Joshua Kirton

Multidisciplinary Behavioral Health

Evans Army Community Hospital (Ft. Carson Colorado) 

Mountain Post Behavioral Health Clinic

Supervisors: MAJ Amanda Haight PhD; CMDR Jessica Schultz PhD; LTC Jean Hare LSCW; MAJ Daniel Morgan D.O.

Responsibilities: Complete outpatient neuropsychological evaluations with active duty service members, veterans, and dependents. Pertinent administrative duties such as reviewing consults, and consulting with the multidisciplinary team in clinic. Supervision of psych techs.  

Neuropsychology Outpatient Clinic Administrative Rotation

STVHCS

Supervisors: Janice Marceaux ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Complete administrative duties necessary to run the outpatient consult clinic including triaging consults, organizing and running meetings, and other various administrative tasks.  

Neurology Consult Liaison

STVHCS

Supervisors: Jason Soble. ABPP/CN, & Jonathan Highsmith Ph.D. 

Responsibilities: One month rounding with the Neurology inpatient consultation clinic providing neuropsychological consultation. 

Neuropsychology Outpatient Clinic

San Antonio Military Medical Center

Supervisors: Robert Seegmiller Ph.D. ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Conducting neuropsychological evaluations for individuals with a wide variety of cognitive, neurological, psychological, and other medical illness including TBI, dementia, and stroke, who are active duty military service members or dependents. 

Epilepsy Clinic

University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center/ UT Health

Supervisor: David Gonzalez Ph.D. ABPP/CN

Responsibilities: Conducting neuropsychological evaluations for individuals with epilepsy including pre and post-surgical evaluations and assist in conducting Wada testing.  

Neuropsychology Inpatient Consultation Clinic

STVHCS

Supervisor: Karin McCoy Ph.D. ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Conducted inpatient neuropsychological evaluation across STVHCS for inpatients with neurological and cognitive problems including TBI, dementia, and stroke as needed.

Neuropsychology Outpatient Clinic

STVHCS

Supervisors: Karin McCoy Ph.D. ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Conducted neuropsychological assessments for individuals with a wide variety of cognitive, neurological, psychological, and other medical illness. Provided cognitive rehabilitation via group intervention. Provided tiered supervision to practicum students.

Neuropsychology Outpatient Clinic

STVHCS

Supervisor: Janice Marceaux Ph.D. ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Conducted neuropsychological assessments for individuals with a wide variety of cognitive, neurological, psychological, and other medical illness including TBI, dementia, and stroke. Provided cognitive rehabilitation via group intervention. Provided tiered supervision to interns.

Neurology Neuroseizure Clinic

STVHCS

Supervisors: Cassandra Sanchez Pharm.D., & Janice Marceaux Ph.D. ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Provide neuropsychological consultation and brief testing/screening in an outpatient seizure clinic to providers and patients presenting for standard follow up seizure care. Administrative project to better cognitive and mental health screening.

Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center

STVHCS

Supervisor: Justin O‘Rourke Ph.D. ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Acute inpatient service for TBI and stroke. Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews with patients, neuropsychological testing, reviewed medical records, provided feedback to patients, complete capacity evaluations, coma recovery scales, and preparation of integrated reports. 

Polytrauma Translational Rehabilitation Program

STVHCS

Supervisor: Edan Critchfield Psy.D. ABPP/CN 

Responsibilities: Assessment and rehabilitation for individuals transitioning from acute inpatient care to home with TBI and Stroke. Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews with patients, neuropsychological testing, provided feedback to patients, complete capacity evaluations, and preparation of integrated reports. Provided cognitive rehabilitation via individual and group therapy in clinic and community settings. 

Internship at South West Consortium

Neuropsychology Clinic

Raymond G. Murphy Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

Supervisors: Joseph Sadek Ph.D. ABPP/CN, Rex Swanda Ph.D. ABPP/CN

Responsibilities: Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews with patients, conducted neuropsychological testing, reviewed medical records, provided feedback to patients, complete capacity evaluations, and preparation of integrated reports. Assessments were for individuals with a wide variety of cognitive, neurological, psychological, and other medical illness including TBI, dementia, and stroke.

