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KEVIN M. McGUINNESS, Ph.D., MS, MP, ABPP-CH
CAPTAIN, UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
Director, Clinical Psychologist
National Health Service Corps’ Ready Responders
6735 Mariposa Drive
El Paso, Texas79912
915-204-5895 (Day and Evening)
EDUCATION
M.S. Post-Doc Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2005, FairleighDickinsonUniversity, Teaneck, NJ
J.D. Law, 1998, KensingtonUniversity, College of Law, Honolulu, HI (non-bar/CE)
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology; 1991, CaliforniaSchool of Professional Psychology, Fresno, CA
M.A. General Psychology; 1988, CaliforniaSchool of Professional Psychology, Fresno, CA
B.S. Physiological Psychology; 1982, GeorgeMasonUniversity, Fairfax, VA
B.S. Chemistry; 1979, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Dissertation in Clinical Health Psychology: Locus of Control, Desire for Control and Religious Orientation as Correlates of Father's Involvement with His Medically High-risk Infant
PROFESSIONAL LICENSE/CERTIFICATIONS:
Diplomate, Clinical Health Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology;
Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology, Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards;
Diplomate, Forensic Examination, American Board of Forensic Examiners;
Texas Psychologist License Number 32347, (Inactive);
Louisiana Medical (Prescribing) Psychologist License Number 1014MP;
New Mexico Psychology License Number 541;
New Mexico Prescribing Psychologist License Number 0018;
New Mexico Controlled and Dangerous Substance License Number CS00214607;
Massachusetts Psychologist Provider License Number 8437, Expired;
DEA Registration Number MM1532349 (Federal Employment Only);
DEA Registration Number MM1995008(Private Practice)
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SPECIAL DHHS ASSIGNMENTS 2001 to 2011:
2009/10/11/12- Mental Health Advisor to Scientist Billet Transformation Team
2009-Republic of Liberia, Ministry of Health and Social Services, Assessment of the National Health
System
2007/8-Advisor to President of the Rosebud Sioux Tribal
2007-Senior Advisor for Mental Health to the Commissioned Corps Transformation Senior Leadership
Advisory Committee
2006/7/8-Chairman, USPHS Commissioned Corps Mental Health Functional Advisory Committee
2006/7/8/9-Commander, Disaster Mental Health Team Four
2005-Advisor to HHS Secretary’s Emergency Response Team for the Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Response
2005-Indonesia, Behavioral Health Consultant, Operation Unified Assistance, Indian Ocean Tsunami
Response
2002/3/4/5-Scientist Professional Advisory Committee
2002/3/4/5-USPHS Commissioned Corps Associate Recruiter Program
2001-USPHS Deployment to World Trade Center/Flight 587 Airline disaster
CURRENT PHS ASSIGNMENT:
Job Title/Billet Rating: Director Clinical Psychologist-Ready Responder/CO-06
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration/National Health Service Corps
Duties and responsibilities:
I am a member of the National Health Service Corps’ Ready Responders program and Chief Behavioral Health Officer for the Ready Responders. In January, 2007 I was appointed Chairman of the first Mental Health Functional Advisory Committee of the U.S. Public Health Service. When not serving in a deployment or training status I am assigned to a NHSC Field Site in Chaparral, New Mexico. This site is a federally designated Health Professional Shortage site. I provide a broad array of direct clinical services including evaluation, diagnosis, psychotherapy and medication to primarily Spanish-speaking children and their families in an integrated primary care setting. In addition to clinical health psychology services, I also provide senior level consultation services to the HRSA regarding Clinical Health Psychology practice development, medical education, organizational and public mental health issues.
Major Accomplishments/Current Projects
In 2012, I am working with the New Mexico State University to found an Institute for Health-care Systems Integration. In 2009, I established my clinic’s first capability to provide, on-site, a full range of behavioral health and medical psychology services in this rural community with no other psychiatric or health psychology services available. Also in 2009 I completed a health diplomacy mission to assess, from a behavioral sciences perspective, the emerging health system of the Republic of Liberia. I served as team commander for the first global health mission of the USPHS that was not a joint DOD mission. In late 2008 I developed a systems level clinical intervention with the leadership of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe
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CURRENT PHS ASSIGNMENT CONTINUED:
to reduce the suicide rate associated with a years-long suicide epidemic. In 2009 the suicide attempt rate declined and completed suicides were zero.
