Reginaldo G. Garcia has over 30 years of experience in clinical psychology, public health, research, and educational administration. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder, which utilizes the scientist-practitioner model. Garcia has worked in various clinical settings and conducted research with organizations like RAND. Currently he holds several roles related to public health research and community-based participatory research at the University of Colorado Denver.

1. Reginaldo G. Garcia, Ph.D.
2558 East Drive
Monte Vista, CO 81144
719-580-3117
rggarcia@amigo.net
Curriculum Vitae
Overview of Education, Training and Experience
I would like to start with an overview of my qualifications followed by a detailed
description. I am a clinical psychologist successful in careers in clinical and
consulting psychology, public health program administration and research, and
educational program leadership.
The University of Colorado Boulder where I went to school is where the Scientist-
Practitioner model of training (also known as the “Boulder Model”) in applied
psychology was established and accredited by the American Psychological
Association. The overarching goal of this model is to educate and train
psychologists competent in scientific, research and applied clinical psychology.
Today, it continues as a training model in applied clinical psychology in about 75%
of doctor of psychology training. My education and training based on this model
continued at TRIMS in Houston. I trained alongside and in collaboration with
physicians, clinical social workers, nurses, OT, PT and support staff.
My professional practice careers in clinical psychology have followed the scientist-
practitioner training I had, and it eventually became second-nature. In everyday life
my provider practice has been multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches to
individualized patient care and plans. I have been successful and enjoyed my work
as a provider in medical, surgical and psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinic
practices.
I have also enjoyed a successful provider work history in community mental health
centers, residential treatment centers and school-based settings. I have provided
psychological services mostly on an individual patient basis but I have also done
couples, family and group psychotherapy. The patients that I have treated over the
years represent a wide range of psychopathology, developmental, personality and
medical problems. I am skilled in differential diagnosis and the use of DSM and ICD
diagnostic coding. I am culturally competent in assessing how the way that people
live their lives is contributory to physical problems requiring medical care services
and how their physical problems also give rise to psychological problems that
require psychotherapy.

2. Reginaldo G. Garcia, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae March 2015
One of the satisfactions that I discovered in my life was that so much of my
education, training and practice was something that could be transferred to other
lines of work and career paths. Although I had to learn a lot in these new careers,
being a clinical psychologist helped and I never had to start from scratch. This
experience is not unique to me. If I am interviewed and there is interest, I would be
happy to discuss this transfer of core competencies.
Education and Training
• Regis College, Denver, Colorado (transferred after sophomore year)
• B.A., U. Colorado Boulder, Colorado, Psychology
• Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, U. Colorado Boulder (Practitioner-Scientist
Training Model)
o Victor C. Raimy Psychology Clinic, Boulder campus
o Wardenburg Psychiatric Clinic, Boulder campus
o JFK Developmental Services, Denver Medical Center campus
o Park East Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center, Denver
o Carmel House and & Kelwood, Ltd (ICFMR - Intermediate Care Facility
for Mentally Retarded adults), Boulder
• Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences (TRIMS), Houston, TX
(Practitioner-Scientist Training Model)
Licenses
• Psychology, Colorado, #1644
• Psychology, Alabama, #1589
• CEUs current
• Professional liability policy current
Professional Positions – Duties, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Clinical, Consulting & Research Psychology
• Diagnostic evaluation (interviews, psychological testing, review of other
professional service records) for clinical and forensic purposes
• Psychotherapy, adult, adolescent with individuals, couples, families, groups
• Wide range of diagnoses, many with physical / medical involvement
• Emergency psychiatric hospital admissions, voluntary and involuntary
• Worked in Inpatient, outpatient, residential, school and community settings;
• Consultation to primary care (MDs, PAs, NPs, RNs, and specialties); judicial, law
enforcement, attorneys, school, and social services personnel
• Research with the RAND Corp on psychological and medical treatment of
depression in primary care settings
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3. Reginaldo G. Garcia, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae March 2015
• Culturally and other diverse patient populations
• Supervision of psychologists, counselors, and social workers, including for state
licensing
Educational Administration
• Regional director for twenty-two school districts in southwestern Colorado
including the San Luis Valley and west to the Four Corners area
• Clients were PK-12 students children of migratory agricultural Mexican and
Latin American families
• Responsible for budget (as much as 1 million dollars) and federal A131
compliance, personnel (as many as 100 temporary staff), and educational and
health program development
• Program provided supplemental educational and health services
• Parent engagement programs
• Professional development for educators
Public Health Research
• Health promotion and prevention of chronic illness through Community-Based
Participatory Research (CBPR)
• CBPR approach to expanded testing of strategies for translation of obesity-
diabetes type 2 guidelines for prevention and care for large-scale community
dissemination;
• CBPR approach to local healthy food availability, accessibility and affordability;
training of junior faculty in CBPR through community immersion;
• Implementation research partnership development with a focus on independent
living needs of senior citizens
• concept and personnel development of Community Research Liaison personnel
in CBPR;
• reviewer of 2015 pilot grants for Colorado Clinical Translational Sciences
Institute funding;
• community-university partnership building and capacity development for CBPR
research in health disparities in rural communities
• program director in an unprecedented CBPR project to provide local health data
in a six-county region in southern Colorado
• administrative and personnel supervision of a remotely located research
installation funded by the CDC and administered by the U. Colorado Denver
Employment
Current
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4. Reginaldo G. Garcia, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae March 2015
San Luis Valley Program Director, Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, U.
Colorado Denver, Department of Community & Behavioral Health, 2008 – to date.
