Dr. Ronald T. Seel is Executive Director of the Center
for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering at the Virginia Commonwealth
University (VCU) School of Medicine. His primary research interests are
evidence-based practice, clinical decision support, and self-directed
approaches to independent living for people with disabilities. Dr. Seel chairs
the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) Evidence and Practice
Committee. He received the ACRM 2010 Deborah Wilkerson Early Career Award and
2012 Distinguished Member Award. Formerly, Dr. Seel was Executive Director of
the Southeastern Parkinson’s Disease Research Education and Clinical Center and
Associate Director of Research for the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center
at the McGuire VAMC in Richmond, VA. He also served as the O. Wayne Rollins
Director of Brain Injury Research at Shepherd Center. He earned a BA in
Government at the College of William and Mary. His first career was in banking
operations and technology, rising in 5 years to Assistant Vice-President of
Technology Change Design and Implementation at NationsBank Corporation. He
returned to graduate school at VCU and completed his MS and PhD in Counseling
Psychology. He was competitively awarded pre- and post-doctoral fellowships in
Rehabilitation and Neuropsychology at the Medical College of Virginia.
Dr. Paul B. Perrin is a Professor of Data Science and Psychology at the University of Virginia (UVA). He is a faculty member in both the Data Science and Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs. Dr. Perrin received a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida before going on to receive his M.S. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the same university. He accrued an additional doctoral concentration in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Systems Intervention. He has trained clinically at the University of Florida Counseling Center, the Alachua County Crisis Center, and the Spinal Cord Injury and Polytrauma Units at the Tampa Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He completed his doctoral internship as a trauma-track intern at the Baltimore Psychology Internship Consortium, spanning the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship training while being a tenure-track faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, seeing patients at the Center for Psychological Services and Development and supervising doctoral students at a number of safety-net primary care clinics around the Richmond area. Dr. Perrin is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia and continues to supervise clinical psychology doctoral students in community settings.
