Welcome to the PMI Practical Memory Institute®
A CENTER OF MEMORY EXCELLENCE
Improving Memory Skills For Today…And Maintaining Memory Fitness For Life™.
PMI is dedicated to providing the latest knowledge about human memory skills, memory fitness and performance across the lifespan. Here, you can follow the latest in memory science and how it can help improve your success in everyday life. One focus is on ‘cognitive health literacy’ – knowing what you need to know about memory fitness, what it is and how to achieve your optimum level in order to maximize your cognitive vitality into late life. Another focus is application of neuroplasticity to the concept of memory fitness. Our self-help programs are designed for normal individuals to improve their memory at home, school or work. Our Memory Works® programs have also attracted the interest of caregivers and professional clinicians.
PMI was created during the Decade of the Brain, 1990-2000, and in some ways has been inspired by the growing interest in research into the workings of the brain, especially memory and cognition.
PMI Executive Director Douglas Herrmann, Ph.D., and the entire staff, welcome and invite you to visit PMI at MemoryZine.com often. PMI produces: The Memory Works® self-help programs; COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY® the official journal of PMI; Memory University®, Memory Monitor®, Sharper Memory Monitor®, Memory Workout®, Attention Workout™ and other useful programs and helpful information about cognitive health literacy, memory fitness and reduction of age-related memory impairment across the lifespan.
PMI has information for:
Anyone who wants, or needs, to have a better memory for success;
Caregivers concerned with memory performance issues;
Professionals (psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, researchers, therapists, educators, etc.) involved with research, education or who assist individuals suffering from clinical memory impairment or cognitive deficits;
Everyone interested in neuroplasticity, lifespan memory fitness and cognitive vitality into old age.
PMI’s SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Douglas Herrmann, Ph.D., Executive Director
James O. Hill, Ph.D., Director for Lifestyle Research
George Rebok, Ph.D., Director for Aging & Memory
J. Preston Harley, Ph.D., Director for Clinical Neuropsychology
Rick Parente’, Ph.D., Director for Memory Rehabilitation
Roger Morrell, Ph.D., Director for Technology & Interface
Joan Toglia, Ph.D., Director for Deficit Awareness Research
Stephen Fiore’, Ph.D., Editor, Cognitive Technology
Robert Rager, President & Chief Executive Officer
Douglas Herrmann, Ph.D., PMI Executive Director and Co-founder, is an internationally known researcher in memory and cognition with over 40 years as a research psychologist and professor. He has published over 90 peer reviewed scientific articles, over 30 chapters in edited books, and over 20 books on memory and cognition, including investigations that focus on age and memory. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, he has served as the Chair of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. He has been an active participant in the development of NIH sponsored, science-based human memory skills products resulting in the innovative Memory Works® CD-ROM series, produced through research funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. Since 1995, Dr. Herrmann led the development of PMI’s Multi Modal Model® of Memory, which has provided the theoretical basis for PMI’s Memory Works® products. Dr. Herrmann was founding Editor of COGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY®, PMI’s official peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the enhancement of cognitive functioning through the collaboration of basic and applied cognitive research. Dr. Herrmann has chaired the Psychology Departments at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, IN. He directed the Collection Procedures Research Laboratory at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and conducted cognitive research at the Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge, England, the University of Manchester in Manchester, England, the National Institute of Health and the National Center for Health Statistics. He is known to the public through several textbooks, including including Retraining Cognition: Techniques and Applications with Dr. Parente’, and popular press books, including SuperMemory, How To Cure Your Memory Failures, and Improving Memory and Study Skills. Currently, Dr. Herrmann also serves as Chancellor of PMI’s Memory University®.
James O. Hill, Ph.D., PMI’s Director for Lifestyle Research, is one of America’s foremost experts in weight management and energy expenditure. He has published over 350 scientific articles and book chapters and lectures widely about weight management during over 25 years of researching the causes of weight gain, adiposity, and obesity and how to prevent or treat these problems. His research in the obesity field involves the study of lifestyle factors that affect body weight regulation. Dr. Hill is the recipient of a prestigious MERIT award from NIH and the recipient of the 2004 Centrum Center Award from the American Society of Nutritional Sciences. He is well known as a co-founder of America On The Move and the National Weight Control Registry, which follows over 3000 people who have lost weight and kept it off permanently. He was a member of the Expert Panel that developed the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Management of Overweight and Obesity and was chair of the first World Health Organization Consultation on Obesity. He has served as president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and as Vice-President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity. He is Editor-in-Chief of Obesity Management and the author of the Step Diet Book, published in June 2004. Dr. Hill, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, is a member of the editorial boards of Obesity Research, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and The International Journal of Obesity.
