Prof. Jorge A. Herrera Pino
I obtained a Ph.D. in clinical and educational neuropsychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA. I subsequently did a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in clinical and pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Alcala in Madrid, Spain, where I subsequently obtained a doctor of medicine degree. I am currently the executive director of the Neurobehavioral Institute of Miami and a full professor of psychiatry and behavioral health at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA. I was the Director of the Department of Neuropsychology of the West Gables Rehabilitation Hospital in Miami, Florida for 30 years, where I worked with patients with different neurological conditions, such as, but not limited to, traumatic brain injury, cerebro-vascular accidents, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and early stages of dementing disorders. I have been a consulting neuropsychologist for the Capital Case Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of the United States in the field of intellectual disability. I have been a peer reviewer for several journals. In addition to that, I have chaired 58 doctoral dissertations in the field of brain-behavior relationship. I was also the founder and director for 10 years of the doctoral program in applied cognitive neuroscience of Maimonides University in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My expertise is including brain-behavior relationship, traumatic brain injury, dementia, cerebro-vascular accident, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington disease, neurofibromatosis, phenylketonuria, Prader-Willi syndrome.