Kim Gorgens is a Professor of Psychophysiology, Clinical Neuropsychology and Psychology of Criminal Behavior at the University of Denver. She manages a large portfolio of brain injury related research and has lectured extensively on those issues around the world. She has a 2010 TED talk on youth sports concussion and a 2018 TED talk on brain injuries in criminal justice with 3.5M views. She has been interviewed on CNN with Anderson Cooper, NPR, and on 20/20 and her work with brain injuries has been featured in USNews, Newsweek, The Economist, and more. Her research studies the reported injury history, cognitive function, and brain biomarkers of all vulnerable populations including young and older athletes, probationers and inmates, persons who are homeless, and women who have been exposed to interpersonal violence.

Gorgens is board-certified in Rehabilitation Psychology and is the Past-President of the American Psychological Association’s Division on Rehabilitation Psychology. She is also the former Vice President of the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology, a former President of the Colorado Neuropsychological Society, a previous Chair of the American Psychological Association Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology, and served as an elected representative on the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives. She has a boutique forensic practice with juvenile, homicide, and death penalty cases around the country and is active in legislative and policy development around best practices in brain injury. Specifically, as part of the Colorado Brain Injury Legislative Collaborative, she was involved in drafting and supporting the 2011 concussion law for the State of Colorado (Senate Bill 40 – The Jake Snakenberg Youth Concussion Act), and the 2021 Senate Bill to require screening for brain injuries in Department of Corrections and the 2022 Senate Bill to require that victims of violent crime be screened for brain injury.