Dr. Lacritz obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology at UT Austin in 1989 with highest honers. She went on to obtain her doctorate degree at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Clinical Psychology where she served as chief resident. Dr. Lacritz completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Neuropsychology from 1995 to 1997.
Dr. Lacritz joined the U.T. Southwestern Faculty in 1997. Her departmental activities include neuropsychological/cognitive evaluation of persons with known or suspected neurological disorders, involvement with the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at UT Southwestern,and teaching/training of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. She is the chair of the Psychiatry Faculty Development and Retention Committee, and serves as a member of the Steering,Clinical Training, and competency committees in the graduate clinical psychology program. Dr. Lacritz’s clinical expertise is in the areas of neuropsychological assessment, with particular interest in working with individuals who have dementia, epilepsy, movement disorders, brain tumors, and head injury.
Dr. Lacritz’s research foci are in the areas of Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, movement disorders, epilepsy, and psychometric assessment. She is also interested in how to best use neuropsychological assessment in the early detection of dementia.
