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Jeff Kreutzer, Ph.D.

Director
Psychology and Neuropsychology

Kreutzer is a professor with appointments in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Division of Neurological Surgery in the Department of Surgery. Within the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation he serves as vice chair of the research division and serves as the director of the rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology service. A clinical neuropsychologist with an active practice, Kreutzer coordinates the delivery of psychological and neuropsychological services to both inpatients and outpatients who have a wide variety of neurological disabilities. He has nearly 15 years of clinical experience as a specialist in brain injury rehabilitation.

As an active consumer advocate, Kreutzer was a founding member of the Virginia Head Injury Foundation. For many years he served on the Board of Directors for both the Richmond area and Virginia Head Injury Foundation. Kreutzer was a recipient of the VHIF Timmy Tiernan Award (1986), and a recipient of Certificates of Appreciation from the Richmond and Massachusetts Head Injury Foundations. In November 1994 he was given the Sheldon Berrol Clinical Service Award by the National Head Injury Foundation.

Kreutzer is active in research and has co-authored more than 75 publications, most in the area of traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation. Co-editor of the journal, NeuroRehabilitation, he also has served as co-editor of three recently published textbooks focused on vocational rehabilitation, community reintegration and cognitive rehabilitation. Kreutzer has extensive grant management experience and currently serves as project director for two federal grants focused on brain injury rehabilitation. Projects, totaling more than $12 million, have been funded through the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and International Business Machines Corporation.

Clinical specialties

• Neuropsychology.
• Rehabilitation psychology.
• Disability.
• Family and individual psychotherapy.
• Vocational and cognitive rehabilitation.
• Substance abuse.

Patient office: West Hospital

Education

• College: Bowling Green State University, Ohio
• Internship: Portland VA Medical Center, Ore.
• Fellowship: Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center

Online articles and publications

A Multi-Center Investigation of Neurobehavioral Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury
Lori Keyser, B.A., Adrienne D. Witol, PsyD., Jeffrey S. Kreutzer PhD., Dept of PM&R, VCU/Medical College of Virginia, Mitchell Rosenthal, PhD., Wayne State University School of Medicine