Your Instructor
Kate Wyman was born and raised in Boise, Idaho. She earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Pacific University in 2015. In 2017, she completed a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology within the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia Health System. In 2019, Dr. Wyman became board certified in clinical neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology.
She is currently employed as a neuropsychologist at the HealthPartners Neuroscience Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota where she participates in several interdisciplinary clinics, including the Struthers Parkinson's Center and the Center for Memory and Aging. Dr. Wyman has been selected to attend several fully-funded programs for early-career Parkinson's disease researchers including the MDS/Parkinson Foundation "Fostering New Directions" course in 2015 and the junior-investigator training at the Parkinson Study Group meeting in 2017. She was also accepted as a participant in the NIH early-career reviewer program. Dr. Wyman's current research is interdisciplinary and focuses on the cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms in the early stages of Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.
She is a multi-instrumentalist and enjoys traveling and collecting vinyl records.