Jeffrey B. Titus, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Titus is an assistant professor of neurology at Dell Medical School and serves as section chief of neuropsychology for Dell Children’s Medical Group. His clinical specialty is in pediatric epilepsy, and he practices as a pediatric neuropsychologist through Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. Prior to coming to Austin in 2011, Titus was an assistant professor of clinical neurology at Washington University School of Medicine and program lead of neuropsychology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Throughout his career, Titus has been devoted to a scientist-practitioner model that focuses on the integration of scientific study with clinical care delivery. Much of his research has investigated emotional and behavioral concerns in pediatric epilepsy, with particular emphasis on cognitive and disease-specific features that may reflect brain-based predispositions for psychopathology. With health-related quality of life (HRQOL) as an end-point variable, Titus has also sought to quantify the relative contribution of cognitive, emotional, socioeconomic and family coping factors on health outcomes in epilepsy above and beyond seizure variables. He is working to combine this information with medical factors to develop metrics for early identification of risk so that prevention and intervention efforts can be implemented. He is also developing methods to integrate real-time measurement of risk factors into interdisciplinary clinics to monitor the social and economic impact of pediatric epilepsy and promote health and wellness initiatives at the primary, secondary and tertiary care levels.

Titus is a fellow of the American Epilepsy Society, and his recent research has been published in Epilepsy and Behavior, the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, the Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy, the Journal of Attention Disorders, and the Journal of Child Neurology. He serves as a clinical supervisor for doctoral-level neuropsychology students at The University of Texas at Austin, and he is active in the strategic planning and organization of clinical neuroscience programs at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas.

He completed his bachelor’s degree in biology at The University of Texas at Austin and his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch.