Marcel Pontón Profesor de Consejería Pastoral, Familia e Identidad Cultural y Crecimiento Personal. Escuela de Teología Departamento Hispano
moponton@ucla.edu		Biografía El Dr. Marcel Pontón es Profesor Clínico Asociado en el Departamento de Psiquiatría de la Universidad de California Los Angeles (UCLA), Profesor Adjunto de Consejería Pastoral en el Seminario de Fuller y Profesor Visitante de la Universidad de Sevilla. Saliendo de Venezuela en 1979 como estudiante internacional, él obtuvo su Licenciatura en Psicología y Biblia en Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL) en 1983 y se graduó del Seminario Teológico Fuller en 1989 con una Maestría en Teología y un Ph.D. en Psicología Clínica. Luego cursó estudios de post-doctorado en la Universidad de California Los Angeles en donde enseña desde 1992. El Dr. Pontón dirige una clínica de evaluaciones neuropsicológicas para el Hospital de Harbor-UCLA y tiene su consultorio privado en ciudad de Pasadena. El enseña en Latino-América y España en el área de trauma y daño cerebral y ha publicado muchos artículos en revistas técnicas. Es también el co-autor de Neuropsicología y el Paciente Hispano: Un Manual Clínico.
Educación Bachelor of Arts, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL Masters of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, USA Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA, USA Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCLA-NPI Clildren's Hospital Los Angeles, CA, USA Post-Doctoral Fellow, UCLA-NPI, Daniel Freeman Hospital, CA, USA Membresía Profesional Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine. Fellow, National Academy of Neuropsychology. Director, Ambulatory Neuropsychology Clinic, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Clinical Director, Persona Neurobehavior Group, Pasadena, CA. President, Hispanic Neuropsychological Society, 1994-1997; 2001-2003. Member, Hispanic Advisory Committee. Profesor Visitante, Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Psicologia, Programa de Neuropsicologia.
Publicaciones, Escritos
		Pontón, M. O., & Webber, N. T. (1987) A Multimodal Approach to Church Consultation: The Psychologist and the Church. in H.N. Malony (Ed.) Is there a shrink in the Lord's house? Integration Press: Pasadena. Pontón, M. O., & Gorsuch, R. L. (1988) Prejudice and Religion Revisited: A Cross-Cultural Investigation with a Venezuelan sample. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 27, 260-271. Malony H. N., & Pontón, M. O. (Eds.) (1990) The church and mental illness: A directory of programs. Integration Press: Pasadena . Pontón, M.O. (1993) Spanish Translation of the Beck Depression Inventory. The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX. Pontón, M.O.(1993) Spanish Translation of the Beck Anxiety Inventory. The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX. Pontón, M.O. (1993) Spanish Translation of the Beck Hopelessness Scale. The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX. Pontón, M.O. (1993) Spanish Translation of the Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale. The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX. Pontón, M.O. (1994) Spanish Translation of the 16 Personality Factor Test (16PF). Institute for Personality Assessment and Testing (IPAT), Champaign, IL. Pontón, M.O., Darcourt J., Miller, B.L., Cummings, J.L. and Mena, I. (1994) SPECT in Capgras syndrome: Evidence for right temporal dysfunction. Neurology, 44: (Suppl 2), A402. Pontón, M.O., Darcourt J., Miller, B.L., Cummings, J.L. and Mena, I. (1995) Neuropsychological and SPECT studies in Alzheimer's Disease with and without Delusions. Journal of Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology. 8, 247-256 Pontón, M.O., Satz, P., Herrera, L., Urrutia, C. P., Ortiz, F., Young, R., D'Elia, L., Furst, C., Namerow, N. (1996). Normative data stratified by age and education for the Neuropsychological Screening Battery for Hispanics (NeSBHIS): An initial report. