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RUSSELL M. BAUER, PH.D., ABPP-CN: Site PI, university of florida, Gainesville

Russell Bauer is Preeminence Professor of Clinical & Health Psychology at the University of Florida Academic Health Center and Director of the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center of Excellence (BRRC) at the Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Bauer’s research program uses novel neurocognitive probes along with structural and functional MRI to evaluate risk factors for, and early markers of, neurocognitive decline in aging and traumatic brain injury (TBI), and risks for complicated recovery after concussion/mild TBI. He is also developing precision rehabilitation interventions for individuals who have suffered mild/moderate traumatic brain injury, and engages in appliedwork and teaching in an interdisciplinary TBI clinic.

ROBERT M. BILDER, PH.D., ABPP-CN: overall pi; site pi university of california, los angeles

Robert Bilder is the Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Psychology at UCLA, and serves as Chief, Division of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Jane & Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and Stewart & Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital. Dr. Bilder has long been interested in transdisciplinary research that connects neuropsychological measures to genetic, physiological, and neural circuit-level processes. He is also interested in the application of modern measurement methods to neuropsychological assessment and the development of collaborative knowledge-bases to represent our understanding of neuropsychological constructs.

DANIEL DRANE, PH.D., ABPP-CN: Site pi, emory university, atlanta

Daniel Drane is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics at Emory University, and maintains an Affiliate Associate Professor position at the University of Washington School of Medicine. His primary research involves predicting and improving epilepsy surgery outcome, with an emphasis on mapping structure-function relationships of the temporal lobes. His work combines cognitive assessment and neuroimaging procedures to understand the interplay of neural networks underlying cognition (particularly declarative memory, language, and face/ojection recognition) and emotion. He previously led the Test Development Committee while serving on the board of directors of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, and is creating novel test measures using videography and virtual reality.

DAVID LORING, PH.D., ABPP-CN: Site pi, emory university, atlanta

David W. Loring is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, and Director of Neuropsychology in the Neurology Department at Emory University School of Medicine. His research has emphasized the use of cognitive measures as outcomes to evaluate overall treatment effectiveness of pharmacologic, surgical, and other interventions as a critical component of overall treatment effectiveness, and also as a way of characterizing epilepsy related effects on cognition and behavior. He is a currently an Associate Editor for Epilepsia and Editor-in-Chief for Neuropsychology Review.

STEVEN P. REISE, PH.D.: co-investigator, ucla

Steven Reise is Professor of Psychology at UCLA in Quantitative Psychology, and prior chair of that program. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, his book “Item Response Theory for Psychologists” (Embretson & Reise, 2000) is the leading textbook in item response theory (IRT) measurement, and he is winner of both the Raymond B. Cattell and Tanaka awards from the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. His research interests center on the role of the bifactor model in defining and assessing dimensionality in an IRT context, outlier detection (i.e., person-fit measurement), and structural equation modeling (SEM), particularly applications of robust SEM estimation methods where outliers are down-weighted during the estimation of model parameters.

Catherine A. Sugar, PH.D.: co-investigator, ucla

Catherine Sugar, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the Director of the Semel Institute Statistics Core (SIStat) in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1998. Dr. Sugar's methodological expertise is in clustering, classification, and functional data analysis with an emphasis on finding patterns in high-dimensional or longitudinal data. She has also been involved in numerous applied projects in the mental health arena, particularly in schizophrenia and depression. This work has focused on identifying patterns of symptoms or functioning in patient populations and exploring how those patterns evolve over time in response to treatments or other stimuli.

LAURA UMFLEET, Psy.D., ABPP-CN: site pi, medical college of wisconsin

Laura Glass Umfleet is Assistant Professor of Neurology (Division of Neuropsychology) and Director of the Adult Neuropsychology Practicum Training Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Her background includes research investigating psychometric properties of the Wechsler scales and other neuropsychological measures in patients with memory disorders, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis, and psychometrics of symptom validity tests. Her current research focuses on early biomarkers for neurodegenerative conditions and collaborations with cardiologists to distinguish normal from abnormal aging in adults with congenital heart disease.

DUSTIN WAHLSTROM, PH.D.: site pi, Pearson inc.

Dustin Wahlstrom is Director of Portfolio Management and Delivery – Therapeutics at Pearson Education. Previously, he helped lead the development of the Q-interactive assessment platform and was a research director for the WPPSI-IV and WISC-V. He has a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota.

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