Mary H. Kosmidis received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from American University, Washington, DC (1992) and worked as a staff fellow at the NIMH conducting research in psychophysiology and neuropsychology, while also working in private practice. Since 1999, she has been on the faculty of the School of Psychology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, teaching and doing research in clinical neuropsychology and supervising students’ clinical and research training. Additional positions include that of Visiting Scientist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2024-25) and Visiting Scholar at University of Cyprus (2016). She currently represents Greece (via the Association of Greek Psychologists) as a member of the Standing Committee on Clinical Neuropsychology of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (SCCN-EFPA). Over the course of her career, she has organized national and international conferences and the INS-sponsored Vivian Smith Summer Institute for Neuropsychology, was president of the Hellenic Neuropsychological Society and board member of the Hellenic Psychological Society of Northern Greece (HPSNG), vice-dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at AUTh, and has served on the editorial board of several scientific journals. She has published four books in Greek, 22 book chapters and over 200 scientific journal articles and has edited the translation of 9 scientific books into Greek. Her research has been awarded several grants (NIH, European Commission, Hellenic Ministry of Education, AUTh) and conference prizes.
My recent research has focused on early signs and protective and predisposing factors for the development of dementia (e.g., Mediterranean diet, sleep, normal cognitive trajectories related to aging, early exposure to adverse life factors such as war, pesticide use, low SES); the neurocognitive dimensions of illiteracy and implications for a) accurate clinical neuropsychological assessment and b) the effects of literacy on cognitive functioning; cultural factors relevant to neuropsychological assessment, e.g., determining the cultural appropriateness of neuropsychological tests and adapting existing, or developing new, tests and normative data for the Greek population, among others.
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