Gina Pfeifle, PhD

Gina is a pediatric neuropsychologist, a psychologist who specializes in the connections between the brain and behavior. She provides consultations and assessments for children and adolescents with medical conditions that affect brain development. Pfeifle earned a doctorate in educational and school psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed a predoctoral internship in pediatric psychology/neuropsychology at Texas Children's Hospital. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. She serves as training director for the UCSF Division of Developmental Medicine's pediatric neuropsychology externship. Pfeifle strives to answer parents' questions about their children in order to foster understanding and to support the whole family's emotional well-being.