Dr. Ross Gourvitz worked for nearly two decades in hospitals and health systems in Chicago and New York City before coming to New Hampshire. Before co-founding LIFESTAGES, he spent six years as the Director and Lead Neuropsychologist for the Elliot Memory and Mobility Center, where he was also one of the founding clinicians.  He completed his predoctoral internship in Rehabilitation Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. His fellowship training was in Clinical Neuropsychology at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.

 

He previously also worked with the University of Chicago Hospitals, Bellevue Hospital Center, Kingsbrook Rehabilitation Institute, and New York University Medical Center. He was Director of Neuropsychology at Lutheran Medical Center (now NYU Langone Brooklyn) in Brooklyn, New York, where he co-founded their Memory Center. In addition to memory disorders, Dr. Gourvitz has extensive experience working with individuals with traumatic brain injury, stroke, multiple sclerosis, learning differences, and seizure disorders.

 

He has served on the undergraduate Psychology teaching faculty of Loyola University of Chicago and on the undergraduate and graduate Psychology teaching faculty at Brooklyn College.  He has a particular interest in post traumatic stress, having worked at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture in New York City and the Marjorie Kovler Center in Chicago.  He recently completed a Masters Degree in Health Care Delivery Science at Dartmouth College, which was a joint program of the The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the Tuck School of Business.