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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Nova Southeastern University (NSU) President Ray Ferrero, Jr. has announced the appointment of Ron Chenail, Ph.D., to Vice President for Research, Planning and Governmental Affairs.
Chenail has served as Assistant to the President for Academic Affairs since 1999. He joined NSU in 1989 as an Assistant Professor of Family Therapy and Interim Director of the Institute of Systemic Therapy in the School of Social Sciences , now the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), and in 1991 he was appointed Dean.
Chenail earned a B.A. degree in History from St. Bonaventure University, a M.Ed. in Counseling from the University of Houston, and a Ph.D. in Family Therapy from Nova University.
In addition to his administrative duties, Chenail serves as a professor of Family Therapy at SHSS, and as a dissertation advisor for the Higher Education Leadership doctoral program at NSU's Fischler School of Education and Human Services. He is the editor of The Qualitative Report, an online and open-access journal published at NSU, and the editor-elect of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the flagship journal of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a member of the editorial boards of Sistemas Familiares, Qualitative Research in Psychology, and Counseling, Psychology, and Health.
Chenail has had academic papers published in numerous journals including, American Family Therapy Academy Newsletter, Connessioni, Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, and Family Therapy Magazine. He has authored several books including Medical Discourse and Systemic Frames of Comprehension (Ablex, 1991), Practicing Therapy: Exercises for Growing Therapist (Norton, 1993), written with Anne Rambo, Ph.D., and Anthony Heath, Ph.D, and The Talk of the Clinic: Explorations in the Analysis of Medical and Therapeutic Discourse (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995), a volume he edited with G. H. Morris, Ph.D. of Texas Tech University.
In 2002, Chenail was one of the Associate Editors for Practice Management Forms: Tools for the Business of Therapy, a book published by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. In addition he has made over 90 scholarly presentations at local, state, national and international conferences and meetings.
Nova Southeastern University has more than 23,000 students and is the largest independent institution of higher education in the Southeast, and the 8th largest independent institution nationally.
NSU awards associate's, bachelor's, master's, educational specialist, doctoral, and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields. The university is comprised of undergraduate, graduate and professional schools of arts and sciences, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, optometry, allied health and nursing, medical sciences, dental medicine, law, oceanography, business and entrepreneurship, computer and information sciences, humanities and social sciences, education and human services, and psychology.
The institution also enjoys an excellent reputation for its programs for families offered through the Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies and University School, a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade private, college preparatory school.
