The Pediatric Neuropsychology track will offer one position for the 2027-2028 training year. The Pediatric Neuropsychology track intern will gain expertise in neuropsychological services provided to an exclusively pediatric population children, adolescents, and young adults.
In addition to receiving clinical neuropsychology training at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC), the intern will spend one day per week provided intervention services to children and adolescents. This includes psychotherapy and diagnostic evaluations in our Outpatient Psychiatry Clinics for the first six months of the internship training year, and group psychotherapy in our Adolescent Medical Psychiatry unit—an inpatient psychiatric unit for youth.
Training will encompass neuropsychological evaluation, team-based care, academic consultation, and forensic clinical psychology intervention and assessment. The intern’s experience will be rounded out by formal didactics with both neuropsychology and clinical psychology trainees at DHMC, exposure to neuroimaging, and protected time for pediatric neuropsychology research.
Interns will also participate in the multidisciplinary Epilepsy Surgical Planning Conference. Specific neuropsychology didactics are offered in conjunction with the Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Residency Program at DHMC, including Sports Neuropsychology, the Business of Neuropsychology, and Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology.
Clinical training sites
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Training faculty (pediatric neuropsychology track)
Kira M. Alexander, PhD (University of Central Arkansas) – Dr. Alexander joined the faculty of DHMC and Geisel School of Medicine in 2025 as the lead clinical psychologist of the Adolescent Medical Psychiatry unit. Dr. Alexander specializes in the inpatient psychiatric treatment of diagnostically-complex adolescents presenting with acute and high-risk behaviors. She utilizes a variety of modalities to provide evidence-based individual, group, and family therapy to adolescents and their caregivers. Dr. Alexander's research interests focus on trauma-informed care, program development, family dynamics, and high-acuity behaviors.
Sarah A. Clark, PhD (Florida State University) – Dr. Clark completed her internship and fellowship at Dartmouth Health and joined the faculty at DHMC and Geisel School of Medicine in 2025. Dr. Clark provides outpatient psychotherapy to children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, body-focused repetitive behaviors, and tics. She primarily uses cognitive behavioral therapy and exposure and response prevention to help children and adolescents face their fears while coaching caregivers to systematically decrease family accommodation. Additionally, Dr. Clark is part of the neuroimmune psychiatric disorders team, which focuses on treating children with PANS/PANDAS.
Toni Curry, PhD (University of Kansas) – Dr. Curry is a clinical neuropsychologist working with pediatric and young adult populations. She is also a nationally certified school psychologist. Dr. Curry joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at DHMC and Geisel School of Medicine in 2024, and specializes in neurodevelopmental assessment. Her current clinical and research interests include the expansion of assessment and intervention practices to better support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
Erica M. Krapf, PhD (University of New Mexico) – Dr. Krapf is a pediatric neuropsychologist at DHMC and assistant professor in psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth since 2025. Dr. Amato’s clinical work focuses on the neuropsychological evaluation of children from a developmental perspective. Dr. Krapf specializes in neuropsychological evaluation and assessment of children and adolescents with complex medical comorbidities, particularly in transitional age youth.
Jonathan Lichtenstein, PsyD, MBA (Widener University) – Dr. Lichtenstein is the lead neuropsychologist for Dartmouth Health and an associate professor of psychiatry, pediatrics, and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. He joined the faculty of the department of psychiatry at DHMC and Geisel School of Medicine in 2014. Dr. Lichtenstein serves as the director of neuropsychological services at DHMC Neuropsychology, and oversees the fellowship program and clinical services in pediatric neuropsychology and sports neuropsychology. He specializes in the clinical management of sport-related concussions in adolescents and traumatic brain injury across the lifespan. His research focuses on the development of novel assessment and intervention practices for vulnerable pediatric populations to ultimately improve their quality of life.