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Director, Neuropsychology Department
Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital
Schenectady, New York
NAME: Gillen, Robert
POSITION TITLE: Manager, Department of Psychology (Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital) and Neuropsychologist (Albany Medical Center Hospital)
EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION DEGREE
(if applicable) Completion Date
MM/YYYY FIELD OF STUDY
Fordham University, New York, NY B.S. 05/1976 Psychology
State University of New York, Albany, NY Ph.D. 12/1982 Psychology
(Clinical Psychology)
School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT Internship 06/1981 Clinical Psychology
College of Medicine, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE Postdoctoral Fellowship 08/1982 Clinical Neuropsychology
A. POSITIONS AND HONORS
Previous Positions and Employment
1982-1988 Clinical Neuropsychologist, Department of Psychology, Sunnyview Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
1982-1988 Director, Brain Injury Program, Sunnyview Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
1987-1988 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College
1988-1992 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
1988-1992 Director, Neuropsychological Services, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center
1991-1992 Director, Psychology Training, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
1992-2005 Director, Neuropsychological Services, Department of Psychology, Sunnyview Hospital and Rehabilitation Center
2008-2009 Chief Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
Current Positions and Employment
1992- Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College
1994- Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany
2002- Staff Neuropsychologist, Department of Neurology, Albany Medical Center Hospital
2005- Manager, Department of Psychology, Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
1992 Member, American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology
1982 Member, National Academy of Neuropsychology
1984 - 2019 Occasional Editorial Reviewers: Journal of Neurology, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Behavior Therapy, American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Health & Research World, Journal of Personality, Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, and The Clinical Neuropsychologist
B. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Journal Articles
Tennen, H. & Gillen, R.W. (1979). The effect of debriefing on learned helplessness: An attributional analysis. Journal of Personality, 47, 629-642.
Tennen, H., Drum, P., Gillen, R. W., & Stanton, A. (1982) Learned helplessness and the detection of contingency: A direct test. Journal of Personality, 50, 426-442.
Tennen, H., Gillen,R.W., & Drum, P. (1982) The debilitating effect of noncontingent escape: A test of the learned helplessness model. Journal of Personality, 50, 409-425.
Gillen, R.W., Golden, C.J., & Eyde, D.R. (1982). Use of the Luria-Nebraska Battery with elderly populations. Clinical Gerontologist, 1, 3-21.
MacInnes, W., Gillen, R.W., Golden, C.J., & Graber, B. (1983). Aging and Performance on the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery. International Journal of Neuroscience,19,179-190.
Gillen, R. W., Ginn, C., Strider, M., Kreuch, T., & Golden, C.J. (1983). The Luria-Nebraska Battery and the Peabody Individual Achievement Test: A correlational analysis. International Journal of Neuroscience, 19, 256-282.
MacInnes, W., Golden, C. J., Gillen, R.W., Sawicki, R., Quaife, M., Uhl, H., & Greenhouse, A. (1984) Aging, regional cerebral blood flow, and neuropsychological functioning. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 32, 712-718.
Hickling, E., Sison, G., Vanderploeg, R., & Gillen, R. W. (1985). Cognitive rehabilitation: A selected bibliography. Psychological Documents, 15, 10.
Gillen, R.W., Kranzler, H.R., Kadden, R. M., & Weidenman, M. (1991). Utility of a brief cognitive screening instrument in substance abuse patients: Initial investigation. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 8, 247-251.
Gillen, R. W., & Hesselbrock, V. (1992). Cognitive functioning, ASP, and family history of alcoholism in young men at risk for alcoholism. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 16, 206-214.
Hesselbrock, V., Bauer,L. O'Connor, S., & Gillen, R.W. (1993). Reduced P300 amplitude in relation to family history of alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder among young men at risk for alcoholism. Alcohol & Alcoholism, 2, 95-100.
Gillen, R.W., Tennen, H., Affleck, G., & Steinpreis, R. (1998). Distress, depressive symptoms and depressive disorder among caretakers of brain injured patients. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 13, 31-43.
