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.
McDaniel was raised in the American South, where her father was a physician and her mother was a homemaker.
[1] She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979.
[1] At the University of Rochester, McDaniel is the Dr. Laurie Sands Distinguished Professor of Families and Health for the Department of Psychiatry.
[3][4] 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.