Biography
Charles Moreno is a second-year graduate student in the Neuropsychology track of UF’s Clinical and Health Psychology doctoral program under the mentorship of Dr. Rus Bauer. He completed a 12-month tour to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom as a former US Marine. After his enlistment, he graduated from San Diego State University in Spring 2016 with B.A. in Psychology and a Minor in LGBT Studies. During his undergraduate studies, he was a research assistant at the Center for Healthy Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease Research under the direction of Dr. Paul Gilbert.
Clinical and Research Focus
His research interests include examining memory change following repetitive head injuries in collision sport athletes. He is also interested in the structure-function relationship in underrepresented populations. Specifically, whether medial temporal lobe magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) structures predict performance in episodic memory differently across ethnic groups. His clinical interests include identifying the overlapping neuropathological features and clinical symptoms between individuals with repetitive head injuries and Alzheimer’s disease. He is currently working on his master’s thesis titled “The Relationship Between Memory-related Structures and Memory Performance in Diverse Populations in the 1Florida ADRC.”
Publications
Asken, B. M., Bauer, R.M., Houck, Z. M., Moreno, C.C., DeKosky, S. T., Jaffee, M. S., Smith, G. E, Guenther, R. T., Clugston, J.R. (under review). Concussion biomarkers assessed from serum in collegiate sports (BASICS): Part 1- Normative and reliability metrics. Neurology
Asken, B. M., Bauer, R.M., Moreno, C.C., Houck, Z. M., DeKosky, S. T., Jaffee, M. S., Smith, G. E, Guenther, R. T., Clugston, J.R. (under review). Concussion BASICS: Part 2 – Baseline associations with brain trauma history and clinical measures. Neurology
Moreno, C. C., & Medina, L. D. The neuropsychological profiles of gay men and lesbian women: A systematic PRISMA review. (in preparation)
Graves, L. V., Moreno, C. C., Seewald, M., Holden, H. M., Van Etten, E. J., Uttarwar, V., McDonald, C. R., Delano-Wood, L., Bondi, M.W., Woods, S. P., & Delis, D. C., & Gilbert, P. E. (2017). Effects of Age and Gender on Recall and Recognition Discriminability. Archives of clinical neuropsychology: the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, 1. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acx024.
Seewald, P. M., De Jesus, S. Y., Graves, L. V., Moreno, C. C., Mattson, S. N., & Gilbert, P. E. (2017). Age-related differences on a new test of temporal order memory for everyday events. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2017.1298716
Book Chapters
Gaynor, L. S., Moreno, C. C., Bauer, R. M. (in preparation). Episodic and Semantic Memory Disorders. Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia. Springer Science & Business Media.
Honors and Awards
Hispanic Neuropsychology Society 2017 Conference Sponsorship Award – June 2017
2017 Stephanie Nicole Ross Foundation (SNRF) Graduate Scholarship – June 2017
SDSU Outstanding College of Sciences Graduating Student Award – May 2016
SDSU Outstanding Graduating Senior in Psychology Award – May 2016
2nd Annual Betty Joe Crawford Memorial Mentoring Award – April 2016
SDSU Student Research Symposium Provost’s Award for Research – March 2016
SDSU Delbert F. Harrison Veterans Endowed Scholarship – December 2015
SDSU Veterans Scholarship – December 2015
California State University Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention – June 2015
CUDCP Outstanding Research Poster Award – January 2015
Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP) Diversifying Clinical Psychology Event
Dean’s List, SDSU – Spring 2014 and Fall 2015
SDSU Jack McGrory Marine Veterans Scholarship (2x) – Fall 2013 and Spring 2014
Psi Chi International Honor Society, SDSU – Fall 2013
Funding
McKnight Doctoral Fellowship funded by the Florida Education Fund – Fall 2016 – Fall 2021
UF Graduate Student Council (GSC) Travel Grant – December 2017
Office of Graduate Diversity Initiatives (OGDI) Doctoral Travel Grant – June 2017
UF GSC Travel Grant – June 2017
OGDI Doctoral Travel Grant – January 2017
Association of Neuropsychology Students in Training (ANST) Travel Grant – December 2016
UF Board of Education (BOE) Summer Fellowship – Summer 2016
Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) program funded by National Institute of General Medical Sciences – June 2014 – June 2016
Gerontechnology Summer Undergraduate Research (GSUR) funded by National Institute of Aging – Summer 2015
SACNAS Travel Grant – August 2015
Society Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Teaching Experience
University | Course | Date |
San Diego State University | Developmental Psychology | Spring 2014 |
Professional Memberships
American Psychological Association (APA), Division 40
UF Chapter of the ANST
American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN)
North Central Florida Chapter of SfN