Congrats to Katherine Chang on the 2025 SCN Dissertation Award!

Katherine Chang is a recent graduate of the CUNY Clinical Psychology- Neuropsychology Doctoral program at Queens, and is currently a Postdoctoral Neuropsychology Fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. We are proud to announce that Katherine is the 2025 Dissertation Award Winner for the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (Division 40 of the American Psychological Association). The work was recognized for its strength of findings and overall importance / impact on the field and only one is awarded per year in the field of clinical neuropsychology. Katherine will make a presentation at an upcoming conference, and she will join the Educational Advisory Committee within the SCN.

We are extremely proud of Katherine and look forward to many more of her accomplishments!

See below for some of her work:

Chang, K.H., Wang, C., Qin, J., Katz., M.J., Byrd, D.A., Lipton, R.B., & Rabin, L.A. (2025). Comparing predictive validity for four MCI classifications in demographically-diverse community-dwelling individuals: Results from the Einstein Aging Study (EAS). Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 31(1), 32-41.

Chang, K.H., Wang, C., Nester, C.O., Katz, M.J., Byrd, D.A., Lipton, R.B., & Rabin, L. (2023). Examining the role of participant and study partner report in widely-used classification approaches of mild cognitive impairment in demographically-diverse community dwelling individuals: Results from the Einstein Aging Study. Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience. 15:1221768.