Community Research Liaison, U. Colorado Denver, Colorado Clinical Sciences
Institute. 2009 to date
Project Coordinator & Facilitator, U. Colorado Denver, Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research Institute (PCORI) CBPR grant, 2013 to date.
Senior Research Assistant, U. Colorado Denver, an American Cancer Society CBPR
grant, 2014 to date.
Principal Investigator, San Luis Valley Food Producer Survey (in progress). This is a
partnership study of the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center, the Colorado
Clinical Translational Sciences Institute and the San Luis Valley Local Foods
Coalition.
Previous
Regional Director, U. S. Migrant Education Program. San Luis Valley Board of
Cooperative Educational Services, Alamosa, Colorado.
Clinical and Consulting Psychologist, San Luis Valley Comprehensive Community
Mental Health Center, Alamosa, Colorado.
Clinical and Consulting Psychologist, Monte Vista Community Hospital, Psychiatric
Service, Monte Vista, Colorado.
Clinical and Consulting Psychologist, Weinberger, Hall, and Associates, P. C., Houston,
Texas,
Clinical and Consulting Psychologist, Horizon Hospital, Houston, Texas
Clinical and Consulting Psychologist, Horizon Hospital, Houston, Texas.
Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist, Raleigh Hills Hospitals, Houston, Texas.
Diagnostic evaluation, behavior modification, social skills training, independent
living education, training and supervision, psychotherapy. Developmentally
Challenged Adults, Severe and Persistent Mentally Ill Patients. Carmel House, Ltd.,
Boulder, Colorado and Park East Mental Health Center, Denver, Colorado. Worked
under supervision and mentorship of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists.
Leadership Positions
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5. Reginaldo G. Garcia, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae March 2015
Steering Committee Member, Eugene S. Farley Health Policy Center, U. Colorado
Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus
Member, San Luis Valley Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force, a collaboration of
primary care providers, behavioral health care providers, pharmacists, law
enforcement, district court judges and other stakeholders to develop
interventions to decrease the epidemic incidence of prescription drug abuse and
consequences
Council Member, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Advisory Council, Colorado
Department of Education, English Language Acquisition Unit
President, Colorado Association of Educational Specialists (CAES), a division of the
Colorado Association of School Executives (CASE). Also, received a
Distinguished Service Award
Co-Founder, San Luis Valley Parent, School and Community Involvement
Conference, San Luis Valley Conference Committee
Examiner, Colorado State Board of Psychologist Examiners
President, Society for Descriptive Psychology
Consulting Psychologist, Clinical Advisory Committee, SyCare, Inc., to establish
diagnostic and treatment guidelines for Medicaid - Managed Care
Board of Directors, Friends of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve,
Moffat, Colorado
Recent Research & Other Presentations
Presenter, An Extraordinary Partnership in CBPR: Studies of the Food Environment
in the San Luis Valley. A poster presentation at the Engaging Communities in
Education and Research, Vail, Colorado, September 26, 2014.
Co-presenter, Developing Community Partnerships for Research. Presentation at
Engaging Communities in Education and Research, Vail, Colorado, September 27,
2014.
Panelist, Community Perspectives on Recruitment and Retention. 4th
Annual
Research Ethics Conference, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus,
Aurora, Colorado, October 3, 2013
Panelist, From Local Data to Local Engagement – The How’s and Why’s. 2013
Annual SNOCAP Convocation (Shared Networks of Collaborative Ambulatory
Practices & Partners) and University of Colorado Denver CCTSI PACT (Colorado
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6. Reginaldo G. Garcia, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae March 2015
Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute – Partnership of Academicians &
Communities for Translation), Inverness Hotel & Conference Center, Englewood,
Colorado, September 28, 2013
Presentation, San Luis Valley Community Health Survey. Same conference as above,
September 27, 2013
Presenter, Moving Forward with Community-Initiated Improvements to Aging
Services in the San Luis Valley. Public Health in the Rockies Conference,
Breckenridge, Colorado, September 20, 2013
Panelist, Affordable Care Act: What you need to know Forum. Adams State
University, Alamosa, Colorado, April 13, 2013
Memberships
• American Psychological Association
• Society for Descriptive Psychology
• Friends of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Spanish Language Proficiency
I am able to carry a social and business conversation in Spanish, and read and
write in Spanish. Much of my professional work in clinical and consulting
psychology and educational administration required communicating in Spanish
with patients, students, parents and personnel. I have done psychological
evaluations, psychological treatment, education and consultation in Spanish.
References
Furnished as requested
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7. Reginaldo G. Garcia, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae March 2015
Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute – Partnership of Academicians &
Communities for Translation), Inverness Hotel & Conference Center, Englewood,
Colorado, September 28, 2013
Presentation, San Luis Valley Community Health Survey. Same conference as above,
September 27, 2013
Presenter, Moving Forward with Community-Initiated Improvements to Aging
Services in the San Luis Valley. Public Health in the Rockies Conference,
Breckenridge, Colorado, September 20, 2013
Panelist, Affordable Care Act: What you need to know Forum. Adams State
University, Alamosa, Colorado, April 13, 2013
Memberships
• American Psychological Association
• Society for Descriptive Psychology
• Friends of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
Spanish Language Proficiency
I am able to carry a social and business conversation in Spanish, and read and
write in Spanish. Much of my professional work in clinical and consulting
psychology and educational administration required communicating in Spanish
with patients, students, parents and personnel. I have done psychological
evaluations, psychological treatment, education and consultation in Spanish.
References
Furnished as requested
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