Bio — Scientific Advisory Board member

Robert W. Thatcher, Ph.D.

Dr. Robert W. Thatcher received his Ph.D. degree in Psychology with a major in Biopsychology from the University of Waterloo before completing postdoctoral fellowships in Neurobiology and Neurophysiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York Medical College. He has published over 200 papers and has written or edited six books. Dr. Thatcher was the director of the QEEG service at Shock Trauma, University of Maryland from 1979 to 1990 before joining the National Institutes of Health as the Program Manager for the integration of 128 channel EEG with MRI and PET. Dr. Thatcher was the director of the data analysis center for the Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program (DVHIP) and he was the director of the EEG and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center, Bay Pines, Florida. Dr. Thatcher oversaw the collection and analysis of quantitative EEG and MRI from over 1,500 head-injured patients. He is currently the director of EEG and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Applied Neuroscience Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Dr. Thatcher served on the National Institutes of Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the NIH Human Brain Map Project and he sits on the boards of the American Board of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology and the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society. Dr. Thatcher was the chairman of the committee for the integration of EEG/MEG into the “Human Brain-Map” as part of the NIMH and NSF Human Brain Project. He is a certified Neurotherapist by the Academy of Certified Neurotherapists and the Biofeedback Certification Institute of America (BCIA) and he was certified in EEG/QEEG/Neurophysiology, EEG and Clinical Neuroscience by the American Board of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology (ABEN). Dr. Thatcher is on the Ph.D. Examination Board for the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society. He has served on the editorial board of different journals and has received various honors such as the Life Time Achievement Award for Work in the Scientific Specialty of QEEG, American Board of Certification of Quantitative Electroencephalography; also, he received the Hans Berger Award of Merit from the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB).

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