Dr. Cady Block is a neuropsychologist and assistant professor within the Department of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, USA. She completed her PhD in Medical-Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama – Birmingham, which included a predoctoral internship at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She then went on to complete her postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.
Though highly active in clinical and scholarly endeavors, Dr. Block has a particular passion for working with neuropsychology students and trainees at all levels. She is highly involved in multiple national and international neuropsychology organizations, having previously served as Chair of both the student and early career committees of the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (SCN), in addition to other roles within the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), Clinical Neuropsychology Synarchy, and Epilepsy Neuropsychology Organization (INS SIG). She is a recipient of numerous awards including the Early Career Service Award (NAN), Presidential Citation Award (SCN), Early Career Champion Award from the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Raymond Fowler Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Professional Development of Graduate Students (APAGS). She is the editor of the text The Neuropsychologist’s Roadmap: A Training and Career Guide (APA Press) and co-editor of the upcoming text Medical Neuropsychology: A Systems-Based Approach (Guilford Press).