Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator

Overview

Jennifer Duncan Davis, PhD, is an Associate Professor, Clinician Educator, of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.  Dr. Davis earned her PhD from the University of Utah and completed her residency training in the neuropsychology track of the Brown Clinical Psychology Training Program. She completed a clinical fellowship in Neuropsychology at Rhode Island Hospital as part of Brown's Clinical Psychology postdoctoral fellowship program (neuropsychology track) and completed a T32 research fellowship in Aging and Dementia at Brown.

Dr. Davis is board-certified in Neuropsychology and serves as the Director of the Neuropsychology Program at Brown University Health (Rhode Island, The Miriam, and Newport Hospitals) and attending neuropsychologist at Rhode Island Hospital. She specializes in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, Parkinson's disease and atypical movement disorders, and normal pressure hydrocephalus. Dr. Davis performs neuropsychological evaluations for diagnostic and treatment planning purposes and is a consulting member of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center, Movement Disorders Program, and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Program. She serves as Director of the APA-accredited postdoctoral Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Program within the Clinical Psychology Training Program at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a clinical supervisor for Brown’s APA-accredited clinical psychology internship and fellowship programs. 

Dr. Davis investigates behavioral interventions for dementia prevention and dementia care and functional capacities in clinical populations. She co-directs the Researching Everyday Activities of Living (REAL) Lab, in which she provides research mentorship to neuropsychology trainees within the Brown system. 

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