Kimberly Alfano Ph.D., ABPP-ABCN

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Dr. Alfano is a ABPP-ABCN Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Barrington Psychiatric Center. She has experience evaluating patients suffering from mild to severe traumatic brain injuries and other neurological conditions. For the past seven years she has done criminal evaluations as a panel member for San Bernardino County.

Dr. Alfano also works at Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles as a full time Neuropsychologist in the areas of rehabilitation and post acute care. Prior to her affiliation with Cedars, Dr. Alfano worked as the primary neuropsychologist at Patton State Hospital. Her duties included evaluating brain injured inmates, sex offenders, patients asserting defenses of insanity and/or incompetence, and differentiating between organic and psychogenic amnesia on murder cases. Dr. Alfano has taught seminars on neuropsychology and supervised neuropsychological and forensic evaluations performed by interns and post-doctoral fellows. She also developed and led a day treatment/cognitive rehabilitation program for the cognitively impaired. Dr. Alfano is involved in ongoing research at Patton State Hospital studying the correlative relationships between psychopathy and frontal lobe functioning.

In 1994, Dr. Alfano received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the California School for Professional Psychology with an emphasis on clinical and health psychology. In 1998, she completed her post-doctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. She has published and presented extensively on neuropsychological testing and malingering. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the National Academy of Neuropsychology, the International Neuropsychological Society, and Division 40 of APA. She taught and led the neuropsychological practicum for students involved in a joint program between UCLA and Pepperdine University.

Specialties: Personal Injury, Testamentary Capacity, Brain Injury, Toxic Exposure, Neuropsychology, Neuropsychiatry, Treatment, and more (see C.V.).

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