Michael D. Knox , Ph.D. - USF Center for HIV Education and Research

Michael D. Knox earned his Ph.D. in psychology in 1974 from The University of Michigan. He joined the USF faculty in 1986 and currently holds appointments in five academic departments. Since 1997 he has held the title of Distinguished University Professor at USF. His biography is included in the latest editions of Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and Who’s Who in American Education.

Knox, a licensed clinical psychologist, is a tenured Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy at USF's Florida Mental Health Institute. He is also a Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine and Distinguished Professor of Global Health in the College of Public Health. In the College of Arts and Sciences, Knox has appointments as Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Distinguished Professor of Aging Studies. He serves on dissertation committees and has taught courses including "Honors Seminar in Applied Ethics", "Death and Dying", and "HIV and Mental Health".

Dr. Knox is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Fellow status in both organizations is granted "in recognition of outstanding and distinguished contributions to the science and profession of psychology." In 2005 he was inducted into Sigma Xi, the international honor society of research scientists and engineers.

Professor Knox also serves on the faculty of the India Center for Health, HIV/AIDS Research and Training and traveled to India in 2003 to speak and to dedicate two new educational programs associated with USF. He was Co-Chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research's (amfAR) 16th National HIV/AIDS Update Conference held in March 2004. In 1999 he served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford in England as part of a sabbatical assignment related to end-of-life care.

Dr. Knox has been responsible for more than $35 million in grants and other external funding to USF. He has developed grant-funded collaborations with the USF Departments of Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Criminology and with the USF College of Public Health. He has developed grant-funded consortia with the University of California at San Francisco, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of Puerto Rico, University of the Virgin Islands, Florida A & M University, and Emory University.

As founder and Director of the USF Center for HIV Education and Research Dr. Knox oversees an annual budget of well over $3 million. Since 1988, the USF Center has provided continuing education to more than 300,000 health and mental healthcare professionals and students. Dr. Knox is currently the recipient of a National AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) Grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services. He directs the Florida/Caribbean AETC.

In 1995, and again in 1996, Dr. Knox was elected President of the USF Faculty Senate. With over 35,000 students and 1,700 faculty, USF is the 13th largest university in the nation. He was elected Chair of the Advisory Council of Faculty Senates for 1997/1998. This organization represented all ten state universities and provided consultation to the Chancellor and Florida Board of Regents regarding academic issues.

For nine years, until 1995, Dr. Knox headed the only academic department of community mental health in the United States. As Department Chair, he directed an 80 member staff and oversaw an annual budget of $2.3 million.

Professor Knox has published and presented widely, primarily on the topics of AIDS, community mental health, and planning for death. His work has been featured on the front covers of the journal AIDS Patient Care and NIH News & Features, a publication of the National Institutes of Health. He is the senior editor and contributor to HIV and Community Mental Healthcare, a book published in 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. This textbook has been favorably reviewed by JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association.

His work is characterized by long-standing leadership positions in the field of community mental health, including service on the Board of Directors of the National Council of Community Mental Health Centers and advisory positions to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. In addition, he chaired the first Steering Committee for the National Registry of Community Mental Health Services and has conducted site reviews nationwide for the federal Center for Mental Health Services.

Additionally, Dr. Knox is Chair and CEO of the US Peace Memorial Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity which he founded in 2005. He is also editor of the US Peace Registry. In 2007, he was awarded the Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. The award is presented annually by Psychologists for Social Responsibility and recognized him for more than 4 decades of outstanding contributions to peace and humanitarian assistance.

Before joining the USF faculty, Dr. Knox was Director of the Western Tidewater Mental Health Center in Virginia. He also served on the faculty of the Eastern Virginia Medical School and on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Virginia Health Systems Agency. He has held a variety of leadership positions in national and state professional organizations and has been honored many times for his work.

In 1995, he co-authored LAST WISHES: A Handbook to Guide Your Survivors. The book has been favorably reviewed by JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association, the British medical journal The Lancet, and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as newspapers nationwide.

Dr. Knox lives in Temple Terrace, Florida. John, his eldest son, is a computer and electrical engineer working for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) in Austin, Texas. His son James is a student at the University of Florida studying civil engineering.

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MICHAEL D. KNOX, PH.D.
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