Specializing in: Adjustment to Illness or Injury Clinical Neuropsychology Stress Management/Health Habit Change Executive/Personal Coaching Forensic Psychology

Dr. P. Carol Bullard-Bates, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist who completed her B.A. at Wellesley College, in Massachusetts, her Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and her postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Florida where she was a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow. She has worked at the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital since 1987.

Previous to coming to MedStar NRH she worked at the University of North Dakota Rehabilitation Hospital in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and the Royal Ottawa Rehabilitation Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital, both in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Bullard-Bates is a member of the American Psychological Association, the International Neuropsychological Society, and the National Academy of Neuropsychology. She is listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. She has specialty interests in stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury and cardiac disease. She is licensed in the District of Columbia and Maryland.

Publications

Bullard-Bates, P. Carol, Bozzo, Helen, and Hendricks, Jennifer. "Quality of Life after a Stroke" in Rao, Paul R., Ozer, Mark N., Toerge, John E. (Eds.), Managing Stroke: A Guide to Living Well after Stroke , MedStar NRH Press, Washington, D.C., 2000.

Bullard-Bates, P. C., & Halstead L. S., "Sexuality," in S. L. Groah (Ed.), Managing Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide to Living Well after Spinal Cord Injury. Washington, D.C.: MedStar NRH Press, 2005