Live webinar air date: March 11, 2025
Date
CE credits
1.5
Exam items
10
Series
Navigating the Long COVID Landscape from a Psychological Lens
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Description
The presenters will summarize the clinical, research, and policy landscape of long covid as it pertains to psychologists and the current healthcare environment. They will describe long COVID presentations and psychological/neuropsychological profiles in pediatric populations. The presenters will discuss how long covid neuropsychiatric symptoms manifest across ethnoracially diverse populations, with consideration for health disparities and social determinants of health that shape adult and pediatric patient outcomes. Lastly, the presenters will discuss the role of psychologists as advocates and care providers for this chronic illness population that has been stigmatized.
Learning objectives
- Summarize the clinical, research, and policy landscape of long covid as it pertains to psychologists.
- Describe long covid presentations and neuropsychological profiles in pediatric populations.
- Examine how long covid neuropsychiatric symptoms manifest across ethnoracially diverse populations, with consideration for health disparities and social determinants of health that shape patient outcomes.
Presenters
Jacqueline Becker, PhD
Becker is a clinical neuropsychologist, assistant professor of medicine, and health services researcher in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Becker is master principal investigator of the NIH’s RECOVER-Neuro, a multisite randomized controlled trial to treat cognitive dysfunction post-COVID-19. She is principal investigator of a NIH/National Institute for Mental Health randomized controlled trial to treat comorbid cognitive dysfunction and depression in persons with long COVID.
Christine Koterba, PhD, ABPP
Koterba is a pediatric neuropsychologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (NCH) and a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at The Ohio State University. She is the attending inpatient neuropsychologist at NCH and provides neuropsychological consultation and assessment in inpatient and outpatient settings. She is also involved in the pre- and postdoctoral neuropsychological training programs.
Kristen Hoskinson, PhD
Hoskinson is a licensed pediatric neuropsychologist based in Columbus, Ohio. She is an associate professor of pediatrics, with tenure, at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and is principal investigator of her lab in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Her newer line of research is focused on neurologic manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children and long COVID, and contributions of the COVID-19 pandemic to behavioral, cognitive, and social outcomes in children and adolescents.
