Simmons Dean Receives National Award of Excellence
Gerald Koocher of Simmons School of Health Studies Awarded Top Clinical Psychology Honor

BOSTON (March 7, 2003)—Gerald Koocher, dean of the Simmons College School of Health Studies in Boston, has been nationally recognized for exemplary contributions to the field of clinical psychology as recipient of an annual award by the national Society of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association.

The Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions honors each year a clinical psychologist who has made “distinguished theoretical or empirical advances in psychology leading to the understanding or amelioration of important practical problems.” The award will be presented to Koocher in August at the annual APA convention in Toronto. The Society of Clinical Psychology has approximately 5,200 members nationwide.

Koocher, who has been dean of the Simmons School of Health Studies since 2001, is especially noted for his ethics textbook Ethics in Psychology, and for The Psychologists’ Desk Reference that he invented and co-edited. The ethics book is the nation’s best-selling ethics text for psychologists. The desk reference is also widely used by professionals throughout the field. He is also founding editor of the journal Ethics & Behavior.

Before joining Simmons, Koocher was chief psychologist at both Boston’s Children’s Hospital in Boston and the Judge Baker Children’s Center. A distinguished scholar, he is also author of numerous journal articles and books.

The co-educational Simmons School of Health Studies brings together the college's highly respected bachelor's and master's level health-related programs in nutrition, physical therapy, and primary health care nursing; a master's program in health care administration; and a post-baccalaureate dietetic internship program in nutrition.

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