Mazy Gillis @ Plante Moran
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Mazy Gillis
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Mazy Gillis
- Name: Mazy Gillis
- Company: Plante Moran
- Title: Associate, Organizational Development and Personnel Assessment
- Address: 27400 Northwestern Highway, P.O. Box 307, Southfield, MI 48037
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Biography
Dr. Gillis is a licensed psychologist who has 12 years of healthcare experience in the academic and clinical hospital settings. She has completed a three-year fellowship in Sleep Medicine and also worked as a hospital-based Consultation Liaison Psychologist. She has published 5 articles in academic, peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of Behavioral Medicine and Pain Medicine.
Trained as a health psychologist and clinician, Dr. Gillis left an academic research and clinical pain management career to pursue management consulting. For three years she worked with RHR International, a 61-year old, Chicago-based consulting company helping Fortune 500 companies identify, evaluate and grow leaders. While at RHR, she provided Executive Assessment and Coaching services to leaders at Merck and Company, Steelcase, Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Dow Corning, Joy Global Mining and Machinery and others.
Dr. Gillis joined Plante & Moran in 2008, where, in addition to individual Executive Evaluation, Executive Coaching, and succession planning, Dr. Gillis puts her clinical skills to work developing high performing teams. She also conducts a number of educational workshops that help organizations grow leaders and manage change.
Employment
- Management Consultant / Associate
- Plante & Moran
- Organizational Development and Personnel Assessment Practice
- Specializing in executive assessment and executive coaching for hiring and leadership development purposes. Significant experience in organizational / assessment and intervention as it applies to senior teams, departments and organizations as a whole.
- Consultant
- RHR International, Chicago, IL
- 2005-2008
- RHR International is a pioneer in cultivating performance at the highest levels of the world’s most successful corporations and organizations. Delivered the following services to retail, manufacturing, automotive supply, and energy industries among others: executive candidate assessment, executive integration, team assessment and development, high potential development, succession planning and process consultation.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- 2002-2005
- Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit
Education
- Henry Ford Hospital, Sleep Center, Dept. of Pulmonary Medicine, Detroit (2002-Present), Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Grant title: : Sleep and Rheumatic Disease: A Clinical Investigation
- Henry Ford Hospital, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry (1999-2000), Pre-doctoral Internship
- Wayne State University, Department of Psychology, Detroit, Michigan
- Ph.D. 2002; M.A. 1998
- Major: Clinical Psychology, Minor: Biopsychology
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1986-1990)
- B.A. with Distinction
- Double Major: Psychology and English
Honors / Appointments
- Recipient, Sleep Research Society’s Trainee Merit Based Travel Award, 18th APSS Annual Meeting, 2004
- Recipient, “Outstanding Submission by a Trainee,” American Psychosomatic Society, 2003
- Recipient, Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Grant Award, 2002-2005
- Recipient, Student Award Program Grant, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation, 2000
- Recipient, President’s Exceptional Service Award, Bronze Award Winner, 2000
- Recipient, Dissertation Research Funding, Graduate School of W.S.U., 1999
- Appointment, President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 1995-1997
- Recipient, Graduate-Professional Scholarship, 1995-1996
- Member, Psi Chi, National Honor Society for Psychology, 1989
- Nominee, University of Michigan Student Achievement Award, 1989
Professional Affiliations
American Psychological Association – Division 13, Consulting Psychology
Teaching Experience
- Graduate Course – Wayne State University
- Psychological Assessment, Teaching Assistant
- Undergraduate Courses – Wayne State University
- Psychology of Personality
- Psychology of Adjustment
- Human Motivation, Feeling, and Emotion
- Abnormal Psychology
- Psychology of Women
- Introduction to Psychology
Research Experience
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2002-present
Eastern Michigan University Department of Psychology, Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Project Coordinator of N.I.H. grant R03 MH61569-01, 2000-2001
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
- Project Coordinator, Arthritis Foundation Grant, 1995-1998
University of Michigan Alcohol Research Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Research Assistant, 1990-1991
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Research Assistant, 1990
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Research Assistant, 1998-1989
Clinical Experience
Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan
- Predoctoral Intern in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 1999-2000
Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan
- Practicum student in Neuropsychology, 1996-1997
W.S.U. Psychology Clinic, Detroit, Michigan
- Student Therapist, 1995-present
Oakland County Probate Court Psychological Clinic, Pontiac, Michigan
- Practicum Student, 1994-1995
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Neuropsychometrician, 1991-1992
Ypsilanti Regional Psychiatric Hospital, Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Activities Coordinator, 1989
Publications
Gillis, M.E., Lumley, M.A., Mosley-Williams, A., Leisen, J.C.C., & Roehrs, T.A. (2006). The health effects of at-home written emotional disclosure in fibromyalgia. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 32, 135-146.
Lumley, M.A., Radcliffe, A.M., Macklem, D., Mosley-Williams, A., Leisen, J.C.C., Huffman, J., D’Souza, P., Gillis, M., Meyer, T., Kraft, C., & Rapport, L. (2005). Alexithymia and pain in three chronic pain samples: Comparing Caucasians and African Americans. Pain Medicine, 6, 251-261.
Lumley, M.A. & Gillis, M.E. (2004). Cognitive behavioral therapy. In A.J. Christensen, R. Martin, & J.M. Smyth (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Health Psychology (pp. 55-57). New York: Kluwer Academic / Plenum.
Cano, A., Gillis, M., Heinz, W., Geisser, M. & Foran, H. (2004) Marital functioning, chronic pain, and psychological distress. Pain, 107/1-2, 99-106.
Mosley-Williams, A., Lumley, M.A., Gillis, M., Leisen, J. & Guice, D. (2002) Barriers to treatment adherence among African-American and Caucasian women with systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis & Rheumatism (Arthritis Care and Research), 47, 630-638.
Invited Speaker
Gillis, ME. A Framework to Capture Developmental Experiences of Executive Women and Succession Planning in Your Organization. Two lectures to be delivered at The Executive Women’s Congress (January, 2008), Miami, Florida
Gillis, ME. Developing Your Future Leaders (May, 2007) LTC 100 Executive Management Conference, The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia Leadership behavior change discussed with business leaders in the area of long term care. Described ways to align senior teams around organizational strategies and how to properly deploy talent as a key competitive advantage.
Gillis, M. Sleep and Rheumatic Disease: A Clinical Investigation (April, 2005) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Presentation of study findings regarding the relationship between macroarchitectural and spectral properties of sleep with daytime functioning (fatigue, sleepiness, and pain) in patients with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and normal controls. “Gender, Sleep Loss, and Pain” – Symposium at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies 18th Annual Meeting.
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