Casey McDougall is the training director and academic adviser for the clinical psychopharmacology master’s program in the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation. In 2024, he received the American Psychological Association Society of Prescribing Psychologists Educator of the Year Award from the American Psychological Association, Division 55, also known as the Society of Prescribing Psychologists.
The award recognizes an exemplary educator in clinical psychopharmacology and prescribing and medical psychology. Examples of individuals eligible for this award are educators at the undergraduate or graduate level, including those teaching in graduate-level clinical psychopharmacology programs, doctoral programs in health service psychology and related programs.
The clinical psychopharmacology program at NMSU is one of only six in the nation that are APA-Designated.
McDougall is a licensed clinical psychologist and prescribing medical psychologist in New Mexico. He’s also a professor in the Counseling and Educational Psychology department and works as a consultant for the Rehabilitation Hospital for Southern New Mexico in Las Cruces.
He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Dakota and a postdoctoral master’s in clinical psychopharmacology from Alliant International University. He is an Operation Iraqi Freedom III veteran and a direct descendant of the White Earth (Nation) Band of Chippewa.