Members of our CST Scientific Advisory Board are recognized experts in their specialty areas, which include differential diagnosis of depression, dementia, and other psychiatric disorders, as well as degenerative neurologic diseases.

Peter Lichtenberg, Ph.D., ABPP
Dr. Lichtenberg is board-certified in rehabilitation psychology. He is Director of the Institute of Gerontology and Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Neuroscience & Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Wayne State University. He is the author of five books and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. His research areas include mental health in long-term care, urban minority geriatric populations, and the early detection and management of Alzheimer's Disease. Funding for his research has come from organizations such as the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer's Association.

L. Stephen Miller, Ph.D.
Dr. Miller is an associate professor of clinical psychology in the University of Georgia's Psychology Department. He is also Director of UGA's Memory Assessment Clinic, co-director of the UGA Human Neuroimaging Facility, and a faculty member of the UGA Gerontology Center. Dr. Miller's research interests center on the relationship between pathological changes of the brain and their influence on behavior. Specialty areas include dementia and schizophrenia. Dr. Miller has published more than 30 research articles and book chapters and has presented his work at numerous scientific conferences. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Aging, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Center for Applied Cognitive Research on Aging, and the Agency for Health Care Policy Research, among others.

John A. Toner, Ed.D., M.Phil.
Dr. Toner is an associate clinical professor of medical psychology in psychiatry at the Stroud Center of the Columbia University Faculty of Medicine and senior research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His current research, which is supported by the Calderone Prize for Faculty Research at Columbia, focuses on chronically mentally ill patients and geriatric depression in dementia. The author of two recent books on long-term care of the frail elderly, Dr. Toner has published more than 50 scientific articles in the fields of geriatrics and gerontology and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of several journals, including the Journal of Interprofessional Care, an international journal based in London.

Frank M. Webbe, Ph.D.
Dr. Webbe is a professor in the School of Psychology at the Florida Institute of Technology. His interests include sport and exercise psychology, neuropsychology, physiological psychology, and learning and memory. His research has appeared in publications such as the Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Applied Neuropsychology, and the Journal of Neurosurgery. Dr. Webbe is a director of the East Central Florida Memory Disorder Clinic and the Center for Advanced Therapy and Biomedical Research in Melbourne, Florida.

David M. Erlanger, Ph.D.
Dr. Erlanger received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University and completed training in clinical neuropsychology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is on the faculties of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Hospital and Columbia University/Teachers College and serves as a consultant in research methods and assessment to the New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.

Daniel J. Feldman, Ph.D.
Dr. Feldman completed training in neuropsychology at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Clinically, he has worked primarily doing neuropsychological assessment of adults in outpatient and medical-legal settings. He has published and continues to study in the areas of neuropsychology, personality research, psychometrics, and advanced statistical techniques for the behavioral sciences. At present, he leads pharmaceutical market research in oncology.

Tanya Kaushik, Psy.D.
Dr. Kaushik completed training in clinical neuropsychology in an AAPCN-accredited program with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Bergen Neuropsychology Group, New Jersey. Her training, practice, and research have primarily focused on neuropsychological assessment of patients with mild traumatic brain injury, dementia, cancer, and other medical disorders, as well as objective and projective personality assessment with a broad range of non-medical patients.