Jack M. Fletcher, PhD
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor
Associate Vice President for Research Administration
Associate Chair, Department of Psychology
University of Houston
Dr. Jack M. Fletcher is Research Professor, Department of Psychology, at the University of Houston, where he served as an Associate Professor (1985-1989) and the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor (2006-2021). A board-certified child neuropsychologist, he has completed research on many issues related to neurodevelopmental disorders (learning disabilities and pediatric brain injury), including definition and classification, neurobiological correlates, and intervention.
The author of over 400 papers and three books, Dr. Fletcher directs a NICHD-funded national learning disability research center and has been funded on program projects on spina bifida and math disabilities in addition to numerous investigator-initiated grants from NIH and NSF. He was the recipient of the Samuel T. Orton award in 2003 and the Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecture in 2022 from the International Dyslexia Association, a co-recipient of the Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association in 2006, and a past president of the International Neuropsychological Society in 2009.