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IBAR's Board of Directors is composed of professional psychologists whose expertise encompasses topics that range from threat assessment, school and workplace violence prevention to criminal profiling and employment screening.

For a biography of any member of the IBAR Board, click the link below to jump down the page to the desired selection:

  Diana Sullivan Everstine
  IBAR Board of Directors

  President, Behaviordata, Inc.
 
A native San Franciscan, Dr. Everstine received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1974. She is an expert on trauma, emergency response, pre-employment screening, and threat assessment. She has co-authored five professional textbooks and has taught courses on the subject.

Dr. Everstine has extensive experience in working with law enforcement agencies in psychological profiling and threat assessment. She has 30 years of experience as a trained hostage negotiator. She has worked for numerous corporations as a consultant for executive search to assess employee threats and risks.

  Louis Everstine
  IBAR Board of Directors
  Vice President, Behaviordata, Inc.

Dr. Everstine received Master’s degrees in Science and Public Health, and his doctorate is in Psychology. He was a graduate student of Philosophy at Oxford University (Linacre College) where he worked and taught in the Department of Social and Administrative Studies. Upon his return to the United States, he worked as a researcher in the Human Factors in Technology Research Group and Center for Research in Management Science at UC Berkeley. He is the author of five psychology textbooks.

Dr. Everstine was a founding faculty member of the California School of Professional Psychology. He is a fellow of
the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, and a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, London.

  Neil S. Hibler
  IBAR Board of Directors
  Director, Special Psychological Services Group

Dr. Hibler is a board-certified clinical psychologist with additional specialization qualification as police psychologist (ABPP) who has been practicing in the field for some thirty years. He was the first police psychologist with the Federal government and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations’ Psychologist as well as Special Agent.

He is the primary consultant for federal law enforcement agencies regarding pre-employment screening, special duty and fitness for duty evaluations. He serves the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and specific agencies to include US Secret Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  Eric W. Hickey
  IBAR Board of Directors

  Director, Center for Forensic Studies
  Alliant International University

Dr. Hickey is the Director of the Center for Forensic Studies at Alliant International University. He has taught various courses in criminal personalities, sex crimes, homicide and psychopathology in universities, colleges, jails and prisons and supervises theses and dissertations involving forensic and criminal psychology.

He has considerable field experience working with the criminally insane, psychopaths, sex offenders and other habitual criminals. He has also served as an adjunct instructor for the American Prosecutor's Research Institute at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina profiling stalkers, cyber-stalkers, criminal personalities and sexual predators.

Internationally recognized for his research on multiple homicide offenders, Dr. Hickey has conducted seminars in several countries including Canada, England, France, and Japan. He has also trained VIP protection specialists in Israel in profiling stalkers.

  James N. Madero
  IBAR Board of Directors

  Professor of Psychology
  California School of Professional Psychology
  Alliant International University, San Diego, CA

Dr. Madero has over 35 years experience as a Clinical Psychologist. He is a specialist in workplace and school violence prevention, and has conducted over 1300 threat assessments of potentially violent individuals for private and public sector companies, organizations, and school systems. Dr Madero received his PhD from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

Dr. Madero has developed “Best Practice” workplace and school violence prevention training programs and materials, and has trained numerous Workplace and School Violence Prevention Teams across the United States. Clients include International Paper, Coca-Cola, Rockwell Automation, GAP Inc., US Department of Energy, Internal Revenue Service, and the Law Firm of Morrison & Foerster.

Dr. Madero has written extensively on workplace and school violence prevention, and is co-author of Preventing Workplace Violence, A Decision Makers Guide.

  David S. Nichols
  IBAR Board of Directors
  Chairman, Scientific Board, Behaviordata, Inc

Dr. Nichols’ interests have focused on structured personality inventories, particularly the MMPI/MMPI-2™. The majority of his more than 30 publications are related to this instrument.

His major publications include the MMPI-2™ Structural Summary (with Roger L. Greene), Psychological Assessment with the MMPI-2™ (with Alan F. Friedman, Richard Lewak, and James T. Webb) and, most recently, Essentials of MMPI-2™ Assessment.

  Ron Stolberg
  IBAR Board of Directors
  Professor, PsyD Program
  California School of Professional Psychology
  Alliant International University, San Diego, CA
 

Dr. Stolberg’s clinical specialty is working with high risk teenagers and their families. He currently teaches courses on personality assessment and the assessment of children and adolescents. His research interests lie primarily with personality measures such as the MMPI-2™ and Rorschach, and how they are currently being used by practicing clinicians. 

Other areas of interest include the “standard of care” practices of psychologists and test utilization. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Winston School whose focus is educating children with learning disabilities. Dr. Stolberg has written extensively in journal articles and books about personality assessment, suicide, and even developed a new scale for the MMPI-2™ to identify suicidal individuals.

  Donald J. Viglione
  IBAR Board of Directors
  Professor of Psychology, Director,
  Clinical PhD Program
  California School of Professional Psychology
  Alliant International University, San Diego, CA

Dr. Viglione has taught and conducted research on the Rorschach and other assessment instruments for over 25 years and has more than 45 publications. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology and a Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment. 

His recent book is entitled Rorschach Coding Solutions: A Reference Guide for the Comprehensive System. In his consultation practice he performs various forensic, clinical, and psycho-educational evaluations.

 

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