Hickling, E.J., Gillen R.W., Blanchard, E.B. Buckley, T. & Taylor, A. (1998) Traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder: a preliminary investigation of neuropsychological test results in PTSD secondary to motor vehicle accidents. Brain Injury, 12, 265-274.
Gillen, R.W., Kranzler, H.R., Bauer, L.O., Burleson, J.A., Samarel, D., & Morrison, D.J. (1998) Neuropsychologic findings in cocaine-dependent outpatients. Progress in Neuro-Pharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, 22, 1061-1076.
Gillen, R.W., Eberhardt, B.S., Tennen, H., Affleck, G., & Groszman Y. (1999) Screening for depression in stroke: relationship to rehabilitation efficiency. Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases, 8, 300-306.
Gillen, R.W. Tennen, H., Eberhardt-Mckee, T., Gernert-Dott, P., & Affleck G. (2001) Depressive symptoms and history of depression predict rehabilitation efficiency in stroke patients. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 82, 1645-1649.
Gillen, R.W. Tennen, H., Eberhardt-Mckee, T. (2005) Unilateral spatial neglect: Relationship with rehabilitation outcomes in right hemisphere stroke patients. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 86, 943-948.
Gillen, R.W. Tennen, H., Eberhardt-Mckee, T. (2007) The impact of the inpatient rehabilitation facility prospective payment system on stroke program outcomes. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 86, 356-363.
Gillen, R. W. (2010) Invited Book Review: The neuropsychology of everyday functioning (T. Marcotte and I. Grant, Eds). Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 25, 685-686.
Hancu, I., Gillen, R. Cowan, J. Zimmerman E. (2011), Improved myo-Inositol detection through Carr-Purcell PRESS: A tool for more sensitive mild cognitive impairment diagnosis. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 65, 1515-1521.
Anderson-Hanley, C., Barcelos, N., Zimmerman,W., Gillen, R.W. Dunnham, M., Cohen, B.D. Yerokhin, V. Miller, K., Hayes, D. Arciero, P. Maloney, M. Kramer, A. (2018) The aerobic and cognitive exercise study (ACES) for community-dwelling older adults with or at-risk for mild cognitive impairment (MCI): Neuropsychological, neurobiological and neuroimaging outcomes of a randomized clinical trial. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 10, 1-25.
Book Chapters
Gillen, R.W. & Heimberg, R.G. (1980) Social skills training for the job interview: Review and prospectus. In M. Hersen, R. Eisler, & P. Miller (Eds.), Progress in Behavior Modification (Vol .10). New York: Academic Press. 183-206.
Hesselbrock, V., Bauer, L.O., Hesselbrock, M., & Gillen, R.W. (1991). Neuropsychological factors in individuals at high risk for alcoholism. In M. Galanter (Ed), Recent Developments in Alcohol, (Vol 9), New York: Plenum Press.
Abstract or Symposium Presentations in Conferences
Gillen, R.W. & Tennen, H. (August, 1978). The effect of debriefing on learned helplessness: An attributional analysis. Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.
Drum, P., Tennen, H., & Gillen, R.W. (September, 1979). Learned helplessness and contingency detection. Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, New York, N.Y.
Gillen, R.W., MacInnes,W., Strider,M., Uhl, H., & Golden, C.J. (August, 1982). Performance of senile dementia patients on the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery. Paper presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C.
Gillen, R.W., MacInnes, W., McCreary, J., & Ginn,C. (October, 1984). Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery performance of a closed head population. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Diego,CA.
Gillen, R.W., Shutts-Bender, W., & Rosen, B. (October, 1986). Utility of family conferences: Family /staff perceptions. Paper presented at the meeting of American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation/American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Baltimore, Md. Abstract in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1986, 67 621.
