Michael McCrea, PhD, ABPP

Professor; Director, Brain Injury Research Program

Locations

Neurosurgery
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Education

BA, Psychology & Sociology, Loras College, Dubuque, IA, 1988
MS, Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 1991
PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, 1994
Predoctoral Internship, Clinical Psychology/ Neuropsychology, Vanderbilt University Medical School, Nashville, TN, 1993-1994
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Clinical Neuropsychology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1994-1996

Biography

Dr. Michael McCrea is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist. He is currently Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology, and Director of Brain Injury Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. McCrea earned his doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, then completed his internship training in neuropsychology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University Medical School.

He is a past President of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN). Dr. McCrea has been an active researcher in the neurosciences, with numerous scientific publications, book chapters, and national and international lectures on the topic of traumatic brain injury. He authored the text Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Postconcussion Syndrome: The New Evidence Base for Diagnosis and Treatment published by Oxford University Press. He is a member of the United States Department of Defense Health Board External Advisory Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury advising the Office of the Secretary of Defense on management and research of military related traumatic brain injury.

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Research Interests

The acute clinical and neurophysiological effects of traumatic brain injury in civilians, athletes and military personnel.

Frequency of Primary Neck Pain in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury/Concussion Patients.

(King JA, McCrea MA, Nelson LD.) Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2020 Jan;101(1):89-94 PMID: 31493383 PMCID: PMC6930963 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85073018882 09/08/2019
Resting-State fMRI Metrics in Acute Sport-Related Concussion and Their Association with Clinical Recovery: A Study from the NCAA-DOD CARE Consortium.

(Meier TB, Giraldo-Chica M, España LY, Mayer AR, Harezlak J, Nencka AS, Wang Y, Koch KM, Wu YC, Saykin AJ, Giza CC, Goldman J, DiFiori JP, Guskiewicz KM, Mihalik JP, Brooks A, Broglio SP, McAllister T, McCrea MA.) J Neurotrauma. 2020 Jan 01;37(1):152-162 PMID: 31407610 PMCID: PMC6921290 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85076896953 08/14/2019
King-Devick Test Reliability in National Collegiate Athletic Association Athletes: A National Collegiate Athletic Association-Department of Defense Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Report.

(Breedlove KM, Ortega JD, Kaminski TW, Harmon KG, Schmidt JD, Kontos AP, Clugston JR, Chrisman SPD, McCrea MA, McAllister TW, Broglio SP, Buckley TA.) J Athl Train. 2019 Dec;54(12):1241-1246 PMID: 31618072 PMCID: PMC6922566 10/17/2019
Relationship Between the King-Devick Test and Commonly Used Concussion Tests at Baseline.

(Clugston JR, Houck ZM, Asken BM, Boone JK, Kontos AP, Buckley TA, Schmidt JD, Chrisman SPD, Hoffman NL, Harmon KG, Kaminski TW, Collins MW, McAllister TW, McCrea MA, Broglio SP, Ortega JD.) J Athl Train. 2019 Dec;54(12):1247-1253 PMID: 31584854 PMCID: PMC6922559 10/05/2019
Word-reading ability as a hold test in cognitively normal young adults with history of concussion and repetitive head impact exposure: A CARE Consortium Study.

(Asken BM, Houck ZM, Clugston JR, Larrabee GJ, Broglio SP, McCrea MA, McAllister TW, Bauer RM, CARE Consortium Investigators.) Clin Neuropsychol. 2019 Nov 07:1-18 PMID: 31698991 11/09/2019
Academic aptitude mediates the relationship between socioeconomic status and race in predicting ImPACT scores in college athletes.

(Houck ZM, Asken BM, Bauer RM, Caccese JB, Buckley TA, McCrea MA, McAllister TW, Broglio SP, Clugston JR, Care,Consortium Investigators.) Clin Neuropsychol. 2019 Sep 24:1-19 PMID: 31549576 09/25/2019
Quantifying Activity Levels After Sport-Related Concussion Using Actigraph and Mobile (mHealth) Technologies.

(Huber DL, Thomas DG, Danduran M, Meier TB, McCrea MA, Nelson LD.) J Athl Train. 2019 Sep;54(9):929-938 PMID: 31411898 PMCID: PMC6795103 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85072992585 08/15/2019
Methodology and Implementation of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) for Early Post-concussion Rehabilitation: The Active Rehab Study.

(Register-Mihalik JK, Guskiewicz KM, Marshall SW, McCulloch KL, Mihalik JP, Mrazik M, Murphy I, Naidu D, Ranapurwala SI, Schneider K, Gildner P, McCrea M, Active Rehab Study Consortium Investigators.) Front Neurol. 2019;10:1176 PMID: 31781021 PMCID: PMC6856221 11/30/2019
Longitudinal Reproducibility of MR Perfusion Using 3D Pseudocontinuous Arterial Spin Labeling With Hadamard-Encoded Multiple Postlabeling Delays.

(Cohen AD, Agarwal M, Jagra AS, Nencka AS, Meier TB, Lebel RM, McCrea MA, Wang Y.) J Magn Reson Imaging. 2019 Nov 30 PMID: 31785062 12/01/2019
Functional Status Examination Yields Higher Measurement Precision of Functional Limitations after Traumatic Injury than the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended: A Preliminary Study.

(Nelson LD, Brett BL, Magnus BE, Balsis S, McCrea MA, Manley GT, Temkin N, Dikmen S.) J Neurotrauma. 2019 Nov 13 PMID: 31663425 10/31/2019
Management of Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Synthesis of Practice Guidelines.

(Silverberg ND, Iaccarino MA, Panenka WJ, Iverson GL, McCulloch KL, Dams-O'Connor K, Reed N, McCrea M, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group Mild TBI Task Force.) Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2019 Oct 23 PMID: 31654620 10/28/2019
Effect of Routine Sport Participation on Short-Term Clinical Neurological Outcomes: A Comparison of Non-Contact, Contact, and Collision Sport Athletes.

(Eckner JT, Wang J, Nelson LD, Bancroft R, Pohorence M, He X, Broglio SP, Giza CC, Guskiewicz KM, Kutcher JS, McCrea M.) Sports Med. 2019 Oct 21 PMID: 31637659 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074638945 10/23/2019

Michael McCrea, PhD, ABPP