Robert S. Kern, PhD

Robert S. Kern, Ph.D. is a Research Psychologist at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and the Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 22 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC). He serves as Co-Director of the MIRECC psychology postdoctoral fellowship program, Associate Director for the Research Enhancement Award Program (REAP) on Enhancing Community Integration among Homeless Veterans, and clinical assessment supervisor for the UCLA Psychology Clinic.  Dr. Kern attained his doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and then completed two 2-year post-doctoral fellowships at UCLA in neuropsychology and schizophrenia research. Currently, Dr. Kern is actively involved in psychopathology research with emphases in neurocognition, cognitive rehabilitation, and social cognition in persons with schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and has received extramural funding from NIMH, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Stanley Medical Research Institute. He has authored or co-authored several seminal review papers and more than 90 research articles and book chapters. Dr. Kern is consulting editor for the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, and is a licensed psychologist in the state of California.