Meredith T. Albert, Ph. D., MA

Meredith Albert, Ph.D., received her undergraduate degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York, and earned both her master’s and doctorate degree from the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado. Albert completed her predoctoral internship at Children’s Hospital Colorado and her postdoctoral fellowship at La Rabida Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She has been a member of the craniofacial team at Shriners Children’s Chicago for a decade after working in pediatric psychology at another large rehabilitation hospital in Chicago. She also has an appointment as an assistant clinical professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Albert’s clinical training and professional experience includes treating patients in the areas of cleft/craniofacial care, pediatric psychology, trauma, rehabilitation and neuropsychological assessment. She is a member of the multidisciplinary craniofacial team and supervises the training of graduate-level, pre-doctoral students. In addition to advocacy work, she has also worked on several multisite studies with colleagues from across the country to better understand and improve the functioning of patients diagnosed with craniofacial conditions.