My bio
Dawn Bowers is a Professor and clinical/research neuropsychologist in the Departments of Clinical & Health Psychology and Neurology at the University of Florida. She is a UF Research Foundation Professor, the Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at the Fixel Institute, and neuropsychology director for the UF Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration program. Dr. Bowers received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, interned at Boston University/Boston Veterans Administration Hospital (with an externship at the Framingham Heart Project), and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral neurology at the University of Florida. She is internationally known for her expertise in neurocognitive and emotion changes associated with age related disorders including Parkinson disease, Essential Tremor, Alzheimer's disease and other neurologic disorders. Her research has spanned laterality, attention and memory, and neuropsychology of emotion using TMS, ERP, psychophysiology, near infrared stimulation, computational modeling, and face digitizing. She has received continuous research funding by NIH and other foundations since 1981. She has over 225 peer-reviewed research articles, over 400 peer-reviewed research presentations, 1 co-authored book, and 1 clinical test. She is strongly committed to clinical and research training of predoctoral and post-doctoral fellows and is MPI of an NINDS-funded T32 in Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration. She sees patients clinically for neuropsychological assessment and intervention at the Fixel Center. Her lab website: https://cogneuro.phhp.ufl.edu
Board certifications
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Clinical Neuropsychology
ABBP-CN
Education
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Fellowship - Behavioral Neurology
University of Florida, 1979
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Ph.D. - Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology
University of Florida, 1978
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Internship
Boston VAMC, 1976-1977
My areas of focus
Specialties
Subspecialties
Gender
Female
Accomplishments
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Fellows Committee, APA
American Psychological Association, 2024-2027
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Distinguished Alumna Award
UF College of Public Health and Health Professions, 2022
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Distinguished Faculty Award
UF Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, 2021
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Term Professorship
University of Florida, 2017-2020
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Chair, Fellows Committee Division 40 (Neuropsychology)
American Psychological Association, 2016-2023
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Dissertation Mentoring Award
University of Florida, 2015
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Edith Kaplan Neuropsychology Award
Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society, 2014
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Paul Satz Career Mentoring Award
International Neuropsychology Society, 2014
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Fellow, Division 40 (Neuropsychology)
American Psychological Association, 2013
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UF Foundation Research Professor
University of Florida, 2006-2009