, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist serving as a Senior Mental Health Clinician at the Lowell Correctional Institution Annex in Ocala. She is a former operating room nurse and surgical first assistant who returned to school and received her doctorate from the Florida School of Professional Psychology Argosy/Tampa. She completed her internship at the Florida State Hospital in Chattahoochee. Her work experience includes extensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy and the treatment and evaluation of individuals found not guilty by reason of insanity and incompetent to proceed.
Debra Gleason, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist and the Lead Senior Mental Health Clinician at Lowell Correctional Institution. She is a graduate of the clinical psychology program at the University of Tennessee. During her internship year at the James H. Quillen VAMC, she completed rotations in psychotherapy, PTSD, oncology/palliative care, primary care/pain management, administration, and the ETSU Counseling Center. Post doctoral training emphasized geropsychology and was completed at the North Florida/South Georgia VAMC with training in rehabilitation, palliative care, psychotherapy, neuropsychology, primary care, and PTSD. She has an integrative psychotherapy orientation built on a foundation of psychodynamic theory emphasizing Heinz Kohut’s self psychology and the British object relations school. Her training has also included extensive assessment training including the Rorschach. Prior to entering the field of psychology, she earned an M.S. in Computer Information Science from Florida State University specializing in artificial intelligence and an M.M. in Music Theory from Florida State University specializing in Baroque instrumental music. In addition, she earned two bachelor degrees from the University of West Florida one in Music emphasizing trumpet performance and the other in Mathematics with a minor in Physics.
Carolyn S. Holmes, Ph.D., is currently serving as the Predoctoral Internship Program Training Director. She trained at Texas A&M University where she earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in their APA approved clinical program. Her pre-doctoral internship was at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston where she completed specialty tracks in correctional psychology and child and adolescent work. She remained at UTHSC-Houston as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and later had the opportunity to run the Behavioral Sciences program for the Univ. of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston Dept. of Family Practice at Conroe. Her work has included the opening of several inpatient facilities for children, adolescents and adults. Her strong interest in training has led her to supervise the education of medical students, psychiatry and family practice residents as well as psychology students from practicum level to post-doctoral. She is now working for the Florida Department of Corrections where she has established a pre-doctoral psychology internship program for the third time in her career.
Frank Johanson, M.D., is board certified in Internal Medicine. He attended medical school at Oregon Health Science University and completed his internship and residency at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida. He has practiced medicine for over 20 years and earlier this year was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health Services, Clinical for the Florida Department of Corrections.
Virginia Mesa, M.D., is the Chief Health Officer at Lake Correctional Institution. She received her medical degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed her internship in Internal Medicine at Henry Ford Hospital. Her Residency in GPM Preventive medicine was at the University of Michigan. She also has a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Phung Duc Nguyen, M.D., received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Min. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at the G. W. Hubbard Hospital in Nashville Tennessee. He has worked for the Florida Department of Corrections for 15 years. Currently, he is caring for patients in the Crisis Stabilization and Transitional Care Units in Lake Correctional Institutions Mental Health Unit.
Olugbenga Ogunsanwo, M.D., has been in correctional medicine since 1992, initially at HM Prison Service (England and Wales), and presently at the Florida Department of Corrections as the Medical Executive Director for Region III. He did his residency in obstetrics and gynecology in England and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (FRCOG) and European Association of Gynecologists and Obstetricians (EAGO). He is a Certified Correctional Health Professional (CCHP) and an American Academy of HIV Specialist (AAHIVS). He also holds a Diploma in Addictive Behavior (St George's Medical School, University of London.)
Stephen Pittman, Ph.D., serves as the Assistant Director of Mental Health Education. He received his B.S. from The Ohio State University, his M.S. and Ph.D. from the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Florida, and completed his pre-doctoral internship at the Albany Psychology Internship Consortium in Albany, New York. Dr. Pittman is a Florida licensed psychologists. He has provided services as a psychologist and Mental Health administrator in a variety of Department of Corrections facilities throughout the state over the past 9 years. Dr. Pittman has previously worked as a clinician in private practice, juvenile justice, and with emotionally and learning disabled children. Currently he is the Assistant Director of Mental Health Services for the Florida Department of Corrections.
