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Mailing Address
Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society
125 Nashua Street, Boston MA 02114
(617) 742-6719
e-mail: admin@massneuropsychology.org
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Board Members
 President: Joel Rosenbaum,
Ph.D
As a doctoral student under the mentorship of Gerald C. Davison,
Ph.D, at University of Southern California Dr. Rosenbaum earned
his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. Clinical internship toward
the Ph.D. with specialization in Neuropsychology was with
Wilfred Van Gorp, Ph.D. at West Los Angeles Veterans Administration
Medical Center. Subsequent, post doctoral fellowships were
completed in the Neurology Department at Boston University
School of Medicine (Teaching Fellow) and at New England Rehabilitation
Hospital (Clinical Fellow in Neuropsychology). Having served
many years as Senior Neuropsychologist at Braintree Rehabilitation
Hospital on Boston's south shore, he is now in private practice
at Quincy Medical Center (an affiliate of Boston University
School of Medicine) providing neuropsychological services
across the lifespan emphasizing a lifespan-developmental approach.
Areas of specialization include dementia, cerbrovascular insults,
other neurodegenerative disorders, traumatic brain injury,
and Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity Disorder (Adults
and Children). Dr. Rosenbaum is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Current academic appointments are as Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine, and as Lecturer in Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.
President-elect, Co-Director of Continuing Education: Maxine
Krengle,
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.
 Past-President:
Dana
L. Penney,
Ph.D
Dana L. Penney, Ph.D. is a Clinical Neuropsychologist in
the Department of Neurology at the Lahey Clinic Medical
Center and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology
at Tufts University Medical School. Dr. Penney works closely
with neurology, neurosurgery, general internal medicine
and psychiatry in the differential diagnosis and treatment
of complex neurological disorders, is on several neurosurgical
teams including comprehensive epilepsy and movement disorders
teams, and has a strong interest in the dementias. She has
co-developed the Center for Memory and Cognitive Disorders
(CMCD), a multidisciplinary dementia program at the Lahey
Clinic that has done NIH supported research, educated residents,
and improved patient care by organizing a team-based approach
to the care of complex patients. Research interests are
in the dementias, Parkinson’s Disease
and Epilepsy. Dr. Penney earned her doctorate in Clinical
Psychology at the University of Rhode Island and completed
her internship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the West Haven
VAMC and Yale School of Medicine.
 Co-Director,
Continuing Education: Sandra
Sheehan, 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. Research interests have included
the effects of toxic exposures on cognitive and behavior
development, neuroplasticity and development, effects of
early prefrontal lesions on outcome.
Director of Professional Affairs: Kira
Armstrong, Ph.D.
Dr. Kira Armstrong earned her PhD 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), and is a Member at Large for the American Academy
of Clinical
Neuropsychologists (AACN) Board of Directors. Through this
capacity she is
involved in a number of committees devoted to professional
affairs and
training issues in neuropsychology. Dr. Armstrong previously
directed a
hospital-based pediatric neuropsychology service in Chicago.
She is
currently directing the pediatric neuropsychology postdoctoral
fellowship
training program and is the lead neuropsychologist in the
pediatric
neuropsychology department at the Cambridge Health Alliance. She
also
maintains a part-time private practice and is the Director
of the MNS
Professional Affairs Committee (PAC).
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 Treasurer:
Gail Grodzinsky, Ph.D., ABPdN
Gail Grodzinsky, Ph.D., ABPdN received her Master's degree
from New York University, her Ph.D. from Boston College (Department
of Counseling, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods)
and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School,
Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital. Her interest
in pediatric neuropsychology was a natural path following
her career as a learning disabilities specialist in public
schools (New York and Massachusetts). Dr. Grodzinsky is a
frequent guest speaker at the Harvard Medical School Cambridge
Series and the University of California San Diego Medical
School on ADHD, Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD) and
Subtypes of NLD. In addition to her active independent practice
providing neuropsychological evaluations for children and
adolescents, she offers consultation and in-service workshops
to many school systems in New England.
Membership Director: Sara
J. Hoffschmidt,
Ph.D.
Dr. Hoffschmidt received her Master’s and doctoral degrees from University
of Virginia before completing her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral training
in neuropsychology through Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Mental Health
Center and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Currently she is a Staff Neuropsychologist
at the Behavioral Neurology Unit at BIDMC and Instructor in Psychology, Department
of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, as well as in private practice. She has
focused on neuropsychological assessment of children and adults, with specialization
in learning disabilities, ADHD, dementia, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, multiple
sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease.
