Clinical Director of Pediatric Neuropsychology
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Melissa Sutcliffe, Ph.D., ABPP, is the Clinical Director of Pediatric Neuropsychology at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is board certified in clinical neuropsychology and a board-certified subspecialist in pediatric neuropsychology. Dr. Sutcliffe obtained her PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida. She completed her clinical internship at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and a pediatric neuropsychology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Sutcliffe provides both inpatient and outpatient neuropsychology services to children, adolescents, and young adults with a wide variety of medical conditions affecting the neuroaxis. She has a particular interest in acquired brain injury, staffing CHP’s transdisciplinary Acquired Brain Injury Clinic in addition to inpatient and outpatient evaluation responsibilities. She also helped develop and staffs the multidisciplinary epilepsy surgery clinic. Dr. Sutcliffe is involved with several research projects including studies looking at cognitive outcomes in adolescents and young adults with an RNS device for intractable epilepsy as well as cognitive outcomes in PKU across the lifespan. In all these roles she supervises neuropsychology trainees of all levels, helps teach neuroanatomy to neuropsychology fellows, and is involved in the teaching of medical trainees in the hospital and system at large.
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9 - Lifespan Neuropsychology: Application for Congenital Disorders
Thursday, October 26, 2023
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET