Dr. Jeff Cory is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist (ABPP-CN) educated at Stanford University (B.A.); Colorado State University (M.S., Ph.D.); and UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute (Postdoctoral Fellowship) who resides in Bozeman, Montana. He is a Licensed Psychologist in Montana, Colorado, Utah and California.
Dr. Cory is an Adjunct Professor in the WWAMI Medical Program through Montana State University, and a Clinical Instructor in the University of Washington School of Medicine (Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Along with his primary clinical practice through Bozeman Health Neuroscience Center, he is the owner of Rocky Mountain Neuropsychology PLLC where he conducts forensic neuropsychological evaluation and consultation services to third-party customers (e.g., attorneys, courts, disability carriers, workers’ comp, schools, organizations). Dr. Cory has extensive training in the neuropsychological consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI), including Post-Concussion Syndrome, and other brain insults such as carbon monoxide poisoning that are often the subject of personal injury actions.
He also conducts evaluations of various civil capacities (e.g., financial, testamentary, guardianship).
Dr. Cory is fluent in Spanish and has considerable training, research experience and years of clinical practice in conducting Spanish-language and cross-cultural neuropsychological evaluations, including in a civil tort medicolegal context. He is a member of the Hispanic Neuropsychological Society, among other professional organizations in his field.
He has conducted neuropsychological evaluations and has provided testimony in criminal legal cases (including competency to stand trial, mental state at time of offense, and writ of habeas corpus appeal, as well as during sentencing).
In addition to neuropsychological evaluations with a focus on brain functioning, he conducts psychological evaluations of individuals with chronic pain, including IMEs of injured workers being considered for invasive pain treatment (e.g., spinal fusion, spinal cord stimulator), as well as forensic evaluations in claims of psychological injury, such as PTSD.
As a scientist-practitioner, Dr. Cory strives to base any medicolegal opinions in the established scientific (empirical) evidence base, as well as to conduct evaluations consistent with Daubert or Frye admissibility standards applicable to the instant legal setting/jurisdiction.