Asst Professor
University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine/ Children's Hospital Colorado
Christine Petranovich, PhD is a pediatric neuropsychologist in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Dr. Petranovich completes inpatient and outpatient neuropsychological evaluations as part of the Acquired Brain Injury Clinic, a multidisciplinary service that includes providers from neuropsychology, rehabilitation medicine, occupational, physical, and speech/ language therapy, and education/ school reentry coordination. Her research is focused on behavioral, emotional, and cognitive outcomes in children and adolescents with a history of early childhood complicated mild to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and with cerebral cavernous malformations. Dr. Petranovich is particularly interested in better understanding the contributions of family-related factors on the development and persistence of cognitive and psychosocial difficulties.