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Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society
125 Nashua Street, Boston MA 02114
(617) 742-6719
e-mail: admin@massneuropsychology.org
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Board Members
 President: Carol A. Leavell, PhD, ABPP
Dr. Carol Leavell, Ph.D., ABPP/CN, now President Elect, previously has served as Secretary and Board Member of MNS. A former Director of Neuropsychology at Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, she is now a Partner at Lifespan Neuropsychological Services, Inc., at the same location. In addition to directing a post doctoral training program and supervising interns, she teaches in the Graduate College of Education at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She received her Ph.D. at Syracuse University and completed a neuropsychology internship through the Brown University Internship Consortium. Subsequently, she completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuropsychology at Braintree Hospital in affiliation with Boston University. She is an elected Fellow in the National Academy of Neuropsychology and Board Certified in Clinical Neuropsychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP); she also serves as a Member at Large for the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychologists (AACN). In addition to MNS, her other professional society affiliations include MPA, APA, INS and NAN.
 Past-President: Maxine
Krengel,
Ph.D
Maxine Krengel, Ph.D. earned her doctorate at SUNY Albany. She completed
a neuropsychological internship at the VA Boston Healthcare System under the
supervision of Dr. Roberta F. White and a postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital
under the supervision of Dr. Nancy Hebben. Dr. Krengel has worked in the
clinical neuropsychology service as a staff clinician and supervisor for 16 years.
She is part of a group private practice at Boston University in the Department
of Neurology. She continues to teach neuropsychology practicum students,
interns and postdoctoral fellows at the VA Boston Healthcare System and she teaches
classes in assessment and brain behavior relationships at Lesley University,
Boston University and Mount Ida College. Research interests include effects
of toxicant exposures on cognition, Gulf War related illnesses, and the cognitive
effects of blast injury. Dr. Krengel is a member of MPA, INS, and NAN.
 President-Elect: Sandra
Shaheen, Ph.D.
Sandra Shaheen, Ph. D. earned her doctorate at Tufts University
and completed pre and postdoctoral training at the Boston
Children's Hospital where she worked with Natalie Sollee
and Irving Hurwitz. She developed consultation liaison programs
with the Toxicology, Neurology, and Psychosomatic Units at
the hospital and joined the Postdoctoral Training staff
in 1985. Dr. Shaheen
has been an active member of MNS since the beginning
of the organization and has served on the professional
practices committee, and as membership coordinator. Now
in private practice, Dr. Shaheen has taught assessment
courses at Tufts University and other local colleges, and
coordinated a school consultation program for the Statewide
Head Injury Program (SHIP). She maintains appointments
at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and
is a member of APA, INS, NAN,
and SPP. She is Board Certified in Pediatric Neuropsychology through the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Research interests have included
the effects of toxic exposures on cognitive and behavior
development, neuroplasticity and development, effects of
early prefrontal lesions on outcome.
Secretary and Director of Professional Affairs: Kira
Armstrong, Ph.D.
Dr. Kira Armstrong earned her Ph.D. at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She completed her internship through the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Consortium, and her postdoctoral fellowship at Columbus Children's Hospital. She is Board Certified in Clinical Neuropsychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). While living in Chicago Dr. Armstrong directed a hospital-based pediatric neuropsychology service in Chicago. She moved to Boston in order to direct the pediatric neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship training program at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). Dr. Armstrong transitioned to a full-time private practice in 2008, which has allowed her to spend more time with the families she sees for neuropsychological assessments. She is involved in many state and nationally-based Neuropsychological Societies and is the co-author of several peer reviewed journal articles and book in the AACN Oxford Workshop Book Series. Finally, she also has presented or co-presented several conference workshops at a local and national level and lectures to graduate students, medical students, and parents regarding a wide range of neuropsychological topics.
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 Treasurer: Sigmund Hough, Ph.D., ABPP
Dr. Hough received his college and masters degree in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University, and Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Boston University. Dr. Hough holds ABPP board specialization in Rehabilitation Psychology. He is a clinical rehabilitation neuropsychologist assigned to the West Roxbury campus, Spinal Cord Injury Services. Dr. Hough is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine. Previously, he has served in the capacity of Clinical Director and Director of Psychological services at private rehabilitation facilities, case reviewer for a nationwide managed care company, and as a clinical service provider in both the public and private sector. He has served as Director, Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program-Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology (affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School). He is a Fellow in the National Academy of Neuropsychology, registered as a National Health Care Provider in Psychology, licensed in Massachusetts and Maine. He serves as Training Site Reviewer for the American Psychological Association and a CARF Surveyor, conducting medical facility accreditation site visits nationwide for the division of Medical Rehabilitation. He is an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Journal Editor of Sexuality and Disability. Dr. Hough is Webmaster/author of the VA Boston Healthcare System’s Spinal Cord Injury Website. He is a member of the VA Boston Ethics Advisory Committee, the Palliative Care Consult Team, Professional Standards Board, Local Psychology Standards Board, and a member of Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, APA Div.45. His research interests are at the interface of neurological injury, rehabilitation, sexuality, and adjustment to life events. Dr. Hough serves as coordinator and supervisor of the Rehabilitation Psychology Internship rotation, Boston Consortium Psychology Internship Program. Dr. Hough serves as coordinator and supervisor of the Rehabilitation Psychology track as a part of the VA Psychology Postdoctoral Neuropsychology Training Program, as well as in the Practicum Psychology Training Program. Dr. Hough has co-authored a book chapter related to the process of JCAHO accreditation and published peer reviewed articles related to the interface of psychological issues and neurological/ rehabilitation/ life conditions. Member of the Editorial Board of PsycCRITIQUES and Journal Reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, Achieves of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation and Spinal Cord. Recipient of the 2004 Clinical Performance Award from The American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers and the 2005 Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Training from The Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). Received the 2008-2009 Outstanding Supervisor award from the internship class, The Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology. In 2008, Dr. Hough was elected to the office of Treasurer and Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society. Dr. Hough was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers in 2007. In 2009, he was elected to the Governance Board and President of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals- Psychologist and Social Workers Section.
