Susan H. McDaniel

Susan H. McDaniel is an American psychologist and the Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families & Health at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. She was the 2016 president of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Biography McDaniel was raised in the American South, where her father was a physician and her mother was a homemaker. She attended college at Duke University. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. McDaniel completed her internship at the University of Texas Medical Branch and completed postdoctoral training at the Texas Research Institute for Mental Sciences.

During her campaign for APA president, McDaniel established two priorities for her term: preparing psychologists as leaders and integrating psychology into provision of other types of health care.