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Mark Sherer, PhD

Associate Vice President for Research
TIRR Memorial Hermann
Houston, Texas, United States

Mark Sherer, PhD, serves as Associate Vice President for Research at TIRR Memorial Hermann. In this role, he coordinates research activities at TIRR Memorial Hermann. A board-certified neuropsychologist with 40 years of experience as a clinician, administrator and educator in brain injury rehabilitation, Dr. Sherer is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the National Academy of Neuropsychology and the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine.

Dr. Sherer has served as principal investigator for grants on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) recovery, impaired self-awareness, telephone counseling for persons with TBI, TBI community integration and rehabilitation of brain tumor patients, treatment of agitation and aggressiveness after TBI, and rehabilitation of brain tumor patients. He has published more than 180 articles and book chapters and made numerous presentations at state, national and international conferences. He is currently the Principal Investigator for the Texas Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Model System at TIRR Memorial Hermann.

He is the recipient of Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation, awarded by The University of Texas Medical Branch School of Health Professions and the Transitional Learning Center of Galveston. His scientific and clinical contributions have also been acknowledged with the Mitchell Rosenthal Award for Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Database Research, awarded by the TBI Model Systems Program; the Leonard Diller Award for Scholarly Contributions to Neurorehabilitation from the American Psychological Association Division of Rehabilitation Psychology; the Williams Fields Caveness Award for National and International Contributions to Bettering the Lives of People Who Have Sustained Brain Injury, from the Brain Injury Association of America; and the Harold E. Yuker Award for Research Excellence from the Rehabilitation Psychology Journal and the Rehabilitation Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association.

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