Appointments and Awards
Academic Appointments
| 8/1993 – present | Professor-in-residence, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, LosAngeles Director, Global Center for Children and Families, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1/2005 – 12/2014 | Bat-Yaacov Professor of Child Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences,Director, Global Center for Children and Families. University of CA, Los Angeles |
| 3/1984 – 7/1993 | Professor of Clinical Psychology, Associate Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology, Division of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York Center, New York; Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York |
| 9/1978 ‑ 6/1984 | Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles |
| 9/1977 ‑ 9/1978 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University |
Committee Appointments
| 2013-2015 | Co-organizer, eKids: use of technologies for research on and with children and youth. Jacob’s Foundation. |
| 2013 | Member, the Suicide Prevention Research Prioritization Task Force, National Institute of Mental Health |
| 2013 | Summit on Shared Research Priorities, Research Frontiers in HIV, HIV-related Malignancies and TB, National Institute of Mental Health, Durban, South Africa |
| 2013-2016 | Member, Institute of Medicine – National Research Council, Forum on Promoting Children’s Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health |
| 2013-2017 | Member, National Advisory Council, National Institute of Mental Health |
| 2010-2014 | Member, President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, Scientific Advisory Board,, Office of the U.S. AIDS Global Coordinator |
| 2009 | Member, Office of AIDS Research Panel |
| 2007-2011 | Peers for Progress, Peer Support Around the World |
| 2007-2011 | Member, National Advisory Council, National Institute of Drug Abuse |
| 2007-2011 | Advisory Board Member, Council for Training in Evidence-Based Behavioral Practice |
| 2007 | Member, Advisory Summit, X PRIZE Foundation. |
| 2006-2013 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Harvard University Center for AIDS Research |
| 2006 | Member, Special Panel on the Mental Health First Aid Standards Project: Suicidal Behavior, University of Melbourne, Australia. |
| 2005-2014 | Program Director, AIDS in Asia, UCLA AIDS Institute. |
| 2005- | Member, Center Director’s Working Group, National Institute of Mental Health. |
| 2004-2005 | Society for Prevention Research (Program Chair, 2005 Annual Meeting; Board Member; Abstract Chair for 2004 Annual Meeting). |
| 2004 | Member, NIMH AIDS Orphans Research Agenda Group. |
| 2004 | Co-Chair, Emerging Adulthood Group, National Institute for Drug Abuse. |
| 2004-2009 | Planning Committee, International HIV Impact Conference. |
| 2004-2005 | Member, Special Panel on Prevention, Management, and Control of Tuberlculosis; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. |
| 2002-2004 | Member, American Psychological Association Ad Hoc Committee, Psychology and AIDS. |
| 2001-2005 | Board Member, Executive Committee on Planning, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 2001-2008 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Social Development Research Group, Columbia University, New York, NY. |
| 2001-2010 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Intervention and Prevention Research on HIV and Drug Abuse, Columbia University, New York, NY. |
| 2001-2005 | Member, Task Force, University AIDS Research Program, State of California |
| 2000-2003 | Advisory Board Member, California-Mexico AIDS Initiative Advisory Group. |
| 1999-2005 | Associate Director, UCLA AIDS Institute. |
| 1999-2002 | Advisory Board Member, World Congress on Medicine and Health, Hanover, Germany. |
| 1999-2001 | Member, Management Group for the development of the Los Angeles County Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS Services. |
| 1999-2009 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Vulnerable Populations Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1998-2000 | Co-chair, NIMH Workgroup on Processes for Changing People’s Behavior,Bethesda, MD. |
| 1998-1999 | Co-Chair, Coordinating Committee, National Conference on Early Detection, Bethesda, MD. |
| 1998-2000 | Member, University wide AIDS Research Program, AIDS Prevention Evaluation Advisory Committee, Treatment and Care Advisory Committee. |
| 1998-2010 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, New Haven, CT. |
| 1997-2001 | Member, Advisory Board, UCLA Center for AIDS Research. |
| 1998-2000 | Project ACCESS (Adolescents Connected to Care, Evaluation, and Special Services) Advisory Board, Adolescent HIV/AIDS Research Network (AMHARN), New York, NY. |
| 1997-2000 | National Institute of Mental Health Workgroup on Indo-U.S. Collaboration on HIV/STD Prevention, New Delhi, India. |
| 1997-2000 | Program Committee, National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS Executive Committee, Washington, DC. |
| 1997-1999 | Member, Collaborative Group on Women and HIV/AIDS, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services, Office on Women’s Health and Office of HIV/AIDS Policy. |
| 1996-2001 | Member, Prevention Science Working Group, Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. |
| 1996-2000 | Consultant, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Puerto Rico. |
| 1996-2009 | Associate Director, AIDS Training Program, University of California, Los Angeles (Director, Oscar Grusky, Ph.D., Sociology). |
| 1996-2005 | Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Center for AIDS Intervention Research Milwaukee, WI. |
| 1996-1998 | Consultant, Israel Orbach, Ph.D., Bar-Ilan University, Israel. |
| 1996-2001 | Member, NIMH Consortium on Families and HIV and AIDS. |
| 1995-2000 | Consultant, National Archive and Analytical Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Data, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago. |
| 1995-1996 | Member, Consortium on Technology Transfer of Innovations, National Institute of Mental Health. |
| 1994-1997 | Consultant, Larkin Street Youth Center, San Francisco, CA, providing comprehensive services to HIV+ youth, Special Projects of National Significance, Human Resources Services Agency. |
| 1994-1995 | Member, Centers for Disease Control Review of Drug Abuse and School Health. |
| 1993-1997 | Advisory Board Member, UCLA AIDS Institute. |
