Bauer elected INS president

July 10, 2009

Russell M. Bauer, Ph.D., professor and chair of the department of clinical and health psychology in the College of Public Health and Health Professions, has been elected president of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), the largest scientific organization in the field. Bauer is the fourth University of Florida faculty member to be elected to the presidency of INS in its 42-year history. Paul Satz, Ph.D., Kenneth Heilman, M.D., and Leslie Gonzalez-Rothi, Ph.D., previously held the office. Bauer is board certified by the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology and is past president of the Clinical Neuropsychology Division of the American Psychological Association. His research involves clinical disturbances of memory and perceptual function, preclinical detection of dementia, and hippocampal function in epilepsy and cognitive aging.