Location: National Health Service Corps Field Site - La Clinica de Familia-Chaparral, NM
Date: 3/2007-Present
PHS ASSIGNMENT HISTORY:
Position Title: Director Clinical Psychologist-Ready Responder/CO-06
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration/National Health Service Corps
Duties and responsibilities:
I served as the team leader for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/ U.S.Public Health Service Disaster Mental Health Team 4 and as a member of the National Health Service Corps’ ReadyResponders program. When not serving in a deployment or training status I provided clinical services in a NHSC FieldSite in Anthony, New Mexico. I provided a broad array of direct clinical services to English-speaking and Spanish-speakingchildren and their families. I also provided senior level consultation services to the agency regarding clinical,organizational and public mental health issues.
Major Accomplishments/Current Projects:
Since 2006 I have taught the Mercy Model to hundreds of Public HealthService commissioned officers, including Ready Responders. In 2007, I served as a co-author of the Department ofDefense-Public Health Service Mental Health Partnership. In 2010 I supervised post-doctoral clinicalpsychopharmacology graduate students from the Netherlands in collaboration with the New Mexico State University andthe Southwest Institute for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy. Integrated with these efforts, I serve as the seniorrepresentative of Commissioned Corps’ online mental health recruitment effort to increase the size of the CommissionedCorps.
Location: Anthony, NM
Date: 9/2006-3/2008
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PHS ASSIGNMENT HISTORY CONTINUED:
Position Title: Director Clinical Psychologist-Ready Responder
Organization: Health Resources and Services Administration/National Health Service Corps (NHSC)/Ready Responders/The Home for Little Wanderers
Duties and responsibilities: I was assigned to the Home for Little Wanderers (The Home) in Boston MA as a member of the NHSC Ready Responders program. I provided a broad array of direct clinical services to English-speaking and Spanish-speaking children and their families. I also provided senior level public health consultation to various agency programs within The Home. Through my association with The Home, I supervised pre-doctoral clinical psychology interns from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology.
Major Accomplishments/Current Projects: As a Ready Responder I participated in Operation Unified Assistance aboard the USNS Mercy. I contributed to a psychosocial capacity building project that has helped an estimated 200,000 children impacted by the 2004 earthquake and tsunami. Aboard the Mercy I provided consultation regarding the utility of clinical health psychology as a powerful healthcare tool in a humanitarian and disaster response environment. In October, 2005 I supported the recovery of the LA Behavioral Health/Health Care System as a consultant to the LA Governor’s Office and the Departments of Education and Health and Hospitals following hurricanes Katrina and Rita. That work resulted in an interagency program to deliver recovery and reintegration training for all 1,200 schools statewideand over 800,000 students. In 2006, I was appointed by the U.S. Surgeon General to serve as Mental Health Team Leader in the new HHS/PHS disaster response system. At The Home for Little Wanderers I was the Senior Clinical Advisor to the Therapeutic Foster Care Program regarding policies, procedures and the delivery of clinical services to children that had been removed from their homes due to abuse, abandonment, or neglect. I served on the Ethics Committee and the Pandemic Continuity of
Operations Planning Committee for the agency.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Date: 9/2004-9/2006
Position Title:Drug Abuse Programs Coordinator
Organization: Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Institution-La Tuna
Duties and responsibilities: I coordinated all residential and outpatient drug abuse treatment programs for Federal Correctional Institution-La Tuna and La Tuna Camp. I supervised five Drug Treatment
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Specialists and provided generalclinical services to the Psychology Services Department. I provided psychological screening and treatment services inEnglish and Spanish. I supported institutional management as Drug Abuse Programs Coordinator (DAPC) and as actingchief of the Department of Psychology in the absence of the Chief Psychologist. I supported inmate management asDAPC and by providing coverage on inmate housing units. I performed clinical and administrative duties within the
Institution’s Employee Assistance Program. I was assigned various administrative duties in support of the AdministrativeRemedy Process including writing responses for the Warden’s signature regarding the inmate request to staff member,inmate complaints, etc.
Major Accomplishments: I identified a method within the SENTRY database to assign inmates in the Residential DrugAbuse Program (RDAP) to individual Drug Treatment Specialists (DTS). This method enabled Drug Abuse ProgramCoordinators and DTS’s to resolve inmate issues more efficiently and track the status of inmates (by assigned DTS)throughout their incarceration in the institution. I also translated inmate agreements to participate in the RDAP andTransitional Services Programs into Spanish, for use in the Institution and South Central Region.
