Karin J. M. McCoy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Veteran's Administration, San Antonio TX

Phone: TBA
Email:KMcCoy@ufl.edu

• Education
• Research Interests
• Student Profile
  

Education

• Clinical internship, Veteran's Administration, Memphis TN, 2004-2005
  
• University of Florida, Clinical and Health Psychology
  Ph.D., 2004 , Concentration in Clinical Neuropsychology
  Certificate of Gerontology, 2004
• M.S. in Clinical Psychology, University of Florida, 1999
• B.A. with distinction in all subjects, Cornell University, 1989

Research Interests

• Memory and aging
• Assessment and diagnosis of cognitive impairment in older adults
• Assessment of competency in older adults
• Competency and decision-making, right to refuse treatment

Current research includes collaboration with Michael Marsiske, Ph.D. on intraindividual variability in cognitive functioning in cognitively intact and mildly demented older adults.

Student Profile

Karin McCoy entered the Ph.D. program in Clinical and Health Psychology in the Fall of 1997. She completed her Master of Science degree in May 1999, with a thesis on the short term and long term effects of left frontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on depressed mood and cognition, and has completed her Ph.D., with a focus on geriatric neuropsychology and cognitive aging (intraindividual variability in the cognitive performance of elders with and without mild cognitive impairment). Karin finished her degree in 2004, following a clinical internship.