Hesselbrock, V. & Gillen,R.W. (June, 1990) Cognitive functioning; ASP and family history in young men at risk for Alcoholism. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Society for Biological Research on Alcoholism/ Research Society on Alcoholism, Toronto,Canada. Abstract in Alcohol: Clinical & Experimental Research,1990, 14, 297.
Gillen, R.W., Kranzler,H.R., Kadden, R. M., & Weidenman, M. ( June, 1990). Utility of the Cognitive Status Exam for detection of neuropsychological impairment in substance abuse patients. Paper presented at the meeting of the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence, Richmond, VA. Abstract in NIDA Research Monograph: Problems of Drug Dependence, 1990.
Hesselbrock, V., Bauer, L., Gillen, R.W., O'Connor, S. (June, 1992) P3 Amplitude, family history of alcohol, ASP, and risk for alcoholism. Paper presented at the International Society of Biological Research on Alcoholism. Bristol, England.
Gillen, R.W., Tennen, H.A., & Steinpreis, R. (October, 1993) Depression in family members of traumatically brain injured adults. Presented at the meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Phoenix, Arizona. Abstract in Archives of Neuropsychology, 1994, 9, 342.
Engel, P.A., Scwartz, M., & Gillen, R.W. (February, 1997) Neurosyphilis revisited: two cases with clinical, SPECT, & serial neuropsychological evaluations. Presented at the meeting of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, Orlando, Fla. Abstract in Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 1997.
Gillen, R. W. Screening for depression in stroke: Relationship to rehabilitation efficiency as measured by FIM. (October 1997). Presented at the North American Stoke Meeting, Montreal, Quebec. Abstract in Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 1997, 6, 459.
Gillen, R.W. Tennen, H., Gernert-Dott, P. Eberhardt, T., & Affleck, G. Screening for depression in stroke: Relationship to rehabilitation efficiency. (November 1999). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Antonio, Texas. Abstract in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1999, 8, 801.
Gernert-Dott, P., Gillen, R.W., Tennen, H., Eberhardt, T., & Affleck, G. Impact of cognitive impairment on functional outcomes and rehabilitation costs following stroke. (November 1999). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Antonio, Texas. Abstract in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1999, 14, 800.
Gillen, R.W. & Gernert-Dott Relationship of Independent Living Scales to a functional Outcome measure and neuropsychological tests. (November, 2000) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Orlando, Florida. Abstract in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2000, 15, 663.
Gernert-Dott, P. & Gillen, R.W. WAIS-III clinical sensitivity and profile performance for patients with traumatic brain injury in an acute rehabilitation setting. (November, 2000) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Orlando, Florida. Abstract in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2000, 15, 829.
Zimmerman E.A., Adak S., Angshuman S., Tandon R., Gillen R., Barba A., Gorman W. & Schenck J.F. (July 2004) Visualization of Imaging and Clinical Features for Detection of Alzheimer's Disease. 9th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Philadelphia.
Gillen R.W., Tennen H., McKee T. Impact of Medicare prospective payment system on right hemisphere stroke patients with unilateral spatial neglect. (October, 2005) Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Tampa, Florida. Abstract in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2005, 20, 940.
Penc S. F., Gillen R. W., Zimmerman E.A. (October, 2007) Unusual presentation of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease: Visual field cut and long duration. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association, Chicago.
Gillen R. W., Ritaccio, A.L., Lynch, T. (December, 2009) The localizing value of right side recall of the Rey Complex Figure in temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
Gillen R. W., Ritaccio, A.L., Lynch, T. (December, 2010) Amytal versus Brevital:Differences in Wada Test Performance in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, San Antonio, Texas
Vanderslice-Barr, J. Gillen R. W., Zimmerman E. (October 2010) Do Frontal systems Behavior Scale Scores (FrsBe) scores differentiate between Frontotemporal and Alzheimer’s type dementias? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Vancouver, British Columbia. Abstract in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 25, 484-485.
C. RESEARCH SUPPORT
Ongoing Research Support
None
Thursday, October 22, 2020
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST