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Dawn Bowers, PhD, ABPP-cn

Clinical Neuropsychologist

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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

  • Clinical Neuropsychology

    ABBP-CN

Education

  • Fellowship - Behavioral Neurology

    University of Florida, 1979

  • Ph.D. - Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology

    University of Florida, 1978

  • Internship

    Boston VAMC, 1976-1977

My areas of focus

Specialties

Subspecialties

Gender

Female

Accomplishments

  • Distinguished Alumna Award

    UF College of Public Health and Health Professions, 2022

  • Distinguished Faculty Award

    UF Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, 2021

  • Term Professorship

    University of Florida, 2017-2020

  • Chair, Fellows Committee Division 40 (Neuropsychology)

    American Psychological Association, 2016-2023

  • Dissertation Mentoring Award

    University of Florida, 2015

  • Edith Kaplan Neuropsychology Award

    Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society, 2014

  • Paul Satz Career Mentoring Award

    International Neuropsychology Society, 2014

  • Fellow, Division 40 (Neuropsychology)

    American Psychological Association, 2013

  • UF Foundation Research Professor

    University of Florida, 2006-2009