His scientific contributions have been recognized by awards from the Division of Health Psychology (38), the Divisions of Health Psychology and Aging (20 and 38) of the American Psychological Association, and the Gold Medal for Life Time Achievement in Psychological Science from the American Psychological Foundation (2005). His participation in professional associations included service as President of the Division of Health Psychology (38) of the American Psychological Association (1996-1997); Fellow of AAAS, APA, APS, and SBM; and Member of the Advisory Board of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR). Dr. Leventhal has served as a consultant to a wide variety of federal institutions and was a member and chair of the Behavioral Medicine Study Section of the NIH and has participated in and served as chair of committees for various institutes (e.g., NIA, NHLBI) on issues ranging from training young scientists to compliance with treatment. He served for five or more years on the International Advisory Board of the Research Institute for Psychology and Health (Universities of Leiden, Utrecht and Tilburg; acknowledged by the Royal Dutch Academy of Science), and the External Advisory Boards of the Mind Body Centers at the University of Pittsburgh and Ohio State University. He is a consultant to the Behavioral Science Program at the Population Science Program of the Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) in Philadelphia, PA. He and his students are actively involved in research with the Health Services Research Program at the Department of Health Policy and the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM), as well as with the Division of General Internal Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC) in Dallas and Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). He was an associate editor of Health Psychology during its early years as a Division 38 journal, was co-editor of the Journal of Psychology and Health and the International Review of Health Psychology, and has served on the boards of multiple journals (JPSP; Cognition and Emotion; Journal of Applied Social Psychology; Patient Education and Counseling; Health Psychology). Dr. Leventhal’s theoretical and empirical contributions span the fields of emotion, illness behavior, and illness attribution and have resulted in invitations to deliver invited addresses in the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan and at multiple universities and medical schools in the United States, and for several APA Science Weekends.