Brief Biography
Donald Stuss is the Reva James Leeds Chair in Neuroscience and Research Leadership; U. of Toronto University Professor of Psychology and Medicine (Neurology and Rehabilitation Science): Vice-President Research and Academic Education, Baycrest; Director of the Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, as well as senior scientist; past Vice-President Research of Baycrest Centre (1991-2004); registered psychologist (Ont); Diplomate, American Board of Professional Psychology-Clinical Neuropsychology. Honours: fellow of Canadian Psychological Association, American Psychological Association (Divisions 3, 6, 40), American Psychological Society, and the Stroke Council of the American Heart and Stroke Association; Order of Ontario (2001); in 2004 the University of Toronto Faculty Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and election to University Professor status at the University of Toronto; in 2005 Fellow, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Publications; in 2007 the APA/APF FJ McGuigan Lecture on Understanding the Human Mind: three books; over 150 peer-reviewed publications; 45 chapters; and over 250 invited scientific lectures and workshops. His primary emphasis is on the understanding and rehabilitation of the functions of the frontal lobes, in patients with focal lesions as well as in those with traumatic brain injury or dementia.