Joseph Bleiberg, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, CLCP

Dr. Bleiberg is board-certified in clinical neuropsychology, is a certified life care planner, and a forensic expert witness. He received his doctorate in psychology from Boston University in 1977 and subsequently became the Director of Psychology at Braintree Hospital in Braintree, Massachusetts. He was recruited in 1979 to be the Director of Psychology at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. In 1985, Dr. Bleiberg was asked to come to Washington, D.C. to help start the National Rehabilitation Hospital where he has worked for the past 23 years as Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Director of Psychology, Co-Director of the Brain Injury Program, and the President of Integrated Brain Injury Systems, Inc. (an NRH subsidiary providing transitional living for survivors of traumatic brain injury). He currently is a Senior Fellow at NRH. 

In addition to his long and well-respected clinical career, Dr. Bleiberg has an equally impressive academic career. He was an assistant professor in the departments of psychiatry and rehabilitation medicine at the Northwestern University School of Medicine while in Chicago and now is a clinical associate professor (neurology) at the Georgetown University School of Medicaine. He has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals  on the diagnosis and rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury and other brain disorders, has been senior author of many funded grants, and currently is developing a model program, "Combat to College," for enhancing academic success of returning veterans. He also has been co-author of several widely used computerized neuropsychological test batteries, including the one currently used by local school athletic departments, national football leagues, and the Department of Defense for cognitive baselining and to track concussions.

Please note that Dr. Joseph Bleiberg is not taking private patients at this time.