Members

Keith Owen Yeates, PhD, RPsych, ABPP-CN, is the Ronald and Irene Ward Chair in Pediatric Brain Injury and Professor in the Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics, and Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Calgary, in Alberta, Canada. He leads the University of Calgary Integrated Concussion Research Program, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute Traumatic Brain Injury NeuroTeam, and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute Behaviour and Developing Brain Theme. He has received >$15 million in external grant support from NIH, CIHR, and other agencies for his research, which focuses on the outcomes of childhood brain disorders, particularly traumatic brain injury, and has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as 5 edited or co-authored books. He has received a number of honors and awards: Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA); Canadian Association of Child Neurology John Tibbles Lecturer; Visiting Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society; Charles Matthew Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; and the Arthur Benton Award from the International Neuropsychological Society. Dr. Yeates has served as President of the Society of Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Psychological Association and the Association of Postdoctoral Programs in Clinical Neuropsychology, and is currently President-Elect of the International Neuropsychological Society.