PSYCHOLOGY FACULTY

Les Hemphill, Ph.D. Director of Graduate Psychology Programs
David Greene, Ph.D.Professor
Mary E. Matzeder, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor
Cathy Bogart, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor
Nancy King, Ph.D., Professor
Leif Leaf, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor
Arthur Ross Jr., Ph.D., Adjunct Professor
David Strohm, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology

David Greene, Ph.D.
Professor
greened@stmary.edu
Dr. Greene received his master's degree in Psychology: Counseling and Guidance from the University of Northern Colorado and his doctorate in Human Resource Development from Colorado State University. He spent over fifteen years serving in a variety of public and private counseling agencies, most recently serving as director of adult outpatient and emergency services for Larimer County, Colorado. He became a full-time faculty member at the University of Saint Mary in 1994, and has at one time or another coordinated the Applied Psychology, Psychology and Graduate Psychology programs. He is particularly interested in counseling psychology and social psychology, and has conducted research in the area of chronic illnesses, especially diabetes.

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Les Hemphill, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Psychology Programs
hemphill48@stmary.edu
Dr. Hemphill received his master’s degree in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Tulsa and his doctorate in Counselor Education from Kansas State University. He has worked as a probation counselor with adolescents and as a psychologist at the state prison in Lansing. He has also worked part-time conducting individual and group therapy and providing emergency services for Pawnee Mental Health Services in Concordia, Kansas. He taught full-time at Haskell Indian Junior College (now Haskell Indian Nations University) and at Cloud County Community College. In 1998 he took the position of Director of Advisement and Counseling at Cloud County Community College where he remained until 2008 when he took the position of Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Psychology Programs at the University of Saint Mary’s Overland Park campus. He is particularly interested in developing programs and services that meet the needs of students with psychological and physical disabilities as well as non-traditional and first-generation students.

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Mary E. Matzeder, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
matzederm@stmary.edu
Dr. Matzeder received a M.A. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tulsa and  Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas. Her area of specialization is child clinical psychology and her pre-doctoral internship was completed in child psychology at the University of New Mexico. Other professional interests include:  psychotherapy and evaluations for adults, family and in-home therapy, women's issues and career development.

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Cathy Bogart, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
bogartc@stmary.edu
Dr. Bogart has an M.A. in General Psychology with an emphasis in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She has five years of experience doing individual and couples psychotherapy. Dr. Bogart received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Kansas and did a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Biological Psychology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She has published articles in many journals, including Alcohol, Women & Health, the Journal of Clinical Psychology and Teaching of Psychology.

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Nancy King, Ph.D.
Professor
kingn@stmary.edu
Dr. King received a M.S. in Psychology of Sport/Exercise Physiology and a Ph.D. in Psychology of Sport/Counseling Psychology from the University of Kansas. Dr. King's areas of professional interest include: peak performance in athletes and health psychology. After serving as the counselor and coordinator of drug education at Saint Mary College for three years, she became a full-time faculty member in 1994.

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Leif Leaf, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
leafl@stmary.edu
Dr. Leaf directs the Applied Psychology program at the University of Saint Mary and teaches in the graduate program. His Ph.D. is in Counseling Psychology from Indiana State University. Dr. Leaf also has a M. A. degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology from California State University. He is a licensed psychologist in several states including both Kansas and Missouri. Currently, he is in private practice in Leavenworth and Olathe where he provides psychotherapy services and conducts psychological/neuropsychological evaluations.

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Arthur Ross Jr., Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
rossa@stmary.edu
Dr. Ross received his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and his M.A. in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has taught undergraduate/graduate courses in psychology as an adjunct since 1996. Dr. Ross is a licensed psychologist in Kansas and Missouri and he currently works as a Forensic Team Psychologist at Johnson County Mental Health Center. Other interests include dual diagnosis, addiction and sports psychology.

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David Strohm, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Dr Strohm received his master’s degree in counseling psychology from Chapman University in Orange, California and his doctorate in counselor education and supervision from Kansas State University. He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Saint Mary in 2009. His academic area of specialization and research interests are in career counseling and development, especially in issues of personality and career decision making in adolescents and mid-life career changers. He has worked both as a mental health counselor and a high school counselor in Kansas and Nebraska. He was on the graduate faculty at Emporia State University and taught in the mental health, rehabilitation, school, and college student counseling programs. In addition, he served as the director of Emporia State University’s Counselor Education Clinic which provided mental health counseling services to approximately 500 clients from the surrounding region annually.