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 2 (2) 96-104. Taussig, M. & Pontón, M. O. (1996). Issues in Neuropsychological Assessment of Hispanic Older Adults: Cultural and Linguistic Factors. In G. Yeo & D. Gallagher-Thompson (Eds.) Ethnicity and the Dementias. San Francisco: Taylor & Francis (pp. 47-58). Pontón, M. O., Gonzalez, J. J. & Mares, M. (1997). Psychotherapeutic interventions with head injured Hispanic patients. In J. León -Carrión (Ed) Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Fundamentals, Innovations and Directions. Winter Park, FL: Saint Lucie Press (pp. 513-529) 14. Pontón, M.O. (1997). Spanish Translation of the Beck Depression Inventory-II. The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX. Miller,B. L., Ikonte, C., Pontón, M. O., Boone, K. Darby, A. & Cummings, J. L. (1997). A study of the Lund Manchester research criteria for fronto-temporal dementia. Neurology. 48. 937-942. Sano, M., Mackell, J. A., Pontón, M. O., Ferreira, P., Wilson, J., Pawluczyk, S., Pfeifer, E., Thomas, R.G., Jin, S., Shafer, K., Schittini, M., Ferris, S.H., & Thal, L.J. (1997) The Spanish Instrument Protocol: Design and implementation of a study to evaluate treatment efficacy instruments for Spanish speaking patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, 11, Suppl 2:S57-64. Boone, K. B., Pontón, M. O., Gorsuch, R. L., Gonzalez, J. J., & Miller, B. L. (1998). Factor Analysis of Four Measures of Pre-frontal Functioning. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 13 (7). 585-595. Pontón, M. O. & Ardila, A. (1999). The future of Neuropsychology with Hispanic populations. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 14 (7), 565-580. Llorente, A., Pontón, M.O., Taussig, M. & Satz, P. (1999). Patterns of immigration and their impact on neuropsychological norms. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 14 (7), 603-614. Miller, B., Cummings, J., Mishkin, F., Boone, K., Prince, F., Pontón, M., & Cotman, C. (1998). Emergence of artistic talent in frontotemporal dementia. Neurology. 51:978-982. Mendez, M. F., K. M. Perryman, Pontón, M.O. & Cummings, J. L. (1999). "Bilingualism and dementia." Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences 11(3): 411-412. Pontón, M. O., J. J. Gonzalez, Hernández, I. & Igareda, J. (2000). "Factor analysis of the Neuropsychological Screening Battery for Hispanics (NeSBHIS)." Applied Neuropsychology 7(1): 32-39. Fitten, L. J., F. Ortiz & Pontón, M. O. (2001). "Frequency of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias in a community outreach sample of Hispanics." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 49(10): 1301-1308. Pontón, M. O. (2001). Hispanic culture in the United States. In M. O. Pontón and J. Leon-Carrion (Eds), Neuropsychology and the Hispanic patient: A clinical handbook. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: 15-38. Pontón, M. O. and J. Leon-Carrion (2001). The Hispanic population in the United States: An overview of sociocultural and demographic issues. In M. O. Pontón and J. Leon-Carrion (Eds), Neuropsychology and the Hispanic patient: A clinical handbook. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: 1-13.  Pontón, M. O. and I. Monguio (2001). Rehabilitation of brain injury among Hispanic patients. In M. O. Pontón and J. Leon-Carrion (Eds), Neuropsychology and the Hispanic patient: A clinical handbook. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: 307-319. Pontón, M. O. (2001). Research and assessment issues with Hispanic populations. In M. O. Pontón and J. Leon-Carrion (Eds), Neuropsychology and the Hispanic patient: A clinical handbook. Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers: 39-58. Nelson, N. & Pontón, M. O. (In Press). The Art of Clinical Neuropsychology. In Uzzell, B., Pontón, M. O. & Ardila, A. (Eds) International Handbook of Cross-cultural Neuropsychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. Pontón, M. O. & León-Carrión, J. (Eds). (2001). Neuropsychology and the Hispanic Patient: A Clinical Handbook. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates.