Lisa Jacobson PhD, NCSP, ABPP
Director of research and co-director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education, Kennedy Kreiger Institute
Lisa Jacobson, PhD, is a nationally certified school psychologist and a board certified pediatric neuropsychologist at Kennedy Krieger Institute, where she is the director of research and the co-director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education. She is an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She studies measurement, disorders, and treatment of executive functioning in children with developmental and medical conditions. She is an expert in cognitive disengagement syndrome (formerly known as sluggish cognitive tempo).