George W. Rebok, Ph.D., PMI’s Director for Aging and Memory, has over 25 years of experience in research on cognition and developmental neuropsychology, preventive interventions, and gerontology. In addition to his involvement with the Maryland Older Driver Consortium, his research includes studies on memory interventions with the elderly and the effects of aging and dementia on driving and other everyday functional tasks including the benefits of physical activity on memory under NIH grant funding. He is currently a Principal Investigator for Project ACTIVE, a long-term multi-site NIH funded study of the effects of cognitive intervention on everyday aging, and an Investigator on an NIA-funded study of pilot aging and aviation safety. Dr. Rebok has published more than 85 peer reviewed articles and book chapters based on his research objectives which include: identification of early risk and protective factors on later life cognitive health and daily function; prevention of age-related cognitive decline, memory loss, depression, and disability; study of the short- and long-term outcomes of cognitive intervention trials with children and with normal and impaired older adults. Dr. Rebok is on Editorial Board of Cognitive Technology and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Institute for the Study of Aging in New York. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America, Dr. Rebok is a Professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health at The Johns Hopkins University and holds a joint faculty appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
J. Preston Harley, Ph.D., PMI’s Director for Clinical Neuropsychology, is a nationally recognized clinical neuropsychologist with nearly 30 years of contributions to the evaluation and treatment of traumatic brain injuries. A Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and Member of the International Neuropsychological Society, he is also a member of the Clinical Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology divisions of the American Psychological Association. Dr. Harley, Principal Investigator for new memory fitness research programs funded by NIH, serves as Chair of the State of Illinois Advisory Council on Spinal Cord and Head Injuries and as surveyor for the Commission of Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. As a member of The Cognitive Rehabilitation Task Force of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group, Dr. Harley has participated in 2 systematic reviews of cognitive rehabilitation after TBI or stroke, which served as the basis for specific practice recommendations for the profession.
Rick Parente’, Ph.D., PMI’s Director for Memory Rehabilitation, has practiced cognitive rehabilitation therapy for over 25 years. His research and theory interests include particular emphasis on group cognitive skills training for brain injured clients. Since1986, he has served as Neuropsychological Consultant at the Maryland Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Parente’ is an active advisory board member of the Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation. He has published three books on cognitive rehabilitation, including Retraining Cognition: Techniques and Applications in addition to over 50 journal articles on the topic of brain injury rehabilitation. Dr. Parente’ serves as Associate Editor for Cognitive Rehabilitation Research for PMI’s Official Journal, The International Journal of Cognitive Technology. Dr. Parente’ is Professor of Psychology at Towson University in Maryland and adjunct professor of Physiology at the University of Maryland Dental School.
Roger W. Morrell, Ph.D., PMI’s Director for Human Factors, has published for 20 years on the use of electronic technology by older adults and health literacy issues including medication compliance and cognitive vitality. He co-chaired the first national conference on “Older Adults, Health Information, and the World Wide Web,” and served as consultant to the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine in the development of the NIH Senior Health Online Project. Dr. Morrell has an appointment of Adjunct Faculty at Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing.
Joan Toglia, Ph.D., OTR/L, PMI’s Director for Deficit Awareness Research, has over 20 years of clinical experience in acquired brain injury awareness. Specializing in issues related to successful cognitive rehabilitation and return to productive living, Dr. Toglia is co-investigator on PMI research to apply Memory Works tools to improve outcomes. Dr. Toglia is Associate Professor and Director, Occupational Therapy Program at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York and Professional Associate of Rehabilitation Medicine at Cornell Medical Center’s New York Presbyterian Hospital, providing clinical consultation on neurological patients; inservices and training to occupational therapy staff. Dr. Toglia, who received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, has authored over 30 articles and book chapters. An active member of the American Occupational Therapy Association and NYSOTA, she is an internationally recognized lecturer, and Lecturer of Rehabilitation Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY.
Stephen Fiore’, Ph.D., is Editor of Cognitive Technology, PMI’s Official Journal.
Dr. Fiore’ is on the faculty of the University of Central Florida’s Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at UCF’s Institute for Simulation and Training. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, Learning Research and Development Center. He maintains a multidisciplinary research interest that incorporates aspects of the cognitive, social, and computational sciences in the investigation of learning and performance in individuals and teams. In addition to his role as Editor of Cognitive Technology, he is co-Editor of recent volumes on Macrocognition in Teams (2008), Distributed Learning (2007), Team Cognition (2004), and he has co-authored over 100 scholarly publications in the area of learning, memory, and problem solving at the individual and the group level. As Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator he has helped to secure and manage approximately $15 Million in research funding from organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Department of Homeland Security.
Robert Rager, PMI’s Founding President & Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for operations and commercial business development. A former General Electric Presidential Exchange Executive serving in the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service as Special Assistant to The Undersecretary of International Affairs, Mr. Rager has over 30 years of business and venture management experience with companies including General Electric, Project Software & Development, Inc., Potomac Industries, Ltd., and Compact Disc Incorporated, the originator of The Memory Works® Series. Mr. Rager, with over 20 years of health care industry publishing experience, including PMI’s MemoryZine.com web site, earned a BA in Chemistry from Hunter College of the City University of New York, holds patents in computer diskette storage devices and has served as Principal Investigator for over 15 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health. He is Senior Officer of the Compact Disc Inc #1 Institutional Review Board and a registered Consultant to NIH Grant Review Panels.
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