Location: Anthony, Texas
Date: 5/2003-9/2004
Position Title: Chief of Psychological Services, Senior Clinical Scientist Officer
Organization: HRSA/BPHC, Division of Immigration Health Services (DIHS)
Duties and responsibilities: I directed all mental health and clinical health psychology services for the El Paso Service Processing Center. I provided specialized clinical consultation services in the areas of clinical, clinical health and forensic psychology to clinical and management staff of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and DIHS regarding undocumented immigrants detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center. Such consultation included psychological assessment, clinical health psychology and psychopharmacology evaluation and treatment.
Major accomplishments: I designed and implemented local operating procedures (LOPs) for mental health and clinical health psychology service delivery to the detained population of approximately 900 undocumented immigrants. I designed, initiated and maintained a training program for 270 detention and security personnel providing strategies and techniques that targeted crisis prevention, communication skills, suicide prevention, and detention safety. I provided clinical services and consultation to deportation
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and detention staff regarding difficult to manage inmates. I provided psychological services in the clinic and on the housing units. I managed patients on a preventive rather than crisis basis, virtually eliminating the cost of outpatient psychiatric services with a resulting clinic savings of approximately 2,500/month or a projected $30,000/year.
Location: El Paso, Texas
Date: 4/2000-5/2003
Position Titles: Supervisory Clinical Psychologist/Program Services Coordinator/School Principal/Psychology Internship Faculty, Acting Director Division of Behavioral Health
Organization: Indian Health Service, Acoma-Cañoncito-Laguna Service Unit (ACLSU) New Sunrise Regional Treatment Center
Duties and responsibilities: I served in multiple simultaneous positions coordinating and supervising clinical services for the Service Unit, Regional Treatment Center and accredited school. I served as a member of Faculty/Co-Chairperson Curriculum Committee for the Southwest Consortium of Clinical Psychology Internships (SCCPI). I provided psychological assessment, psychotherapy, psychopharmacologic treatment and consultation as well as, program-oriented consultation to IHS staff, tribes, government and community agencies including ACLSU governing body, State Medicaidadministrators, SAMHSA staff, JCAHO, Tribal leaders, etc.
Major accomplishments: I targeted and accomplished complete restructuring of the NSRTC into a more efficient clinical team system. I accomplished expansion of NSRTC from 2 units to 3 clinical units. I supported an increase of NSRTC daily census from 7 to 16 (1994-1997). I supported 2 JCAHO and 4 New Mexico Medicaid certifications. I supported major increases Medicaid collections from $0 in 1995 to over $1,500,000 in collections by 1999. I significantly expanded prevention activities and community intervention services impacting tens of thousands of tribal members across the state of New Mexico. The NSRTC School, under my leadership, achieved full NCA accreditation. I initiated comprehensive data collection procedures to study and enhance clinical service delivery. I increased national awareness of treatment, prevention and gang intervention needs through multi-agency consultation with the Department of Justice, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (CSAT & CSAP), etc. in Washington, DC (2000)
Location: San Fidel, NM 87049
Date: 9/1994-4/2000
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PHS ASSIGNMENT HISTORY CONTINUED:
Position Title: Chief of Medical Staff
Organization: Indian Health Service, Acoma-Cañoncito-Laguna Hospital
Duties and responsibilities: I served as Chief Professional Officer for 37 bed hospital (15 Level III Acute Care beds; 22 Substance Dependence/Mental Health beds) representing the views, policies, needs, and grievances of the medical staff to administrators, orally and via written report.
Major accomplishments: I effectively and efficiently reorganized the Medical Staff Organization of the service unit, which employs approximately 250 employees. I targeted and achieved comprehensive revamping of ACLSU Medical Staff and ACLSU bylaws emphasizing information flow and proactive risk management. I cut in half the length of Medical Staff meetings while increasing the productivity of the meetings. I addressed the need for coordination of health care service delivery between all members of the clinical team including the tribal medicine man. I developed an information management system that increased medical staff member access to important policy information and clinical data affecting the health of members of the more than 23 tribes served. I improved medical staff access to and involvement in that process. I redefined the relationship of the office of the Chief of Medical Staff to other clinical and administrative offices and clarified to all ACLSU staff the functional nature of those relationships.
