Yuri Shishido, PHD

Yuri Shishido, Ph.D., is a neuropsychologist at Children's National Hospital. Dr. Shishido received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Georgia State University with an emphasis on neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. She completed her internship in pediatric neuropsychology at UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior and her postdoctoral fellowship at the Kennedy Krieger Institute/Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Approached from a broad, integrative framework that includes neurobehavioral (e.g., executive function), contextual (e.g., parenting), and biological (e.g., neural systems) factors and their interplay, Dr. Shishido's research focuses on understanding the role and measurement of executive function in elucidating developmental trajectories of neuropsychological outcomes across diverse populations and settings.