Dr. Zakzanis received his Honours B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical Psychology from York University. He is a tenured Full Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Dr. Zakzanis is a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario and licensed to practice within the province of Ontario in both Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology. Dr. Zakzanis is a member of the Ontario, Canadian and American Psychological Associations, as well as the International Neuropsychological Society, American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (Affiliate Member), the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and the Canadian Academy of Psychologists in Disability Assessment, and is the sitting President for the Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators.  To date, Dr. Zakzanis has undertaken psychological and neuropsychological impairment assessments, including catastrophic examinations using the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. Here, he holds C-CAT(MB) and CMLE(O) Certification from CSME/CAPDA as a founding developer of the certification programs and credentialing examination committees and has moreover completed the CMCC AMA Guides to Impairment Rating program and is AMA certified in the 4th Edition. Dr. Zakzanis has also completed all requirements for the Program of Insurance Medicine and Medico-legal Expertise with the Université de Montreal, Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Zakzanis has been qualified as an expert in Psychology and Neuropsychology by FSCO arbitrators and by the Courts in Ontario, and permitted to give expert testimony on areas within his scope of expertise. Dr. Zakzanis is also continuously active in clinical research with peer reviewed publications related to psychological and neuropsychological assessment (e.g., test sensitivity; malingering; psychometric test development, etc.), various clinical disorders (e.g., traumatic brain injury/concussion; major depressive disorder; schizophrenia; dementia, etc.) and various clinical and research methodologies (e.g., brain imaging; meta-analysis, etc.). Dr. Zakzanis has also given numerous invited addresses on clinical psychology and neuropsychology at national and international meetings.  He has received research grant support from federal and provincial funding agencies and has received research, teaching and service awards. Dr. Zakzanis has also served as an academic supervisor for numerous undergraduate and graduate students. Moreover, Dr. Zakzanis is a current Editorial Board Member for Psychological Injury and the Law, and a past Associate Editor for Neuropsychology. He is also a current Consulting Editor to The Clinical Neuropsychologist and The Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, and has, moreover, served as an editorial referee for numerous peer reviewed research journals. 

Awards

  • 2020 Brain Injury Association of Peel and Halton (BIAPH) Award.
  • 2015 University of Toronto Scarborough Arts & Science Co-op Program Faculty Ambassador Award 
  • 2011 University of Toronto Dean’s Recognition of Service
  • 2009 Nominee, TVO’s 2010 Ontario’s Best Lecturer Competition
  • 2009 University of Toronto Faculty Teaching Award
  • 2008 Nominee, TVO’s 2009 Ontario’s Best Lecturer Competition
  • 2005 University of Toronto Faculty Research Award
  • 2000 Premier’s Research Excellence Award
  • 1999 Ontario Psychological Association Masters Thesis Award recipient
  • 1999 York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize
  • 1997 American Psychological Association Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) Research Award recipient for the outstanding scientific paper and presentation
  • 1997 Governor General’s Gold Medal Award Nomination
  • 1998 American Psychological Association Travel Award
  • 1997 American Psychological Association Travel Award
  • 1996-2000 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • 1996 York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Thesis Prize Nomination for MA Thesis

 

book chapters:

Grimes, K., Mullin, S. & Zakzanis, K.K. (In Press). Intelligence: Behind us, before us,

and ahead of us. In “Comprehensive Clinical Psychology. Elsevier.

 

Grimes, K. Jeffay, E., & Zakzanis, K.K. (in Press) The role of apathy in traumatic brain

injury. Oxford University Press

 

Dhillon, S.,& Zakzanis, K.K.(2019).  Cognitive Reserve and Depression. In

Handbook of Neurocognitive Function in Depression: Scientific Foundations and Clinical Practice. New York, NY: Guildford Press.

 

Jovanovski, D., & Zakzanis K. K. (In press). On the use of virtual reality as an

outcome measure in clinical neuropsychological rehabilitation. In, R. Kane & T. Parson (Eds.) The Role of Technology in Clinical Neuropsychology, New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

 

Graham, S. G., Quintin, G., Mraz, R., Hong, J., & Zakzanis, K. K. (2006).

Combining virtual reality experiments with functional magnetic resonance imaging: Initial work assessing human spatial navigation. In, Proceedings of the First Annual Cybertherapy Conference.

 

Zakzanis, K. K., & Ruttan, L. A. (1997). KOSMOS TOAST: A Test for the

Organizational Awareness of Systems Thinking.  In J. W. Pfeiffer (Ed.),

Consulting (pp. 145-162), Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Jossey-Bass.

 

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