Dr. DeVaughn is a bilingual (English and German) Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and is licensed in the States of California. She earned her doctorate at Palo Alto University with a major in Neuropsychology. Her predoctoral internship with an emphasis on Geropsychology was at the Rocky Mountain Regional Medical VA center specializing in dementia care. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of New Mexico, with training in outpatient neuropsychological assessment of adults and children from a wide referral base including neurology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, and internal medicine.  

Dr. DeVaughn has a strong training background in the assessment and management of older adults and neurodegenerative disease. Her published research focused on memory patterns across neurodegenerative disease including Alzheimer’s disease, semantic dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and older adults with HIV.  In addition, Dr. DeVaughn served as a consultant for a level 4 Epilepsy Center. She is experienced in clinical brain fMRI studies for lateralization of language dominance in epilepsy patients and intra-operative language and motor mapping in tumor patients undergoing awake brain surgery. Dr. DeVaughn also provides clinical interventions at an Acute Rehabilitation Setting to patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, autoimmune conditions, and patients who underwent DBS.