| 1993-1996 | Member, Behavioral Research Methods in HIV Research Panel, National Institute of Mental Health. |
| 1993-1994 | Behavioral Methods Consortium, National Institute of Mental Health. |
| 1992-1994 | Technical Advisory Group, AIDSCAP, Family Health International. |
| 1989-1993 | Board of Directors, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, State of New York. |
| 1988-1993 | Committee for Protection of Human Participants, American Psychological Association. |
| 1988-1991 | Planning and Executive Committees: First and Second International Conferences on HIV and Homeless Youths. |
| 1987-1989 | Committee on Ethics, Office for the Protection on Research Rights for Children, National Institutes of Health. |
| 2003-2005 | California Licensed Psychologists’ Association, Founding Fellow |
| 2000 | American Association for the Advancement of Science (1986-1987) |
| 1992- | American Public Health Association |
| 1980- | American Psychological Association, Member of Division 12 (Clinical), 18 (Psychological Study of Social Issues), and Fellow in Division 27 (Community Psychology) |
| 1985 – | Society for Research in Child Development |
| 1984 – | American Association of Orthopsychiatry, Program Committee 1984‑1988, Institute Committee, 1987-1988 |
| 1987-2000 | Society for Research on Adolescents |
Awards
In addition to awards for an outstanding body of work in prevention science [1990 Excellence in prevention of HIV, American Medical Association Award: HIV prevention among runaway and homeless youths], Dr. Rotheram’s initiatives include award-winning programs to train elementary school children in assertiveness and social skills (1986 Exemplary prevention model, American Psychological Association: Assertiveness training with elementary school children.) and an intervention to help hospital Emergency Room personnel prevent suicide in recent runaway youth (1986 Outstanding Mental Health Project for Children and Adolescents, New York State Office of Mental Health: Evaluation and triage of suicidal runaways. )
Also recognized as exceptional are her programs for teens: in addition to several exemplary model designations by the CDC and APA, the American Medical Association applauded Dr. Rotheram’s HIV prevention in runaways and homeless youth (1990 Excellence in prevention of HIV, American Medical Association Award: HIV prevention among runaway and homeless youths)Dr. Rotheram’s programs for HIV prevention have changed the way professionals and paraprofessionals serve at-risk populations. Nine of her interventions have been included in CDC’s Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness. With this recognition comes the reality that her work becomes the industry gold standard for care because they represent more than 10% of the interventions encouraged through the CDC’s Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions (DEBI) strategy.
While pushing to bring science to vulnerable families throughout the world, Dr. Rotheram has also been recognized for making science approachable to families in her own community (2007 Family Coaching Clinics Project—one of three winders in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Competition for Disruptive Innovations).
Bringing change to the world of psychology and prevention also means training subsequent generations of clinicians and researchers, and Mary Jane has twice been named an outstanding mentor (2009 Outstanding Mentor Award- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and 2006 Outstanding Research Mentor Award, University of California, Los Angeles, presented by the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.
The list below details some of the awards that Dr. Rotheram has received during her career: 2012 CFAK Annual Meeting Senior Researcher Award –American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry https://www.aacap.org 2010 Bennett Lecturer in Prevention Science – Pennsylvania State University http://prevention.psu.edu/events/bennettlecture.html 2009 Outstanding Mentor Award– American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
This list below details some of the awards that Dr. Rotheram has received during her career:
| 2012 | CFAK Annual Meeting Senior Researcher Award –American Academy of Child andAdolescent Psychiatry https://www.aacap.org/ |
| 2010 | Bennett Lecturer in Prevention Science – Pennsylvania State University http://prevention.psu.edu/events/bennettlecture.html |
| 2009 | Outstanding Mentor Award- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |
| 2007 | Family Coaching Clinics Project – one of three winners in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Competition for Disruptive Innovations https://www.aacap.org |
| 2007 | Distinguished Leader in Psychology and AIDS Award, presented by the American Psychological Association Committee on Psychology and AIDS http://www.apa.org/pi/aids/copa/ |
| 2006 | Outstanding Research Mentor Award, University of California, Los Angeles, presented by the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences http://www.psychiatry.ucla.edu |
| 2005 | International Collaborative Prevention Research Award, Society for Prevention Research, for outstanding contributions to the field of prevention science http://www.preventionresearch.org |
| 2001 | Exemplary prevention programs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Compendium of HIV Prevention Interventions with Evidence of Effectiveness: 1) Street Smart, 2) Teens Linked to Care, 3) Project LIGHT, 4) CLEAR, and 5) Adolescent Project Light http://www.cdc.gov |
| 1995 | Exemplary HIV/AIDS prevention program, Program Archive on Sexuality, Health, and Adolescence (PASHA), Sociometrics Corporation, Los Altos, CA http://www.socio.com/pasha.php |
| 1990 | Excellence in prevention of HIV, American Medical Association Award: HIV prevention among runaway and homeless youths http://www.ama-assn.org/ama |
| 1986 | Outstanding Mental Health Project for Children and Adolescents, New York State Office of Mental Health: Evaluation and triage of suicidal runaways http://www.omh.ny.gov |
| 1986 | Exemplary prevention model, American Psychological Association: Assertiveness training with elementary school children https://www.apa.org |
| 1984 | Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria (declined due to political coup) http://exchanges.state.gov/us/program/fulbright-us-scholar-program |
| 1973-1975 | National Institute of Mental Health Fellow, University of Southern California http://www.nimh.nih.gov/index.shtml |