Grant Iverson, PhD

Dr. Grant Iverson is the Associate Director of Traumatic Brain Injury at Home Base. Dr. Iverson worked previously at The University of British Columbia from 1995-2012, where he served as a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. He joined the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School in 2013.

Dr. Iverson is a clinician scientist in the area of outcome from mild traumatic brain injury in athletes, civilians, service members, and veterans. He served on the consensus panels for the 3rd and 4th International Conferences on Concussion in Sport in Zurich, Switzerland in 2008 and 2012. He was a founding member of the Traumatic Brain Injury Subcommittee of the Defense Health Board, a civilian advisory board to the United States Secretary of Defense. He served as an Advisor to the Neurocognitive Disorders Workgroup (Traumatic Brain Injury) for the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-V). He is a leading proponent of a broad-based biopsychosocial conceptualization of good and poor outcome following mild traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Iverson is an active clinical researcher in the areas of traumatic brain injury, depression, and the clinical and psychometric aspects of neuropsychological assessment. He is engaged in a multi-year research program designed to develop and evaluate evidence-based psychometric guidelines for identifying mild cognitive impairment in psychiatry and neurology. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 310 empirical articles, reviews, and book chapters.