Evelyn Ploumis-Devick, Ph.D., currently serves as the Executive Director of Agency Planning and Partnerships for the Florida Department of Corrections. Her experience and expertise in the areas of leadership, programs, grants and resource development has influenced positive change in the public, non profit, educational, correctional and community sectors for more that 25 years. She has held senior leadership positions within legislative, governmental, community, higher education and public school settings and has consulted statewide and nationally. Dr. Ploumis-Devick began her service with the Department of Corrections in 1992 and currently serves as the Executive Director for Agency Planning and Partnershipsfor the Florida Department of Corrections. She received Bachelor of Music Education, Masters of Science in Social Studies Education with emphasis in multicultural education, and the Ph.D., in Higher Education with minor emphasis in Adult Education from the Florida State University.
Sandeep R. Rahangdale, M.D., has a B.S. degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh, where he did extensive research as part of his Honors curriculum. He also received a B.A. degree in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh prior to attending the UNC School of
Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. After his M.D. degree, Dr. Rahangdale pursued a year and a half of Diagnostic Radiology training at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC, prior to completing a Residency in Internal Medicine through the UNC system. He currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the FSU College of Medicine, in Tallahassee, Florida, in addition to his duties as Assistant Secretary of Health Services for FDOC.
Ada Ramirez, Ph.D., earned a Bachelors Degree and Masters Degree from Florida International University; Ph.D. in psychology from Miami Institute. She has been employed at the Florida Department of Corrections for 10 years. She has worked in private practice for the past 18 years as a Psychologist and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. She has experience providing individual and family therapy to adults and adolescents, conducted psychological evaluations for private practice, government programs and courts. She has experience in preparing civil commitment evaluations of sex offenders for the Sexually Violent Predator Program for the Department of Children and Families and in the clinical supervision of students from the master to post-doctoral level. She is a frequent lecturer on topics such as Cognitive Therapy/Treatment of Anxiety and Depression, Women in Prison and Sex Offender Evaluations.
Krisha Ramsetty, M.D., received his medical degree from Osmana Medical College in Hydrabad, India, and went on to become an Ophthalmologist at Osmania University, Hydrabad, India. He worked for several years in India and the West Indies as an Ophthalmologist. He completed his Psychiatric Residency at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Wards Island, New York, where he went on to specialize in the administration of ECT and became Board Certified. He has been with the Florida Department of Corrections at Lake Correctional Institution for the past 8 years.
Paul Roberts, D.O., serves as the statewide Psychiatric Consultant for the Florida Department of Corrections and is based at the Central Florida Reception Center in Orlando. He is a native born Floridian who studied medicine at the Southeastern University of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency in psychiatry at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute in Cherokee Iowa. His interest in addictions leads him to work as an investigator with the National Institute of Mental Health prior to joining the Florida Department of Corrections. He also holds an Associate Professor appointment at Nova Southeastern University.
Joyce Sudeall, M.D., received her medical degree at New York Medical College at Valhalla and completed psychiatric residency at State University of New York and Kings County Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. She completed a fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry there also. She brings extensive experience in community mental health and has been the Asst. Director of Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn. Her expertise in forensic testimony has prepared her well for her current position providing court testimony and treatment for the most seriously mentally ill patients within the Florida Department of Corrections.
Pamela V. Valentine, Ph.D., received her doctorate in social work from the Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, FL. As a doctoral candidate, she conducted outcome research at the Federal Corrections Institute, a medium security prison in Tallahassee. She wrote her dissertation on the efficacy of a mental health intervention on symptoms associated with traumatic events as it pertained to women inmates. Upon receiving her doctorate, Dr. Valentine accepted a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Public Service at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where she later was promoted to Associate Professor. She was also a senior researcher and grant collaborator for the Institute of Clinical Research Center at UAB. While in Birmingham, Dr. Valentine published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation lead articles on effective mental health interventions for women inmates. More recently, Dr. Valentine relocated to Tallahassee to join her husband who is a professor at the FSU, and she now directs the Office of Grant Development at the Florida Department of Corrections.
Morrissa Watson, Psy.D., trained at the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology with a formal specialty in Diagnostics and Assessment. She currently is the Clinical Director of Sarasota Psychology Services, LLC. As the former Director of Mental Health for the Florida Department of Corrections, she has served on the Governor’s Advisory Council on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, and the Governor’s Mental Health Planning Council. Dr. Watson is a licensed psychologist and specializes in diagnostics and assessment.
William Whitman, M.D., holds a B.S. in Pharmacology and worked for several years as a pharmacist prior to entering medical school. Hereceived his medical training at Rutgers. Having completed his residency and fellowship at the University of Florida; He remains an avid “Gator” fan. His work in psychiatry has included 10 years in private practice and over 14 years with the Florida Department of Corrections.
The Florida Department of Corrections is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Certain veterans and spouses of veterans receive preference in employment
by the state as provided by Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, and are encouraged to apply.