Member: Carmen
Armengol, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCNl
Carmen G. Armengol de la Miyar, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN
Associate Professor
Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology
Northeastern University
Member: Raquelle
Mesholam-Gately, Ph.D.
Raquelle Mesholam-Gately, Ph.D. is the Director of Neuropsychology
for the Commonwealth Research Center at the Massachusetts
Mental Health Center Division of Public Psychiatry in the
Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center, and she holds a full-time faculty appointment as an
Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
Dr. Mesholam received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with
an emphasis in Neuropsychology, from Drexel University. She
completed her predoctoral training the University of Virginia
Medical Center and her postdoctoral training in adult neuropsychology
at The Cambridge Hospital of HMS.
Dr. Mesholam-Gately’s research interests include olfactory
functioning in neuropsychiatric illnesses, brain reward circuitry
in schizophrenia, and other neurobehavioral aspects of schizophrenia
such as neuropsychological characterization of the first psychotic
episode, predictors of suicidality, comorbid substance use
disorders, and the role of spirituality in treating psychosis.
 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 Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences.
 Member: Paul A. Spiers, Ph.D.
Dr.
Spiers received his Bachelor of Arts with First Honors in
Abnormal Psychology from McGill University and then conducted
behavioral research on for the Ministry of Health and Welfare,
Canada. He moved to Clark University to complete his graduate
training and there began working with Dr. Edith Kaplan. He
was a Summer fellow at the Boston VAMC and was invited to
be an International Fellow by Professor Henry Hecaen at the
Unite de Recherches Neuropsychologiques et Neurolinguistiques
in Paris. This led to a series of chapters on Acalculia.
Returning
from France, Dr. Spiers completed his APA internship with
Drs. Kaplan, Harold Goodglass, D. Frank Benson, and Norman
Geschwind. Dr. Gescwind then offered to have him join the
staff of his newly-formed Behavioral Neurology Unit at Boston’s
Beth Israel Hospital, where Dr. Spiers worked with Drs. Sandra
Weintraub and Marsel Mesulam. He became co-director of the
Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and was a member of the multidisciplinary
team that conducted epilepsy surgery with Drs. Howard Blume
and Donald Schomer. From this collaboration emerged several
research publications and he co-authored three chapters dealing
with Temporolimbic Epilepsy and Behavior.
After a decade at
the Beth Israel, Dr. Spiers was invited to the Clinical Research
Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to supervise
research on Aspartame and later on Citicoline. Dr. Spiers
still conducts research investigating the effect of drugs
and nutritional products on neuropsychological and neurobehavioral
functioning. He has acted as a
consultant to pharmaceutical companies, both nationally and
internationally, and has participated in new drug approval
hearings before the Food and Drug Administration. The focus
of his recent research has been on treating the memory loss
associated with aging and early dementia, as well as the
treatment of cognitive deficits as a result of stroke or
brain injury. TBI is something about which he has considerable
personal insight, having sustained a severe traumatic brain
injury himself 13 years ago, at the same time as he had a
spinal cord injury that left him paraplegic, when he fell
from horseback. Never one to miss a publication opportunity,
he reported himself as a case study in JINS.
Dr. Spiers now
is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University
School of Medicine where he teaches Forensic Neuropsychology
in the Behavioral Neurosciences Program. He
also has a private practice where, since 1984, he has examined
clients in Probate, Civil, Criminal, and Appellate matters. His
testimony has resulted in two legal precedents in Massachusetts
and he has consulted to the Attorneys General of several states
and to the Department of Justice in Washington.
 Student
Representative: Daniel
Seichepine, M.A. is a third year doctoral student in the
Boston
University Clinical Psychology program specializing in Neuropsychology.
He joined the program following a post-baccalaureate fellowship
within
the Geriatric Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute
on Mental
Health where his interests in memory and aging were strengthened
while
working with individuals at risk for developing Alzheimer's
disease.
His current research, under the guidance of Dr. Alice Cronin-Golomb,
is
geared toward better understanding the effect of visual factors
on
cognition in aging and age-related neurological disorders
such as
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. In addition
to research
related activities, he has completed externships at the Center
for
Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, the Psychological
Services Center at Boston University, and the Brigham Behavioral
Neurology Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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