 Membership Director: Jennifer M. Turek, Ph.D
Jennifer M. Turek, Ph.D., earned her doctorate at Suffolk University in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Turek is currently a pediatric neuropsychologist at CHB and an Instructor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her clinical work is focused on children and young adults with medical conditions, in the areas of spina bifida, neurological disorders, head injuries, oncology, and other systematic disorders. She is involved in supervision and didactic training in the pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral residency programs at Children's Hospital. Her research has been focused on long term effects of CNS directed treatment for children with leukemia. In addition to her work at CHB, Dr. Turek is a Lecturer at Curry College.
 Member: Randall Otto, Ph.D
Dr. Otto earned his doctorate at the University of Missouri at Columbia after completing an internship at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis.
He then worked as Director of Rehabilitation Psychology at a 250-bed rehabilitation center in Memphis before moving to the Boston area in
1991 to join the Neuropsychology Department at Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital. He continues to consult there as Director of Neurobehavioral Services after entering private practice in 1999. Areas of clinical and research interest have included unawareness of disability after neurological insult, functional capacity in dementia, and cognitive outcome after TBI. He has been a member of MNS since 1991, and is a member of INS, NAN, and APA.
 Member: Maureen O'Connor, Psy.D, ABCN
Dr. Maureen O’Connor completed her undergraduate studies at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. She earned her doctoral degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and completed her predoctoral residency in neuropsychology at Yale University School of Medicine. She completed one year of postdoctoral residency at Cornell Weill Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan and two additional years of advanced postdoctoral residency at the Bedford Veterans Administration Hospital, Department of Psychology/Boston University School of Medicine, Alzheimer ’s Disease Center, Department of Neurology. She is currently the Director of Neuropsychology at the Bedford Veterans Administration Hospital and Director of Cognitive Rehabilitation at the Bedford Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, with an academic appointment at Boston University. She was awarded Board Certification in Clinical Neuropsychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology in June 2008.
 Member: Michael Cirillo, Ph.D, ABPP
Dr. Cirillo received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas - Austin in 1997 with a minor in Neuropsychology. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital and a two-year Clinical Research Training Program at Harvard Medical School studying the neuropsychology and neuroanatomy of schizophrenia. Now a neuropsychologist in private practice in Worcester, he sees a wide range of child and adult cases referred mostly by neurologists, pediatricians, and child psychologists and therapists. He was certified by the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABPP-CN) in 2006.
 Member: Linda Zoe Podbros, Ph.D
Dr. Podbros has been an active member of MNS since the beginning
of the organization. From 1991 to 1994, she served on the
MNS Board, and from 1990 to 1995 served as the Chair of Publications and edited the MNS Newsletter. Prior to beginning graduate school, she worked with Dr. Nelson Butters at the Boston VA. She then went on to Stony Brook University to work with Dr. John Stamm on his seminal primate frontal lobe research. In 1976-77, she spent a year working with Dr. Maria Wyke at the National Hospital for Neurological Disorders in London, England, involved in both clinical work and research. She completed her Ph.D., with Parkinson patients, in 1981. Over the years, Dr. Podbros has served on the staff of a number of rehabilitation hospitals -- Braintree Hospital, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Spaulding Hospital, and the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands (RHCI), working primarily with adult patients with neurological disorders. In 1995, she was part of the startup of RHCI, with the responsibility to develop and direct adult neuropsychological services. Although she continues to be on the staff at RHCI, she recently opened an office in Sandwich, where she maintain a busy outpatient practice. In addition to private practice, she serves as a Consultant to the Massachusetts Statewide Head Injury Program, a role she has enjoyed since 1988. In addition to her role as a current MNS Board Member, she is a member of the MNS Professional Affairs Committee and serves as the MNS delegate to the Federation of Association in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
 Member: Cynthia F. Levinson, Ph.D
Cynthia F. Levinson, Ph.D. received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Boston University in 1979. She has maintained a small private practice since 1980 and worked in child guidance and community mental health clinics for 11 years, with special interests in psychological testing and early childhood. During this time, she supervised predoctoral and postdoctoral interns and led psychological testing and psychotherapy seminars. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Children's Hospital, Boston, in 1985. Since 1989, she has focused exclusively on the practice of clinical neuropsychology. She has worked in cognitive rehabilitation programs for adults with acquired brain injury at The Greenery Rehabilitation Center and Braintree Hospital and currently focuses primarily on neuropsychological evaluation of children aged 6 to 18 and adults.
 Member: Michelle L. Imber, Ph.D., ABPP-CN
Dr. Imber completed her graduate degree in clinical psychology at New York University, focusing in neural science and neuropsychology. Her dissertation in the area of visual neuroscience investigated the perception of illusory contours in humans. She interned at McLean Hospital in Belmont, and subsequently completed her residency in clinical neuropsychology through Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard-Partners Consortium in Neuropsychology. She has worked in a variety of settings, including university teaching, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient assessment, and clinical drug trials, and currently maintains a private practice providing inpatient and outpatient neuropsychological assessment services to children and adults. Dr. Imber earned board certification in clinical neuropsychology in 2008 through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), and is an active member of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), ABPP, the Massachusetts Psychological Association (MPA), and APA/Division 40 in addition to MNS. She currently sits on the MPA Assessment Committee and co-chairs the MNS Professional Affairs Committee.
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