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Middlebury, Ct, Us

New Britain, Connecticut, United States

Provide psychological and neuropsychological assessment and intervention services to the acute inpatient rehabilitation unit, cardiac unit and the long-term Care Units on a consultation basis. • Provide individual psychotherapy in the out-patient clinic. Populations served are diverse and range from neuromuscular conditions, brain injury, cardiac, and spinal cord injury. • Actively working on developing a Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) program in collaboration with physiatry.

Houston, Texas Area

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Neuropsychologist on the Neuromuscular, Spinal Cord Injury and Brain Injury services. • Completed psychological and neuropsychological assessments, providing psychotherapy to aid with adjustment and provided treatments for psychological pain management and sleep.• Treated in outpatient clinic completing neuropsychological evaluations and treatment primarily with traumatic brain injury patients. • Developed and served as the Director of the Rehabilitation Psychology Fellowship at TIRR.• Actively involved with direct supervision of graduate students, interns and postdoctoral fellows

Killeen, Texas, United States

Primary psychologist within the Army Medical Boards office. Evaluated psychological and neuropsychological records of service members documenting comprehensive reports based on those records to help determine if the service member meets/does not meet retention standards or if separation from the military is warranted based on psychological and neuropsychological presentation.• Supervised a team of social workers who provided services to service members who were going through the medical board process.

Office of Neurological Trauma – Was actively involved in development of a comprehensive concussion clinic during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.• Worked with leadership from the USN and USMC to identify the needs of service members coming home from war with traumatic brain injuries.• Performed neuropsychological evaluations and assessed ability to return to active duty, redeploy or determine if medical separation is needed.

Integral member of the treatment team on both the pediatric neurotrauma unit and adult brain injury unit. • Assess the psychological and neuropsychological functioning of patients and to provide ongoing individual psychotherapy and family therapy. • Performed cognitive screenings, full neuropsychological evaluations, and assessed capacity to make independent medical decisions,• Mentored staff with developing and implementing behavioral management strategies.

Doctor Of Psychology, Clinical Psychology With Specialty In Neuropsychology

Activities and Societies: Board Certified through the American Board of Professional psychology (ABPP) in Rehabilitation Psychology

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Mental Health Concentration

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Psychology