Outpatient Mental Health Clinic

Raymond G. Murphy Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

Supervisor: Dustin Wielt, Ph.D., Rebecca Osterhout, Ph.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted couples therapy and co-facilitated a DBT emotion regulation group. 

Home Based Primary Care Clinic

Raymond G. Murphy Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

Supervisor: Erika Johnson-Jimenez Ph.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted a variety of psychological assessment including capacity evaluations and cognitive testing, and psychological treatment services in the homes of Veterans unable to travel to the hospital for services.

Spinal Cord Injury Clinic

Raymond G. Murphy Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

Supervisor: Jessica Madrigal-Bauguss Ph.D. & Shelley Leiphart Psy.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted a variety of psychological assessments for veterans with spinal cord injury and TBI including yearly evaluation, neuropsychological testing, and capacity evaluations. 

Psychotherapy at Southwest Consortium

Raymond G. Murphy Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

Supervisors: Devorah Simon Ph.D.; Shelley Leiphart Psy.D.; Erika Johnson-Jimenez Ph.D.

Graduate School- University of Florida

Center for Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration Assistantship

UF Shands Hospital

Supervisor: Dawn Bowers Ph.D. ABPP/CN

Responsibilities: Neuropsychological assessments for individuals primarily with movement disorders.

Geriatric Neuropsychology Clinic Assistantship

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisor: Vonetta Dotson Ph.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted neuropsychological assessment for moderate to severe dementia.

Specialty Practicum in Traumatic Brain Injury

Veteran’s Affairs Hospital, Gainesville, FL

Supervisors: Neha Dixit, Ph.D. and Jason Demery Ph.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted neuropsychological assessments for differential diagnosis between TBI, PTSD, and dementia.

Specialty Practicum in Epilepsy

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisor: Russell Bauer Ph.D. ABPP/CN

Responsibilities: Conducted Wada testing and presurgical neuropsychological evaluations. Attend Epilepsy consensus conference weekly. Assessments were primarily presurgical evaluations for patients preparing for medial temporal lobectomies. 

Advanced Practicum in Geriatric Neuropsychology

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisor: Russell Bauer Ph.D. ABPP/CN

Responsibilities: Conducted neuropsychological assessments for primarily dementias but also for TBI and stroke patients.

Practicum in Advanced General Mental Health

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisors: Ronald Rozensky, Ph.D. ABPP and William Perlstein Ph.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews for therapy intake, reviewed medical records, used mood and anxiety measures, provided feedback to patients, and preparation of intake reports. Patient population consisted of a broad range of general mental health concerns.

04/2012 - 

06/2012

Child Psychology Practicum

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisor: Brenda Wiens Ph.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews with patients and parents, conducted psychological testing, reviewed medical records, provided feedback to patients and parents, and prepared integrated reports. Assessments were primarily of attention and learning disorders.

Practicum in Adult Neuropsychology

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisor: Duane Dede, Ph.D. 

Responsibilities: Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews, neuropsychological testing, reviewed medical records, provided feedback, and preparation of integrated reports. Assessments were of a broad range of adult neuropsychological concerns including adult attention disorders, university students with learning disorders seeking accommodations, TBI, and dementias.

Practicum in Health Psychology 

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisors: Glen Ashkanazi, Ph.D. and Lori Waxenberg, Ph.D. ABPP

Responsibilities: Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews for therapy intake and transplant candidacy assessments for lung, kidney, and bone marrow transplants

Practicum in Clinical Psychology _

Fear and Anxiety Disorders Clinic UF

Supervisor: Marie-Claude LaPlante, Ph.D.

Responsibilities: Conducted clinical diagnostic interviews for therapy intake, reviewed medical records, used mood, anxiety measures, and personality measures, provided feedback to patients, and preparation of intake reports. Patient population consisted of primarily anxiety disorders.

Supervised Psychological treatment/Psychotherapy

Psychology Clinic UF Shands Hospital

Supervisors: Marie-Claude LaPlante, Ph.D., Glen Ashkanazi, Ph.D., Lori Waxenberg, Ph.D. ABPP, Brenda Wiens Ph.D., Ronald Rozensky, Ph.D. ABPP, William Perlstein Ph.D., Russell Bauer Ph.D. ABPP/CN, Dawn Bowers Ph.D. ABPP/CN, Patricia Durning Ph.D., David Fedele Ph.D.