Kimberly C. Davis, PhD

Personal Statement

Dr. Kimberly Davis is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist and research scientist in the Psychology Service at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH). She is also an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Section within the Department of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). Dr. Davis is a passionate scholar-practitioner specializing in the field of Pediatric Rehabilitation Psychology/Neuropsychology. She serves as the principal consultant on the TCH Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit where she provides comprehensive assessment, consultation, and family education for children, adolescents, and young adults with recently acquired brain injury.  Dr. Davis’ primary research interests involve measuring and predicting outcomes following moderate-to-severe pediatric brain injury. Previous projects have included meta-analysis of measures of brain-injury severity and evaluation of motor disturbance during brain-injury associated delirium. Current projects focus on characterizing the recovery trajectories of children participating in acute inpatient rehabilitation and examining injury-related and psychosocial factors as predictor’s recovery. 

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Davis, K.C., Slomine, B., Salorio, C., & Suskauer, S. (2016). Time to Follow Commands and Duration of Posttraumatic Amnesia Predict GOS-E Peds Scores 1 to 2 Years after TBI in Children Requiring Inpatient Rehabilitation. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 31, E39-47 doi: 10.1097/HTR.0000000000000159.

Cappa, K. A., Conger, J. C., & Conger A.J. (2011). Injury Severity and Outcome: A meta-analysis of prospective studies on TBI outcome. Health Psychology 30, 542-560. doi: 10.1037/a0025220.