Selected Advocacy Initiatives

1997 - Established Legal Center for Patient Protection, Washington, D.C. based non-profit corporation to support legal efforts to protect patients from managed care abuse.

1992-94 - Organized and implemented APA campaign leading to inclusion of psychological services in all major national health reform proposals

1986 to 1993 - Developed and implemented nationally-recognized advocacy structure for psychology

1987-89 - Successful national campaign to gain inclusion for psychologists in Medicare Program from which they had been excluded for 25 years

1985-1990 - Psychoanalysis - Successful class action anti-trust suit to open psychoanalytic training to psychologists and other non-physician health care providers

1983-present - Managed Care - Leading mental health spokesperson seeking regulation of managed care mental health

1987-90 - Hospital Practice - Secured victory in California courts for psychology hospital practice rights leading to legislative success in other states as well


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