Dr. Schiltz Biography
Karen L. Schiltz, Ph.D., Clinical
Neuropsychologist
Associate Clinical Professor, UCLA Semel Institute and School of Medicine
Psy Lic #PSY9508
National Register for Health Service Providers #34955
Dr. Schiltz is a clinical psychologist, licensed in the state of California. From 1985-1987, she completed a post-doctoral residency in clinical neuropsychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Neuropsychology Department, UCLA School of Medicine, Neuropsychiatric Institute. She received her doctoral degree in psychology in 1984 from the APA accredited California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. Dr. Schiltz has conducted a private practice specializing in the clinical and forensic neuropsychological assessment of children, adolescents, and young adults since 1988. She has held an appointment as an associate clinical professor at the UCLA Medical Psychology Assessment Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior, since July of 2004. She also held an appointment as an assistant clinical professor within the same department from September 1993 to July of 2004. Dr. Schiltz has been a clinical supervisor within that department since August 1993 to the present time. Her faculty duties at UCLA include lecture presentations in the field of pediatric neuropsychological assessment and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Dr. Schiltz has written numerous articles on regulation and selective neurobehavioral disorders. In her 24 years of clinical work with children, adolescents, and young adults, she has emphasized the critical importance of integrating neuropsychological assessment findings to the application of accommodations to the classroom and home environments in a “user-friendly” manner. Dr. Schiltz supports a comprehensive team approach in the assessment and remediation of children who struggle with cognitive, learning, behavioral, social, and emotional difficulties. She sees a variety of students who are referred subsequent to or in the process of being diagnosed with a suspected learning disorder, attentional and concentrational compromises, suspected social communication disorder, memory disorder, neurotoxin exposure, scuba diving illnesses, seizure disorders, traumatic brain injury, cognitive changes due to medical illness or surgery, substance abuse disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, high cognitive ability profiles, among other neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions. Her experience has come from assessing children and working on intervention teams both in the hospital units as well as university and private practice based settings.
In addition to her private practice and academic supervisory duties, Dr. Schiltz has written, co-written, and/or presented over 81 papers, manuscripts, and publications. She is presently writing a parent primer along with co-authors, Amy Schonfeld, Ph.D. and Tara Niendam, Ph.D. with the delivery date scheduled for June of 2010.
Dr. Schiltz is married to her husband, Scott Mellor, who manages the private practice of Karen L. Schiltz, Ph.D. & Associates. They enjoy working with colleagues, Steven Castellon, Ph.D., Jessica Horsfall, Ph.D., and Claudia Kernan, Ph.D. within the practice. Dr. Schiltz is also the mother of an eleven year old girl, Grace, one “working” dog, Conor, two cats, Boston and Oliver, and three fish.
Dr. Schiltz's curriculum vitae is available upon request.