S. GREGORY HIPSKIND, MD PhD -
Neurology
and Behavioral Medicine
Dr. Hipskind graduated from the University of
Notre Dame in 1969 and subsequently received his medical degree, with a PhD
in Neurophysiology, from St. Louis University in 1978. He served as
president of his graduating class and was the recipient of the Alpha Omega
Alpha Research Award. He completed residencies in Neurology at the
University of California, San Diego, and in Family Medicine at the
University of Colorado, where he served as Chief Resident. Certified by the
American Board of Family Practice in 1981, Dr. Hipskind practiced as a
board-certified family physician, including obstetrics, in Bellingham,
Washington for twenty-one years. In a twelve-year period of exclusive focus
in Family Medicine, he delivered over 600 babies. He was elected a Fellow of
the American Academy of Family Physicians. In his tenure as president of the
Whatcom County Medical Society, he helped to restore the local Interfaith
Health Clinic for low income and uninsured patients. While serving as a
member of the Board of Trustees for the Washington State Medical
Association, he developed the Doctorcare Program, a physician supported
program for the low income elderly which became a model program throughout
every county in the State of Washington.
In the recent twelve years
of clinical practice, Dr. Hipskind has integrated brain SPECT imaging into
his neurobehavioral practice. As a licensed nuclear neurologist, Dr.
Hipskind has studied with one of the premier functional brain imaging
clinicians in the world, Ismael Mena, MD, Professor Emeritus of Neurology
and Radiology at UCLA-Harbor, helping to develop and refine state-of-the-art
brain imaging software. Dr. Hipskind has personally interpreted over 4,000
brain SPECT scans.
Dr. Hipskind is nationally recognized as a
leading expert in demonstrating brain SPECT imaging’s role in the evaluation
of traumatic and toxic/anoxic brain injuries such as carbon monoxide
poisoning. He recently published “Recent Advances in Brain SPECT Imaging
after Carbon Monoxide Poisoning” in the 2008 medical textbook Carbon
Monoxide Poisoning, edited by David Penney, PhD. Dr. Hipskind engages
actively in consultations with clinicians and attorneys of patients with
brain injuries throughout the U.S. To date, he has been admitted as a
medical expert on the role of brain SPECT imaging in over seventy cases
involving head trauma.
As a clinical neuroscientist, Dr. Hipskind is
also well recognized as a specialist, since 1993, in the evaluation and
treatment of children, adolescents and adults with Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Dr. Hipskind’s work as a research associate
with the Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University has
contributed five scientific publications on the genetics of ADHD.
Dr.
Hipskind lectures extensively throughout the U.S. to numerous groups of
physicians, teachers and other professionals regarding brain SPECT imaging’s
role in the assessment and rehabilitation of brain injuries and the proper
diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. Additionally, he has developed educational
programs that teach clinicians how to effectively incorporate functional
brain imaging into their clinical practices. During his seven-year tenure as
Medical Director for the Genesis II drug and alcohol treatment program of
the Nooksack Indian nation, Dr. Hipskind utilized brain SPECT imaging to
refine the evaluation process within the dual-diagnosis treatment program.
Dr. Hipskind’s efforts have also been instrumental in establishing the use
of brain SPECT imaging at St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham, Washington.
Dr. Hipskind has appeared on Nightline with Tom Snyder, the Dr. Phil
Show, Evening Magazine, a Seattle-based public interest program, The Truth
about Drugs with Leeza Gibbons, a national documentary on the drugs’ effects
on teenage brain health, and numerous other television and radio programs.
