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Alvin Killough, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Psychology
Liberal Arts & Education Department
Office: 104 Sahlstrom Conference Center
Phone: 218-281-8028
E-mail: killo010@umn.edu
Résumé: View Document
Professional Experience Summary:
- Ph.D. Cultural Ecological Behavioral Health Psychologist with 10 years interdisciplinary applied prevention research and instruction experience in the design of social and health science research studies, and in coordinating and conducting research to measure, evaluate and improve individual outcomes within a systems framework (i.e., family, peer, gender, cultural) in education, chronic diseases and potential socio-behavioral and bio-medical pathologies (i.e., substance use and abuse, sickle cell disease, human immunodeficiency virus, and essential hypertension).
- Active consultancy and a demonstrated commitment to capacity building and community health services with a focus on providing technical assistance (i.e., health education / promotion, cultural competency, substance abuse prevention, program proposal review and evaluation), and health disparities (supervise and edit medical education and publication projects for the scientific community).
- Authored / coauthored twenty-nine interdisciplinary publications with two currently In Press, and two In Progress; each related to underserved and understudied populations. Eight publications by mentored students.
- Significant project management experience including providing final oversight on scientific content for project proposals, consultancy with colleagues at a major medical center including supervising and assisting in the training of scientific writers.
- Thirty-five scientific presentations to international, national, regional and local audiences: Continued recognition by peers, community members and students.
- Administrative responsibilities concomitant with new undergraduate degree program development: Document program relationship to institutional/marketplace needs; make decisions regarding degree requirements, curriculum development and course sequence; cultivate and secure external funding resources to support paid internships; and evaluate existing and projected resource sufficiency to provide for a program of high quality.
- Consistent media exposure related to community health and related issues.
Selected Publications :
Referred Journal Articles Published, In Press, or Under-Review
- Killough, A. L., & Killough, E. G. (2008). “I Too Matter” The Peril of Old Crossing: Ethnocentrism, and the Paradigm Clash Between White- and Native Americans. In David Marshall (Ed.) Treaty At Old Crossing: To Invite Enlightened Understanding, Section ll, pp. 16-23.
- Edwards, C.L., Killough, A., Uppal, P., Wood, M., DeCastro, L., McDougald, C., Feliu, M., Rogers, L., Wellington, C., Whitfield, K.E., O’Garo, K., Goli, V., Morgan, K., Harrison, M.O., Byrd, G., Bennett, G.G., Edwards, L., Robinson, E. (In press). Prediction of Mental Health Symptoms From Negative Emotional Reactions to Pain in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Clinical Journal of Pain.
- Edwards, C. L., Feliu, M., Byrd, G., Killough, A., McDougald, C., Rogers, L., Applegate, K. L., Wood, M., Whitfield, K., & Logue, P. The Impact of Hostility on Patients Seeking Behavioral Treatment For Post-MVA Affective Disturbance. (Under Review), Journal of African American Studies
- Edwards, C. L., Primm, A., Johnson, S., Feliu, M., O’Garo, K., Bennett, G., Harrison, O., Robinson, E., Byrd, G., McDougald, C., Killough, A. L. (2006). Reconsideration of The Training of Psychiatrists and Modern Mental Health Professionals: Helping to Make Soup. Journal of the
National Medical Association. 98(9), 1498-1500.
- Killough, A.L., (2006). The Need for SCD Logical Application-based Extensions in Sickle Cell Research Findings to Changing Lives in the Ethnic context. Journal of the National Medical Association 98(4), 658. In response to “Parental Substance Abuse, Reports of Chronic Pain and
Coping in Adult Patients with Sickle Cell Disease” by C. L. Edwards, K. Whitfield, S. Sudhakar, M. Pearce, G. Byrd, M. Wood, M. Feliu, B. Leach-Beale, L. DeCastro, E. Whitworth, M. Abrams, J. Jonassaint, M. Harrison, M. Mathis, L. Scott, S. Johnson, L. Durant, A. Holmes, K. Presnell, G. Bennett, R. Shelby, & E. Robinson. Journal of the National Medical Association 98(3), 420-428.
Book Chapter and Edited Books (Peer Reviewed):
- Killough, A., Edwards, C.L. (2006). Intra-Racial Violence. In Yo Jackson (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology, pp. 272-274. Sage Publications.
- Killough, A., Edwards, C.L. (2006). Powerlessness. In Yo Jackson (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology, pp. 368-369. Sage Publications.
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. Psychology - North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- M.A. Psychology - Industrial / Organization - University of North Carolina at Charolotte
Awards, Distinctions, Honors:
- Marquis Who’s Who in America (2008)
- $3,240 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Grant Award Sponsor (2007)
- Developed psychology curriculum for a Bachelor of Science program for the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus.
Committee Memberships:
- Counseling Search Committee - Chair (2007)
- Diversity Search Committee - Chair (2007)
- Chancellor's "Smoke Free Advisory" Committee (2007)
- Chancellor's "Emergency Response" Committee
- Behavioral Alert System Subcommitee (2007)
Joined UMC November 2006
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