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Martha Denckla

 
Dir. - Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic - Kennedy Krieger Institute
 
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Company Name : Kennedy Krieger Institute
 
Company Website : www.kennedykrieger.org
 
Company Address : 707 North Broadway
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Martha Denckla Profile :
Dir. - Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic - Kennedy Krieger Institute
 
Martha Denckla Biography :

Dr. Martha Bridge Denckla is a research scientist at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is also a Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Biographical Sketch:

Dr. Denckla graduated summa cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and went on to graduate cum laude from Harvard Medical School in 1962, where she trained with Dr. Norman Geschwind in Behavioral Neurology. Dr. Denckla served residencies at Beth Israel Hospital and Veterans Administration Hospital, both in Boston, as well as Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC. After positions in Neurology at College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York and Harvard Medical School, she served as the Director of Learning Disabilities Clinic at Children’s Hospital. She came to the Maryland area in 1982 to serve as Chief of the Section on Autism & Related Disorders at the Developmental Neurology Branch of the Neurological Disorders Program at the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NIH). She came to Johns Hopkins and KKI in 1987. Dr. Denckla is currently Director of the Developmental Cognitive Neurology Clinic at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, and holds the Batza Family Endowed Chair at Kennedy Krieger. She directs an NICHD-funded center entitled Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities Research Center and is Principal Investigator of an NIH funded research project concerning girls with ADHD.

Dr. Denckla is past President of both the International Neuropsychology Society, and also of the Behavioral Neurology Society. Dr. Denckla has been awarded the Lucy G. Moses Prize in Clinical Neurology at Columbia University, the Norman Geschwind Memorial Lectureship at Orton Society, the Rita G. Rudel Memorial Lectureship at Columbia University, the Herbert Birch Memorial Lectureship at the International Neuropsychology Society, the Soriano Guest Lectureship of the American Neurological Association, and the Bernard Sachs Lectureship of Child Neurological Society. Most recently, she was the American Academy of Mental Retardation Research Center awardee.

 
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