Thomas Schenkenberg, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Dr. Thomas Schenkenberg has been member of the Department of Neurology since 1973.
Dr. Schenkenberg completed a B.A. degree at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Missouri and an M.A. and a Ph.D. at the University of Utah in Clinical Psychology. He completed post-doctoral training in neuropsychology at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center, conducting normative and clinical studies using visual, auditory and somatosensory evoked potential techniques. He is double boarded in Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology (American Board of Professional Psychology).
Dr. Schenkenberg was based at the Salt Lake City VA Medical Center for many years and was the Chief of Psychology from 1983 to 1999 when he moved to the University of Utah on a full-time basis. In addition to his primary position in the Department of Neurology he holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Educational Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Utah and in the Department of Psychology at Utah State University. He held a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychology at Brigham Young University from 1981 to 2000. He has taught numerous graduate level and undergraduate courses in these various departments.
Dr. Schenkenberg served on the State of Utah Psychologists Licensing Board for 10 years, chairing the board for 2 years. He is the recipient of the Utah Psychological Association’s Distinguished Service Award. He chaired the Hospital Ethics Committee at the VA Medical Center from 1986 to 1999 and has served on the University of Utah Hospital Ethics Committee from 2000 to the present.
At the University of Utah Dr. Schenkenberg conducts neuropsychological evaluations with adult patients on referral from neurologists, neurosurgeons, geriatricians, psychiatrists and internists. He has conducted screening evaluations of patients who are candidates for deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson’s disease and for patients who are candidates for the surgical treatment of epilepsy. He provides neuropsychological testing support for a number of studies involving such conditions as stroke and myotonic dystrophy.
Dr. Schenkenberg has published extensively on a variety of topics including neuropsychology, psychological assessment, electrophysiology, dementia and medical ethics.
