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Our doors are open to any qualified professional interested in joining our growing community. As a National Association of Psychological and Medical Biopsychosocial Clinicians member, you’ll have exposure to a vibrant network along with a wealth of knowledge and experience you can’t find anywhere else. Our community is exclusive, but incredibly welcoming. Check out the options below to learn more.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIP
NAPMBC grants organizational memberships to schools, school districts, and sports clubs, teams, or athletic organizations. We provide group training to your organization’s coaches, trainers, athletic directors, teachers, nurses, and other individuals as appropriate. Upon completion of the training your organization will be granted NAPMBC organizational certification and membership. This membership confers official recognition that your staff understand concussive and traumatic brain injuries and will respond to any concussive or traumatic brain injuries according to their level of training, the state of the science, and in compliance with all state, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Any staff member can pursue individual certification per the NAPMBC requirements stated elsewhere on this website. It is important to note that organizational certification does not automatically provide individual certification.
CERTIFICATION
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SAN DIEGO
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VAIL/ASPEN
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RESOURCES
ADVISORY BOARD

Debora Scheffel, Ph.D.
Dr. Debora Scheffel was appointed in October, 2013, as Dean of the School of Education, at Colorado Christian University. Previous to her appointment at Colorado Christian, she was Dean of Research at University of the Rockies, and Dean of the School of Education at Jones International University. Previously, she held a tenured professorship at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, served as the Director of Competitive Grants and Awards/Literacy Grants and Initiatives at the Colorado Department of Education, and served as special assistant to the Colorado Commissioner of Education in literacy.
Dr. Scheffel has an extensive background in assessment, serving as the Director of Academic Assessment at two universities, and has been a visiting scholar at the United States Air Force Academy in assessment. She earned a Master’s degree from the University of Denver in special education, a PhD in communication sciences and disorders from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and completed a National Institutes of Mental Health postdoctoral fellowship from the University of California, San Diego in cognitive science. Her research interests are in reading and oral language development and disabilities in children, and education reform policy. She has served as a national consultant in school reform efforts related to literacy since 2012.
Debora has worked in six states in a variety of higher education contexts, and is a published author in literacy, special education, and higher education assessment. Her professional affiliations include the International Neuropsychological Society, the International Dyslexia Association, and the Council for Exceptional Children. She was elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in November, 2010 and served through January, 2017 representing the 6th Congressional District. She was re-elected to the Colorado State Board of Education in February, 2018 to complete a retiring member’s term representing the 4th Congressional District. She has served on the editorial board of Learning Disabilities Research and Practice and currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She is passionate about quality public education, a range of available educational options, and knows the value of exemplary teachers, great school leaders, and parents who best know their children’s educational needs and potential.

Paul Prentice, Ph.D.
Dr. Paul Prentice is Professor of Economics and Business at Colorado Technical University. He earned his BA in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Connecticut.
Paul served as the Chief Macroeconomist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture under President Reagan. In 1985, he left the federal government to found Farm Sector Economics, a consulting firm specializing in macroeconomic linkages to agriculture. Dr. Prentice has also served as a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Dr. Prentice has taught Economics and Finance at The Vanguard School, at Colorado College, and at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
In addition to teaching Economics and Business at Colorado Tech, he currently serves as:
Fellow of the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University
Associate Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute
Senior Fellow at the Independence Institute
Advisory Board for the Bastiat Society of Colorado Springs
Board of Directors for Farm Credit of Southern Colorado.
Paul has also served on the Board of Directors of the Urban League of the Pikes Peak Region; and on the Board of Directors of the Limited Government Forum.
Dr. Prentice has been instrumental in the start-up and operation of three successful businesses:
Farm Sector Economics, Inc. (Colorado Springs, CO)
Bio-Economic Research Associates (Cambridge, MA)
Blue Sun Biodiesel, LLC (Golden, CO)

J. Stephen Kirkpatrick Ph.D.
Stephen Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., has devoted the first 40 years of his career to industrial and organizational psychology as a consultant to Fortune 100 businesses and not-for-profit associations. He is currently President and CEO of Kirkpatrick & Associates, consultants in leadership and executive management, as well as Chief Learning Officer with CorrValues, LLC.
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Since 1986, he has worked as an internal and external consultant on various types of assignments in banking, telecommunications, financial services, pharmaceuticals, corrections/law enforcement and high technology. For instance, he led the redesign of the credit training program at a major money center bank on Wall Street and ran the operations training group in Denver for a global brokerage firm.
For seventeen years as a leader of external consulting firms, he served as a trusted advisor to businesses of all sizes across both the manufacturing and service sectors. From 2008 to 2012 he was Dean of the School of Organizational Leadership and Vice President for the University of the Rockies, an online graduate school operated as a subsidiary of the publicly traded company Bridgepoint Education, Inc.
Dr. Kirkpatrick dedicated thirteen years to not-for-profit associations in the health field, serving as a training and development manager, fundraiser, and internal consultant on organizational design and volunteer recruitment, selection and training. During this period, he published numerous training manuals on varied topics related to the funding, management, and operation of associations at all levels from the local chapter to the national organization.
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Dr. Kirkpatrick’s client list includes AT&T, Chemical Banking Corp (now part of JP Morgan Chase), HSBC USA and Canada, Fluke Networks, CoBank, Great West Life & Annuities, Élan Pharmaceuticals, Century Link, Gates Rubber Co., Abbott Laboratories, NORTEL, Spectranetics, United Technologies, and Sony Corporation of America.
His clients among not-for-profit associations include the County Sheriffs of Colorado, The American Numismatic Association, The Society of Actuaries, The National Kidney Foundation, the American Lung Association, The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Government clients include the United States Department of Defense (Computer and Electronics Procurement Command), the Colorado Department of Transportation, and Eagle County, Colorado.
Steve has authored or co-authored 7 books and more than 30 refereed professional journal articles, numerous training manuals, a book-length handbook on strategic planning and evaluation of training and development, and a graduate-level textbook on research design and multivariate statistical analysis.
Steve is Past President (2006) of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development.
His education includes a BA with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Delaware (mathematics), and three graduate degrees from the University of Arizona, Tucson: a master’s degree in mathematics and statistics, a master’s degree in counseling and human resources, and a Ph.D. in psychology (counseling and educational).
A native of West Virginia, Steve resides in Wheat Ridge, CO, with his wife, Kathy Plummer, RNC, NP, a nurse clinician. Their leisure pursuits include extensive reading, travel, golf and photography.

Stein Bronsky MD.
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