Martha S. Potter Zlokovich, PhD
Dr. Zlokovich, BA psychology, UCLA; MS, PhD developmental psychology, University of Florida. She joined Psi Chi in 2008 as Executive Director, leaving Southeast Missouri State University after 17 years where she taught, earned Full Professor, and served as Interim Director of the Center for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning as well as Psychology Department Chair. She was instrumental in developing Psi Chi’s Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE) crowd-sourced data collection research project. Currently Division 52 Treasurer.
Kurt F. Geisinger, PhD
Dr. Geisinger is Director of the Buros Center on Testing and W. C. Meierhenry Distinguished University Professor at the University of Nebraska. He has served the maximum two terms as council representative for the Division of Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics in the American Psychological Association, which he also represents on the ISO’s International Test Standards committee. Dr. Geisinger serves as president of Division 5: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods of the American Psychological Association (APA), president of Division 2: Psychological Assessment and Evaluation of International Association of Psychology (IAAP), and president of the International Test Commission (ITC). He has edited, co-edited, or written some 23 books and manuals as well as approximately 175 chapters and journal articles. Dr. Geisinger’s primary interests are admissions testing, testing individuals with disabilities, and the adaptation of tests across languages and cultures.
Antonio E. Puente, PhD
Antonio E. Puente, PhD, was born in La Habana, Cuba and emigrated to the US in 1960. Puente received his PhD from the University of Georgia. Puente is founding director of UNCW’s Centro Hispano, and his research focuses on the interface between culture and neuropsychology. Puente founded and edited the journals Neuropsychology Review and Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice as well as a neuropsychology book series. He has published 10 books, 93 chapters, and 123 scientific articles in several languages.
Puente is a Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, maintains a private practice in clinical neuropsychology, and is the founder (2002) and co-director of mental health services at the Cape Fear Clinic, a bilingual multi-disciplinary health center serving the indigent.
He served as APA’s advisor for 15 years to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) prior to serving for an additional 8 years as one of 17 members of the AMA CPT Panel.
Puente served as president of the NC Psychological Association, NC Psychological Foundation, the Hispanic Neuropsychological Association, National Academy of Neuropsychology, Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (Division 40 of APA), and Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology (Division 6 of APA), as well as President of the American Psychological Association.
Antonios Kagialis
Antonios Kagialis is in his final year as a master’s student in Neurosciences at the Medical School, University of Crete, Greece. He has received several academic distinctions and has co-authored 15 publications. He is the first Psi Chi NICE Chair (outside the USA) coordinating the implementation of a cross-cultural research project in over 25 countries. His main research interests focus on fMRI studies of cognition and emotion in healthy volunteers and persons with neurological disorders.