Rutgers University Sport Psychology Program
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PROGRAM STAFF
The professional staff of the Rutgers Sport Psychology Program includes individuals who have a considerable number of years working with athletes and teams at the collegiate and professional levels.
These professionals include:
- Robert Monaco ---- As the Team Physician at Rutgers University since 1996, his primary responsibilities are to oversee the medical treatment of athletes for the 30 Division I sports, as well as supervise eleven full-time certified athletic trainers. He is also a clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and assists with directing the school’s Sports Medicine Fellowship Program.
Dr. Monaco holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia University, received his Medical Degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and holds a Master’s in Public Health from Rutgers and UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
- Brian Maher ---- Brian possesses a doctoral degree in psychology from Rutgers University, as well as a master of psychology degree, and undergraduate majors in Psychology and in English. Within the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics , Brian works with student-athletes and coaches in all of the sport psychology program areas. In addition, as a certified school psychologist, Dr. Maher functions as assessment and educational intervention specialist for student-athletes. In addition, he coordinates other psychological services to student-athletes including the Sport Psychology clinic of the Livingston College Counseling Center. He has worked with professional athletes, collegiate student-athletes, high school performers and sport organizations for over nine years including the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox. He also served as psycho-educational coordinator of programs and services for developmentally disabled populations in public school settings.
- Charlie Maher ---- Among other degrees, Dr. Charlie Maher holds a doctorate in psychology. At Rutgers, he is a Professor of Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP), where he teaches and supervises doctoral students in school, clinical and organizational psychology, and at which he is also director of GSAPP's Sport Psychology Concentration. He also is a visiting faculty of the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers. He has worked worldwide for 20 years with professional athletes and teams, college athletes and teams, and other elite athletes including the Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots, San Antonio Spurs and Cleveland Cavaliers. He is the author and editor of numerous books and journal articles. He is a Fellow in many psychological societies including the American Psychological Association and the American Association for Applied and Preventative Psychology as well as being a Fellow of the Academy of Learning and Developmental Disorders.
- Robert Pandina ---- Is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University. He has been a faculty member since 1973 and is President of Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc., the corporation that publishes the Journal of Studies on Alcohol. Dr. Pandina serves as the Director of the Center's Health and Human Development Laboratory, which is conducting a longitudinal study of alcohol and drug using behavior, its etiology, and its consequences. He has received grants from several sources including the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the New Jersey State Department of Health. His research interests include psychopharmacology and neuropsychology, experimental and clinical; alcohol and drug dependence longitudinal studies; forensic psychology; and sports psychology. Dr. Pandina serves on several advisory and editorial boards and serves as a Scholar in Residence at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
In addition, doctoral students who are affiliated with the Sport Psychology Concentration of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP) also are involved in various aspects of the program, always under the supervision of program staff.
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