Kim Gorgens is a Professor of Psychophysiology, Clinical Neuropsychology, and Psychology of Criminal Behavior at the University of Denver. She leads extensive brain-injury research and has lectured worldwide. Her 2010 TED talk on youth sports concussion and 2018 TED talk on brain injury in criminal justice have wide viewership (the latter: 3.5M views). She’s been interviewed on CNN (Anderson Cooper), NPR, and 20/20, and her work has appeared in US News, Newsweek, The Economist, and other outlets.

Her research examines injury history, cognitive function, and brain biomarkers across vulnerable groups: young and older athletes, probationers and inmates, people who are homeless, and women exposed to interpersonal violence. Gorgens is board-certified in Rehabilitation Psychology and has held leadership roles in major professional organizations, including past president of the APA Division on Rehabilitation Psychology and other leadership posts in the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology, Colorado Neuropsychological Society, and APA committees and council.

She runs a boutique forensic practice handling juvenile, homicide, and death-penalty cases nationwide and works on policy and legislation for brain-injury best practices. She helped draft and support Colorado laws requiring youth concussion protocols (2011), brain-injury screening in the Department of Corrections (2021), and screening for victims of violent crime (2022).