Bernice Marcopulos, Ph.D., ABPP

Bernice A. Marcopulos, Ph.D., ABPP received her B.A. (High Honors) from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She is Board Certified in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology. Currently she is Associate Professor of Graduate Psychology at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia (UVA) Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Marcopulos was the Director of the Western State Hospital (WSH) Neuropsychology Laboratory in Staunton, VA for 20 years where she co-directed the post-doctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology. She taught psychological assessment in the Department of Psychology at UVA and supervised interns, practicum students and post-doctoral fellows. Her research and clinical interests include the effects of education and culture on neuropsychological testing, dementia, schizophrenia, and criminal forensic issues. She is the co-editor of Clinical Neuropsychological Foundations of Schizophrenia (2012). She was a Fulbright Fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Warsaw in 1994 and was elected as a Fellow in the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the American Psychological Association (APA). She was recently on the APA Committee for Psychological Tests and Assessment and is a consulting editor for the journal The Clinical Neuropsychologist. She has served as a Board Member and Oral Examiner for the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN), and she currently chairs the Examination Committee of the ABCN. Dr. Marcopulos is serving her second term as Secretary of the International Neuropsychological Society