• External Scientific Advisory Board, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behavior, 2014 – present
  • Co-Chair, Arizona Health Sciences Center Neuroscience Advisory Council, University of Arizona, 2013 – present
  • Section of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Review Committee, NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors, 2013 - 2014
  • Chair, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Review Committee, NIA Division of Neuroscience Program, 2012 - 2013
  • Neurobiology of Aging Review Committee, NIA Division of Neuroscience Program, 2012-2013
  • External Scientific Advisory Board, Friedman Brain Institute, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, 2010 – present
  • Chair, Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize Advisory Board 2010 - 2014
  • External Scientific Advisory Board, Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, University of California at San Francisco, 2008 – present
  • Chair, Society for Neuroscience International Affairs Committee – US National Committee, 2008-2011
  • IBRO Executive Committee, 2008 -2011
  • SfN/FENS Working Group Committee, 2008 – 2011
  • SfN World Women in Neuroscience Committee, 2008-2011
  • Provosts Advisory Council for Strategic Advancement, University of Arizona, 2008 - 2009
  • Executive Committee, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, 2007 - present
  • Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize Advisory Board, 2007 - present
  • Chair, Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize Advisory Board 2010 - 2014
  • Incoming Chair, Society for Neuroscience International Affairs Committee – 2007 - 2008
  • US National Committee, 2008-2011 Past-President, Society for Neuroscience, 2005 - 2006
  • President, Society for Neuroscience, 2004 - 2005
  • President-Elect, Society for Neuroscience, 2003 - 2004;
  • External Scientific Advisory Board, Center for the Biology of Memory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2003 – 2013
  • Secretary, Society for Neuroscience, 2000 - 2002
  • Councilor, Society for Neuroscience, 1996 - 2000
  • Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of Mental Health, 1999 - 2004
  • National Science Advisory Council, American Federation for Aging Research, 1995 – 2002
  • Psychology Department Executive Advisory Committee, University of Arizona, 1995 - 2000
  • National Advisory Council on Aging, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, 1994 -1997
  • Medical and Scientific Advisory Board, Alzheimer's Association, 1991-2000
  • Neuroscience, Behavior and Sociology of Aging Review Committee A, National Institute on Aging, 1987 - 1991
  • Delegate, Family/Institutional Care for the Aging Delegation to the People's Republic of China, 1984