Ruth T. Morin, PhD

Ruth Morin, Ph.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist (PSY32825). She earned her doctorate from Columbia University, with clinical training from Columbia University Medical Center’s Neurology department and Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, and Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City. She completed her clinical internship at the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center in Detroit, MI, and two-year advanced research/clinical fellowship specializing in geriatric neuropsychology at San Francisco VA Medical Center/University of California San Francisco. In addition to her clinical focus on neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy, movement disorders, traumatic brain injury, and cognitive effects of psychiatric illness, she is actively involved in nationally recognized research in late life suicide prevention. Dr. Morin has authored over 25 publications in areas such as geriatric depression and intersections with neurobiological markers of degenerative disease, population-based studies of medical and psychiatric comorbidity in suicide decedents receiving VA healthcare, and the utilization of novel data analytic methods to investigate latent clinical populations among older adults with a variety of health concerns. In 2018, she received the NIH Matilda White Riley early career investigator award for her research, and speaks regularly to national academic and clinical audiences regarding suicide prevention.