The Pediatric Neuropsychology track will offer one position for the 2026-2027 training year. The Pediatric Neuropsychology track intern will gain expertise in neuropsychological services provided to an exclusively pediatric population.
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 and Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology.
Clinical training sites
DHMC outpatient pediatric neuropsychology services
DHMC is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire. DHMC is the regional academic medical center where faculty and trainees of Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth provide direct care to patients from throughout New England. The Pediatric Neuropsychology Service at DHMC primarily serves an outpatient population, with occasional medical inpatient consultations. Referrals come from a wide variety of sources such as Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Genetics, Hematology/Oncology, and Internal Medicine, as well as other medical sections at DHMC. Referrals also come from sources in the regional communities including school systems, health care providers, and community mental health centers. Patients are referred for evaluation of problems related to cognition, learning, and performance, secondary to underlying conditions such as epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, genetic syndromes, childhood cancer and brain tumor, and intellectual and developmental disabilities. DHMC is also considered the academic home of the internship program, and serves at the educational hub for the program. Interns complete their didactic training elements at DHMC as well.
Outpatient Psychiatry Clinics at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is located in Lebanon, New Hampshire. DHMC is the regional academic medical center where faculty and trainees of Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth provide direct care to patients from throughout New England. The Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at DHMC is maintained by the Department of Psychiatry to provide child and adult services and manage the hospital's psychiatric inpatient and partial hospitalization units. Psychiatric emergency services are provided through the hospital's emergency department. Approximately 10,000 patients per year receive some type of service from one of the Department's units at DHMC. Approximately 4,000 adults and 1,300 children receive outpatient medication management and psychotherapy per year. Child and Pediatric Psychology track interns spend a substantial proportion of their training year providing services to the DHMC population. DHMC is also considered the academic home of the internship program, and serves at the educational hub for the program. Interns complete their didactic training elements at DHMC as well.
Adolescent Medical Psychiatry at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
The Adolescent Medical Psychiatry (AMP) unit is an inpatient psychiatric care unit located at DHMC. AMP provides inpatient care to adolescents aged 12-17 experiencing mental health crises. AMP is a six-bed unit staffed by an interdisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, nurses, social workers, and other mental health professionals alongside trainees from corresponding training programs. Services provided by interns include diagnostic assessments, group psychotherapy, and other psychosocial interventions as part of a milieu therapy approach to psychiatric conditions affecting patients admitted to the AMP unit.
Training faculty (pediatric neuropsychology track)
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 joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at DHMC and Geisel School of Medicine in 2014. He serves as the Director of Neuropsychology, as well as overseeing 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.