Mary Pepping, PhD, ABBP-CN

Professor
Neuropsychologist
Clinical Director, Neuro-Rehabilitation Program

Patient Care
Dr. Pepping's clinical interests include outpatient neuropsychological evaluation for adults and adolescents (16 and above) with various acquired neurologic problems; the clinical-directorship of outpatient brain injury rehabilitation programs with a particular interest in running therapy groups for people with brain injury; program development; and interdisciplinary staff development and training.

"I particularly enjoy helping my patients understand their areas of ability and difficulty and how to improve or maintain function in their thinking and interpersonal skills."

Research
Her research interests include long-term psychosocial follow-up of individuals with brain injuries ranging from mild to severe, who have the capacity for return to some form of employment; the review of various kinds of post-acute brain injury rehabilitation programs as they compare in achieving positive patient outcomes; the cost effectiveness of psychotherapy after brain injury; the combined use of SPECT, clinical evaluations, and neuropsychological evaluation in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease; multiple sclerosis, malignant brain tumors, and their implications for neuropsychological function; and appropriate rehabilitation interventions for management of neuropsychological symptoms.

Teaching
Dr. Pepping is involved in teaching psychology and physiatry residents and medical students on topics related to neuropsychological assessment, outpatient brain injury rehabilitation with a return-to-work emphasis, differential diagnosis of post concussion syndrome patients, neuropsychological test result patterns of performance in the dementias, and other neurologic disorders.

Training
Dr. Pepping earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Loyola Marymount University, her Master's degree in Psychology at California State University-Los Angeles, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Washington State University. She completed both an internship in Clinical Psychology and her postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Selected Publications:

Pepping, Mary and Prigatano, George P. Psychotherapy after brain injury: Costs and Benefits. in CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COST OUTCOME RESEARCH, Taylor and Francis: Psychology Press, 2002, pp. 313-328.

Pepping, Mary. The value of group psychotherapy after brain injury. Article in Brain Injury Source Magazine. Heilbronner, Robert L. (Ed.), National Brain Injury Association, Inc., Publishers, January 1998.

Pepping, Mary. Transference and countertransference issues in brain injury rehabilitation: Implications for staff training. Chapter in Staff Training and Clinical Intervention in Brain Injury Rehabilitation. Durgin, Chuck, Schmidt, Nancy, and Fryer, L. Jeanne (Eds.), Aspen Publishers Inc., 1993.

Pepping, Mary and Roueche, James R. Psychosocial consequences of severe brain injury. Chapter in The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life, Vol. II - Issues in Development and Rehabilitation. Tupper, David and Cicerone, Keith, (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

Prigatano, George P., Pepping, Mary and Klonoff, Pamela. Cognitive, personality and psychosocial factors in the neuropsychological assessment of brain-injured patients. Chapter in Clinical Neuropsychology of Intervention. Uzzell, Barbara and Gross, Yigal (Eds.), Martinus Nijhoff Publishing Company, 1986.