Stephen Rao, Ph.D. 

Stephen M. Rao, Ph.D., ABPP-Cn is the Ralph and Luci Schey Chair and Director of the Schey Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging at the Cleveland Clinic and Professor of Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Wayne State University (Detroit) and completed a predoctoral internship at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center (Chicago). 

Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic in May of 2007, he was Director of the Functional Imaging Research Center and Professor of Neurology (Neuropsychology) at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). He has authored over 130 scientific papers/book chapters and edited three books. His primary research areas involve the application of functional MRI to study memory, selective attention; motor control; temporal information processing; and conceptual reasoning in healthy young and older participants, individuals in the preclinical stage of Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and patients with multiple sclerosis and Traumatic Brain Injury. He has been a recipient of a National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award and has received funding from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, US Department of Defense, Charles A. Dana Foundation, and National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 

He is the Editor of Neuropsychology (published by the American Psychological Association), has served as the Associate Editor of Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, and has been a member of the editorial boards of eight other journals. He is the Past President of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) and has served on the board of trustees of the INS, board of directors of the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology, and served as chairman of the scientific program committee for the INS annual meeting. 

Ralph and Luci Schey Chair 
Director of the Schey Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health 
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Department of Neurology
9500 Euclid Avenue, Mail Code U10
Cleveland, OH 44195
raos2@ccf.org 

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