Vanessa
Scarborough
,
PhD, ABPP

Vanessa Scarborough headshot
Neuropsychologist, Department of Neuropsychology
Kennedy Krieger Institute

1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21231
United States

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About

Dr. Scarborough is a licensed clinical psychologist and board certified pediatric neuropsychologist in the Department of Neuropsychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute. She provides comprehensive outpatient neuropsychological evaluations (English & Spanish) for children and adolescents with acquired, congenital and neurodevelopmental disorders primality through the Congenital/Genetic Disorders Clinic.

Education 

Dr. Scarborough received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, IL, and completed her pre-doctoral internship training in child clinical and pediatric psychology at the Children’s Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. After receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Scarborough completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, OH.

In 2010, following completion of her post-doctoral fellowship, Dr. Scarborough joined the Neuropsychology Department at Kennedy Krieger. While at Kennedy Krieger she completed comprehensive outpatient neuropsychological evaluations (English & Spanish) for children and adolescents with acquired, congenital and neurodevelopmental disorders, with a special focus on epilepsy and traumatic brain injuries. Clinical services also included the provision of brief neuropsychological evaluations in a multidisciplinary concussion clinic. In addition to providing clinical services, she was also involved in training and supervision of pre-doctoral externs and post-doctoral fellows.

After seven years at Kennedy Krieger, Dr. Scarborough joined the Neuropsychology Department at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) in St. Petersburg, FL. In addition to providing outpatient neuropsychological evaluations, she also provided inpatient neuropsychological evaluations including pre- and post-surgical evaluations at JHACH. She also participated in the training and supervision of pre-doctoral interns and post-doctoral fellows.

In 2019, Dr. Scarborough relocated back to MD providing neuropsychological, psychological and psychoeducational evaluations in a private practice setting located in Baltimore County. She also provided mentorship to neuropsychology post-doctoral fellows at Kennedy Krieger.

Dr. Scarborough returned to the Neuropsychology Department at Kennedy Krieger in 2020. She currently provides comprehensive outpatient neuropsychological evaluations (English & Spanish) for children and adolescents with acquired, congenital and neurodevelopmental disorders, primarily through Congenital/Genetic Disorders Clinic.