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Gerard Gioia, PhD
Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center
Center for Neurosciences Research (CNR)
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970
301-765-5430
ggioia@childrensnational.org
Education & Training
| Institution & Location |
Degree |
Year(s) |
Field of Study |
| Franklin & Marshall College , Lancaster, PA |
BA |
1974 |
Psychology |
| University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill, NC |
PhD |
1984 |
School Psychology |
| The Children's Hospital of Boston ( Harvard Medical School), Boston, MA |
Postdoctoral Fellowship |
1987 |
Pediatric Neuropsychology |
Research Interests
Gerard Gioia, PhD, is a pediatric neuropsychologist and the director of the Pediatric Neuropsychology Program at Children’s National Medical Center. He also directs the hospital’s Safe Concussion Outcome, Recovery & Education (SCORE) Program and the Neurobehavioral Evaluation Core laboratories of the General Clinical Research Center and the Mental Retardation (GCRC) and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (MRDDRC). He is an associate professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Gioia received his BA in Psychology from Franklin and Marshall College and his doctorate from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with predoctoral internship training in pediatric psychology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and postdoctoral fellowship training in pediatric neuropsychology at Boston Children's Hospital. He has a particular expertise in mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and disorders involving the executive functions. He is also involved in research of the neuropsychological outcomes of children with brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurofibromatosis (NF). Dr. Gioia is the principal investigator of a multi-site research study of mild TBI in children and adolescents, funded by the Centers for Disease Control. He is a principal author of an innovative set of clinical tests of the executive functions in children, the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), which is now widely used in clinical and research centers around the world.
Clinical Interests
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Publications
View a partial list of publications for Gerard Gioia through the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database.
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