Ron Allen, Ph.D., BCBA
Ron Allen received his Doctorate in Psychology (emphasis in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior) from the University of Florida in 1990. He is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D), and has published and spoken widely regarding experimentation from laboratory and applied settings. After graduation Dr. Allen founded and directed the Swansea Wood School and the Meadowridge Behavioral Health Center. He is currently the Director of the Ivy Street School in Brookline, MA, a residential school for adolescents with acquired brain injury and other neurological disorders. Additionally, he is a Graduate Professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at Simmons College and an Advisory for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. His interests include the analysis of complex stimulus relations, schedule-induced phenomena, behavior following brain injury, and radical behaviorism.
Marc Branch, Ph.D.
After receiving a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University, Marc Branch earned a Masters Degree at Arizona State University in 1970. There he received valuable instruction from the likes of Thom Verhave, Aaron Brownstein, Gil Sherman, Fred Hegge, Peter Killeen and John Falk, who provided his first exposure to behavioral pharmacology. In 1972 he received his Ph. D. under the direction of Lewis R. Gollub, B. F. Skinner's last Ph.D. student, at the University of Maryland, College Park, and while there he conducted his first research in behavioral pharmacology. Next he spent a year at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, under the mentorship of James McKearney. There, he was afforded the opportunity to interact with the eminent behavioral pharmacologists Peter Dews, Roger Kelleher, and Bill Morse. He took a position at the University of Florida in 1973 and has remained there since as part of the Behavior Analysis specialty group. He continues to conduct research on basic issues in behavior analysis and in behavioral pharmacology.
Gretchen Dittrich, M.A., BCBA
Gretchen Dittrich is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with over twelve years of experience in the field. She is a doctoral student in the department of Behavior Analysis at Simmons College, and received a masters of science degree in Behavior Analysis from Northeastern University. Her research interests include behavioral medicine, verbal behavior, and increasing social skills in individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Gina Green, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Gina Green received a PhD in Psychology (Analysis of Behavior) from Utah State University in 1986 following undergraduate and master's degree studies at Michigan State University. She has been a faculty member in Behavior Analysis and Therapy at Southern Illinois University; Director of Research at the New England Center for Children in Southborough, Massachusetts; Associate Scientist at the E.K. Shriver Center for Mental Retardation in Waltham, Massachusetts; and Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Currently Dr. Green is the Executive Director of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, a consultant in private practice in San Diego, and a lecturer in Special Education at San Diego State University. She has authored numerous publications on the treatment of individuals with developmental disabilities and brain injuries, as well as the experimental analysis of behavior. Dr. Green co-edited the books Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism and Making a Difference: Behavioral Intervention for Autism. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of several professional journals in developmental disabilities and behavior analysis. Dr. Green also serves on the Board of Trustees and the Autism Advisory Group of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies and the advisory boards of several autism programs and organizations. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst-Doctoral, former president of the Association for Behavior Analysis and the California Association for Behavior Analysis, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, a founding Director of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Council for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, and the Association for Behavior Analysis. Psychology Today named her "Mental Health Professional of the Year" in 2000. In 2005 she received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland for her work in autism. Dr. Green lectures and consults widely on autism and related disorders, behavioral research, and effective interventions for people with disabilities.
F. Charles Mace, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Dr. F. Charles (Bud) Mace is the Unicorn Children's Foundation Professor of Psychology and the Executive Director of the Autism Institute of Mailman Segal Institute at Nova Southeastern University. Prior to joining the Nova faculty, Professor Mace held faculty positions at Lehigh University, Rutgers University, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the University of Wales and the University of Southern Maine. At each university, Professor Mace developed clinical programs for children with developmental disabilities that served as nationally recognized sites for research and post-graduate training. Professor Mace has published over 100 research papers and book chapters and his work is among the most highly cited in behavioral psychology. Five of his papers are ranked as citation classics, having been cited well over 100 times each. In 2004, he was ranked 6th among all applied behavior analysts in research productivity for the period 1992-2001. His research has concentrated on the functional analysis of severe behavior disorders, behavioral momentum, and the Matching Law. In 1995, he received the prestigious Don F. Hake Award for Translational Research from the American Psychological Association. Considered a career achievement award, Professor Mace is the youngest person to receive the Hake award. Professor Mace is the Past-President of the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior and a Fellow of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. He also serves on the editorial boards of several leading research journals and he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) from 1999-2001. Currently, Professor Mace is the Editor for Translational Research for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. He has been the principal investigator for several state and federal research grants including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the United States Office of Special Education Research, and the Welsh Office for Research and Development.
Russell Maguire, Ph.D., BCBA
Dr. R.W. Maguire is a Behavior Analyst with 25+ years of applied and research experience. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Behavior Analysis at Simmons College. Dr. Maguire holds a BA in Psychology, a MA in Applied Behavior Analysis and a PhD in Experimental Psychology and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Dr. Maguire is a published researcher and frequent presenter at local, state and national professional conferences, particularly in the areas of stimulus control and stimulus equivalence.
