Position
Academic Background
Sample Courses
Teaching Philosophy
Research & Interests
Notable Academic Appointments & Awards
Publication Highlights
Selected Scholarly Presentations

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Position            

• Professor of Psychology

Academic Background      

• The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Adult and Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychology
• University of Missouri - Columbia - Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center - Clinical Psychology Internship, 1981-1982
• Providence College - B.A. in Psychology, 1978

Sample Courses Taught at Providence College   

• Human Neuropsychology
• Research in Neuropsychology
• Psychology and Law
• Introduction to Psychology
• Psychological Testing and Assessment
• Psychology of Aging
  

Teaching Philosophy       

I tell my students that although the stars and the oceans are worthy of study, for my money, the most complicated and intriguing entity in the universe sits right between our ears. I love this field both as a clinician and a researcher. It is very exciting for me to describe to my students a clinical example of a neurologic syndrome that I may have seen in the hospital yesterday and that we are discussing in class today. I really love what I teach so I feel very comfortable with my enthusiasm and relatively high energy level in the classroom. I want my students to understand the historical and theoretical underpinnings of psychological concepts but I also want them to appreciate how psychologists apply their knowledge outside of a classroom. 

Research & Interests               

My scholarly passion is my specialty of neuropsychology and to a lesser extent psychology and law. Several years ago I conducted a number of studies examining how neuropsychologists can be more accurate in detecting malingering in brain injury legal cases. I know that the research that I was involved with improved the methods that clinicians used to address this issue. 

I still have a significant interest in clinical issues and need to continue to see patients in order to remain intellectually engaged in applied psychology. I find that my clinical work complements my teaching and research. Currently, I am the Director of Neuropsychology at the Southern New England Rehabilitation Center at St. Joseph Hospital for Specialty Care in Providence. In that position, I conduct neuropsychological evaluations of rehabilitation patients (i.e., those persons with strokes, head injuries, etc.) to determine if or in what way they have sustained brain damage that may affect their cognitive or behavioral functioning.

Notable Academic Appointments and Awards

• Named the first neuropsychologist in Rhode Island to be board certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology and the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1991.
• Member, editorial board, Psychology Injury and Law, and ad-hoc reviewer for several professional journals.
• Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Division of Biology and Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
• Invited participant: 2008 American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Consensus Conference on the Neuropsychological Assessment of Effort, Response Bias, and Malingering

Publication Highlights

• Guilmette, T.J., Temple, R.O., & Kennedy, M.L. (2008). The relationships among rehabilitation staff members' reports of cognitive dysfunction and neuropsychological assessment in an acute rehabilitation population.  Rehabilitation Psychology, 53, 238-242.
• Guilmette, T.J., Hagan, L., & Giuliano, A.J. (2008). Assigning qualitative descriptors to test scores in neuropsychology: Forensic implications. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 22, 122-139.
• Guilmette, T.J., Malia, L.A., & McQuiggan, M.D.  (2007).  Concussion understanding and management among New England high school football coaches.  Brain Injury, 21, 1039-1047.
• Guilmette, T.J., Kennedy, M.L., Weiler, M.D., & Temple, R.O. (2006). Investigation of biases in the general public in evaluating mild head injury using neuropsychological and CT scan results: Forensic implications. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 20, 305-314.
• Guilmette, T.J., Carroll, B., Ferreira, J., Magner, E., Mihuta, M., & Kennedy, M.L. (2004). "Recall of 9/11/01 as an indicator of cognitive functioning in the elderly."Journal of Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 11, 450-458.
• Bernard, P.G., Brutman, B., Guilmette, T.J., McNamara, M.E., Petrocelli, R.W., & Smothers, J.M. (2006). Traumatic brain injury: Evaluation and litigation - 2006 edition. Newark, NJ: LexisNexis.
• Guilmette, T.J. (2005). Prediction of vocational functioning from neuropsychological test data.  In I.Z. Schultz & R.J. Gatchel (Eds.), Handbook of complex disability claims: Early risk identification, intervention, and prevention (pp. 303-314). New York: Springer Science and Business Media.
• Guilmette, T.J. (1997).  PocketGuide to brain injury, cognitive, and neurobehavioral rehabilitation.  San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group, Inc.

Selected Scholarly Presentations and Activities

• Guilmette, T.J. (2006, June). The quandary of assigning qualitative descriptors to neuropsychological test scores: Results of a survey of AACN members. Invited presentation made at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Philadelphia, PA.
• Guilmette, T.J. (2005, December). Intervention strategies for cognitive and neurobehavioral syndromes. Invited presentation made at the Comprehensive Approach to Stroke Rehab conference sponsored by St. Francis Health Center, Topeka, KS.
• Guilmette, T.J., & Temple, R.O. (2004, November). The influence of victim characteristics on potential jurors’ perception of mild head injury.  Poster presentation made at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Seattle, WA.
• Guilmette, T.J. (2004, May).  Forensic Neuropsychology.  Invited presentation to the annual meeting of the Clinical Laboratory Science Society of Central New England, in Providence, RI.
• Guilmette, T.J. (2003, May). Sleep problems and traumatic brain injury.  Invited presentation to the MENTOR Head Injury Center, Wakefield, MA.

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