Virginia Olga B. Emery, PhD

Virginia Olga B. Emery, Ph.D., is recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime Member in the field of Psychology. Dr. Emery is a Psychologist and Researcher with more than three decades of professional experience. She is known for her work and for conceptualizing non-infarct vascular dementia as well as pioneering development of the concept of depressive dementia and vascular dementia. She is also responsible for pioneering the development of the concept of depressive dementia indicating depression is a risk for dementia. Beginning her career in the 1980s, Dr. Emery served as an Assistant Professor of Psychology and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western University.

She has served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School since 1989, as well as Director of New Hampshire Center on Aging, Health, and Society, also since 1989. She is also a lecturer for third world congress controversies in neurology, in the Czech Republic. Dr. Emery earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1962, a Master of Arts degree from Indiana University in 1973 and her Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 1982. She is a licensed psychologist in the states of both New Hampshire and Ohio. To further her professional development, Dr. Emery became a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and has been a member of the American Psychological Association, the New Hampshire Psychological Association, the American Board of Disability Analysts and the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.

 

In recognition of her outstanding work in the field, Dr. Emery was honored with the following awards: a research prize from the American Aging Association; the Havighurst Prize for Aging Research from the University of Chicago; the Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award from the Gerontological Society of America; the New Hampshire Hospital Award for Outstanding Research on Dementia; the Riggs Award; and the International Psychogeriatric Association Original Research Award/Bayer Research Award. In looking to the future, Dr. Emery intends to continue to provide top-of-the-line psychological services while taking on new research projects and opportunities as they arise. She dedicates this recognition to the loving memory of her husband, who served as the Chief Psychiatrist at the Manchester VA hospital.