MATT AS A SCHOLAR
1998-2005, Doctor of Philosophy, Drexel University, Clinical Psychology
1996-1998, Master of Science, Bucknell University, Biology
1992-1996, Bachelor of Science, Bucknell University, Major: Biology &Psychology

Matt is a 1992 graduate of Montclair High School. He attended Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Biology and Psychology in 1996. As a senior, Matt was awarded the Thelma Johnson Showalter Prize for his accomplishments in the field of public and community affairs. After graduation, he remained at Bucknell and completed a Masters of Science degree in Biology (1998) with a concentration in Neuroscience.

In 1998, Matt moved to Philadelphia, PA to begin his doctoral studies in Clinical Neuropsychology at Drexel University. During his first four years of the program, Matt was involved in experimental neuropsychology research with Dr. Mike Williams at Drexel and in the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the National Institutes of Mental Health in Bethesda, MD. He obtained clinical neuropsychology experiences at the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and in a pediatric neuropsychology private practice in Bryn Mawr, PA. Matt also obtained psychotherapy training working as a staff therapist at the Drexel University- Hahnemann Campus Student Counseling Center. He then completed a one-year clinical internship in Clincal Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology at The Mount Sinai Medical in New York, NY. At Mount Sinai, he worked in the traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury units. In 2005, Matt successfully defended his dissertation, "Activation of the Hippocampus During Emotional Learning" and graduated from Drexel.

Matt is currently living with his wife, Dara, in New York, NY. Dara is also a graduate of Drexel Unviersity's doctoral program in Clinical Psychology. Her specialty is the treatment and research of eating disoders. She is currently a faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical College/ New York Presbyterian Hospital in White Plains. Click to read more about her work.

Publications:
Journal of Andrology, Jan/Feb Supplement, 1998
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Vol. 16,
Number 8, November 2001.

Awards:
Graduate Scholarship in Biology Department
Thelma Johnson Showalter Prize for Excellence in Community Affairs;
John P. Dunlop Prize, Outstanding Greek Leader in Campus and Community Involvement
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health/ Division of Neuropsychology, Internship, 2000-2001 (summers)