Elaine de Guise
Professor
Elaine De Guise obtained a psychology degree from Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada and a Ph.D. degree in clinical neuropsychology from the University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada in 1994 and 1999, respectively. Between 1998 and 2013, she was occupying a position as a Clinical Neuropsychologist for the traumatic brain injury program at the McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada. Since 2009, she has been an Associate Professor for the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University and since 2013, she has been occupying a position as a Professor for the Department of Psychology at Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada. In 2013, she established a Psy.D. program in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Montreal as well as a University Neuropsychology Clinic.
She is a regular researcher in the Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Brain Repair and Integration Neuroscience (BRaIN) programBrain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) Brain Repair and Integrative Neuroscience (BRaIN) at the Research-Institute of the MUHC and at the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation du Montréal métropolitain (CRIR) and she is funded by the CIHR, FRQS, REPAR and CRIR. She is mainly interested in traumatic brain injury research. More specifically, her main domain of interest is to develop predictive models of outcome in a traumatic brain injured population. She is specialized in neuropsychological assessment of mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injured patients in an acute care setting. She works with an interdisciplinary team who has developed specialized interventions to increase the level of alertness, cognition and level of functioning after a traumatic brain injury.
Regarding clinical practice, she supervises the clinical practice of doctoral students in her Psy. D. program in neuropsychology and works in clinical practice where she conducts expert neuropsychological evaluations.