Our Board of Directors

The HPEE Board of Directors represents professionals from a variety of disciplines and domains. The nine-member Board helps shape the direction and future of the Society. Members serve three-year terms and three new members are elected annually.

2007-2008 HPEE Board of Directors
	Sheryl Bishop, Ph.D. University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas, USA   Term: 2005-2008   Sheryl Bishop is an Associate Professor, Social Psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, curriculum director for the new Space Life Sciences Ph.D. and a faculty of the International Space University. She has investigated human performance and group dynamics in numerous extreme environments, including deep cavers, mountain climbers, desert survival groups, polar expeditioners and Antarctic winter-over groups and various simulations of isolated, confined environments for space. She is a founding member of HPEE serving as Senior Editor for the Journal, as well as a Contributing Editor for Life Sciences for Habitation (formerly the Journal of Life Support and Biospheric Sciences) and Review Editor for the Journal of Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.
	Peter Hancock, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA   Term: 2005-2008   Peter Hancock is Provost Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, the Institute for Simulation and Training, and at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He is the Principal Investigator on the recently awarded Multi-Disciplinary University Research Initiative, in which he will oversee $5 Million of funded research on stress, workload, and performance. His current experimental work concerns the evaluation of behavioral response to high-stress conditions. His theoretical works concerns human relations with technology and the possible futures of this symbiosis.
	Jennifer Boyd, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California, USA   Term: 2005-2008   Jennifer Boyd is a clinical/community psychologist and psychiatric epidemiologist. She is currently an assistant adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Her interests include the effects of culture and social climate on the experience and detection of stress and distress during space missions and other extreme environments.
	Alexander Alonso, Ph.D. American Institutes for Research Washington, DC, USA   Term: 2006-2009   Alexander Alonso is a Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR)’s center for Workforce Analysis and Human Factors (WAHF) conducting organizational analyses, designing and evaluating training programs, and conducting survey research targeted towards minorities and cross-cultural issues. Prior to joining AIR, he served as a Research Assistant at Florida International University’s Department of Psychology, and served as a Training & Development Manager for an international insurance provider and the Chilean national airline in the western hemisphere over the course of the last seven years. Dr. Alonso was recently awarded his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at Florida International University in April of 2003.
	Lance Annicelli, Maj (USAF), BSC Office of the Surgeon General United States Air Force   Term: 2006-2009   Lance Annicelli is currently assigned to the Headquarters Air Staff as the Associate Chief, Force Management Division, Office of the Surgeon General, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, DC. His present duties and responsibilities include recommending policy and executing Air Force Medical Service Force Developmental programs for over 11,900 medical officers. Previously, he received his commission in the Naval Reserves before transferring to the United States Air Force in 1994, where he served as Flight Commander, Therapeutic Services for the 14th Medical Group, Columbus Mississippi. He has also served as the Chief, Laboratory Services at the 6th Medical Group at MacDill Air Force Base, as well as Flight Commander, 14th Physiological Training Unit supporting pilot training at the 14th Flying Training Wing. He also was chosen to attend graduate school as part of the Air Force Institute of Technology’s (AFIT) civilian institutions program, and received his Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology in 2003 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Major Annicelli has nine patents currently under consideration in the fields of aircrew protection and human performance. His novel concepts and award winning research has earned him a seat as an elite member of military officers providing strategic planning for the Air Force Human Effectiveness Directorate. He has won numerous military service awards.
	James Clement, PE., MBA Mission Operations Directorate NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, Texas, USA   Term: 2006-2009   James L. Clement, Jr. is the Chief of the Operations Division in the Mission Operations Directorate at NASA Johnson Space Center. The Operations Division is responsible for maintaining configuration control for the Space Shuttle and Space Station procedures and for preparing the Flight Plans which are executed by the crew on all Shuttle missions and on the International Space Station. He has been a flight controller in Mission Control for 60 shuttle missions. Prior to joining NASA, he served in the US Air Force as a pilot, worked in the medical products industry, and in the aerospace industry. As a reservist he conducted numerous studies for the Air Force. Recently he has participated in several psychology studies aimed at characterizing the group dynamics among mission control personnel, as part of an effort to improve training and management practices.
	Barrett S. Caldwell, Ph.D. Industrial Engineering / Aeronautics and Astronautics Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA   Term: 2007-2010   Prof. Barrett S. Caldwell holds a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in both Industrial Engineering and Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. He also serves as the Director of the NASA-funded Indiana Space Grant Consortium. His background includes two Bachelor of Science degrees (1985), one in Aeronautics and Astronautics and one in Humanities (Psychology), from MIT and a Master of Arts (1987) and a PhD (1990) in Social Psychology from the University of California-Davis. Prof. Caldwell's professional contributions to human performance in extreme and challenging environments date back to the 1980s. His graduate experience includes privacy requirements for the Freedom Space Station design, participation in a 1987 conference on Antarctica and other extreme environment analogues for human performance in long duration space flight, and a 1990 dissertation focused on group dynamics of park rangers in isolated US national park sites. Prof. Caldwell has been involved with HPEE since its inception in the mid 1990s.
	Michael Lombardi Ocean Opportunity   Term: 2007-2010   Michael Lombardi consults in the ocean science and technology community, and is an explorer, author, and photographer. He has an extensive professional and exploration diving background with experience in several modes of diving including using all gas mixtures and advanced techniques to safely support science operations in all habitats to depths in excess of 300 feet. His diverse background has included involvement in projects with institutions around the globe including several US university marine programs, the Office of Naval Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Undersea Research Center (NURC), and the US Army Corps of Engineers. Michael serves on the membership committee for the American Academy of Underwater Sciences and is a contributing author for "The Summit Journal," where he chronicles his exploration projects. In 2003, Michael started a non-profit organization, Ocean Opportunity, to incubate his exploration interests.
	Jennifer H. Patterson, M.S. Pacific Graduate School of Psychology Palo Alto, California, USA   Term: 2007-2010   Jennifer H. Patterson holds an M.S. in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, CA, where she is currently a Doctoral Candidate and holds a fellowship through the National Center on the Psychology of Terrorism. Jennifer currently works for the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System and serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments. Jennifer also provides program development services for national organizations; is a lead instructor, program advisor and past Program Director for the Palo Alto Medical Reserve Corps; has published on topics including mass casualty disaster, trauma response, health psychology, and performance psychology. She also provides performance development/consultation services for individuals and teams working in high-risk professions and sports. Jennifer also serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the United States Apnea Association, where she works with a team of diving professionals to address organizational as well as competition, safety and performance needs of apnea divers (freedivers) across the nation.