Location: San Fidel, New Mexico
Date: 1997, 1998
NON-PHS EMPLOYMENT: EXECUTIVE LEVEL
Position Title: Founder and Vice President
Organization: The Joshua Foundation, Inc.
Duties and Responsibilities: The purpose of the Joshua Foundation Inc. is to educate and safeguard the public regarding the delivery of health care in the State of New Mexico. The methods include, but are not limited to, education through the communication media, political action, and litigation. As Vice President I serve as a voting member of the Board of Directors of the corporation. I assume the power and perform the duties of the President temporarily in the latter’s absence or temporary disability, or for the rest of the term of office in the case of the President’s death, resignation, or when, for any other reason, the President is unable to further exercise the powers and discharge the duties of said office.
Location: 3100 Majestic Ridge Las Cruces, NM 88011
Date: 2010-Present
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NON-PHS EMPLOYMENT: EXECUTIVE LEVEL CONTINUED
Position Title: President
Organization: Parents Reaching Out, Inc. (PRO)
Duties and Responsibilities:
As President, I was ultimately responsible for all consumer services, public affairs policy,
interagency and governmental partnerships, and all key corporate policy. PRO is a not-for-profit charitable corporationproviding a broad array of services for thousands of high risk children and their families throughout the state of NM.
Location: Los Lunas, New Mexico
Date: 1998- 2000
NON-PHS EMPLOYMENT: CLINICIAN/ACADEMIC/SCIENTIST LEVEL
Position Title: Affiliate Professor, Counseling and Educational Psychology
Organization: New Mexico State University and Southwestern Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy
Location: 1395 Missouri Street Las Cruces, NM 88001
Date: 2010-Present
Position Title: Medical Psychologist
Organization: Kevin M. McGuinness, PhD, MP, ABPP-CH
Location: 1395 Missouri Street Las Cruces, NM 88001
Date: 2008-Present
Position Title: Clinical Psychologist
Organization: Deer Oaks Mental Health Associates
Location: 4150 Rio Bravo El Paso, TX
Date: 2003-2004
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NON-PHS EMPLOYMENT: CLINICIAN/ACADEMIC/SCIENTIST LEVEL CONTINUED
Position Title: Clinical Director
Organization: The Pointe Child and Adolescent Residential Treatment Centers
Location: 200 Laura Court Santa Teresa, New Mexico 88008
Date: 2000-2003
Position Title: Clinical and Medical Psychologist
Organization: Private Practice
Location: 6117 Brockton Avenue, Suite 207, Riverside, CA 92506
Date: 6/1992-9/1994
Position Title: Assistant Professor, Psychology
Organization: Chapman University
Location: Norton Air Force Base, CA 92409-5975
Date: 1989-1992
Position Title: Chief Psychological Services/Clinical, Medical and Forensic Psychology
Organization: USAF, 22 Strategic Hospital
Location: Riverside, CA
Date: 10/1989-6/1992
Position Title: Forensic Chemist
Organization: US Drug Enforcement Administration
Location: McLean VA
Date: 1979-1985
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UNIFORMED/MILITARY SERVICE HISTORY:
Branch: U.S. Public Health Service
Dates: 1994-Present
Highest Rank/Grade: Captain/CO-06
Branch: U.S. Air Force
Dates: 1988-1994
Highest Rank/Grade: Captain/CO-03
Branch: U.S. Navy
Dates: 1973-1978
Highest Rank/Grade: HM3/E-04
SPECIAL SKILLS:
Medical Psychologist: New Mexico and Louisiana License to Prescribe Psychotropic Medication
Bilingual: Spanish, English;
Community College Teaching Credential: California Certificate # 18639 – Lifetime
Clinical Psychopharmacologist
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
President 2012- American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy, Division 55, American
Psychological Association;
President-Elect 2011- American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy, Division 55,
American Psychological Association;
Fellow*- American Psychological Association;
Member- APA Designation Committee for Postdoctoral Education and Training Programs;
Member-Commissioned Officers Association;
Chairperson 2003- APA Convention-Psychopharmacology Program, Toronto, Canada;
Chairperson 2004- APA Convention-Psychopharmacology Program, Honolulu, Hawaií;