Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Professor, Department of Pediatrics

kunin003@umn.edu
621-624-6931 — office
Preferred contact method: phone

Dr. Kunin-Batson is a pediatric neuropsychologist and an assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Clinical Neuroscience in the Department of Pediatrics. She received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Kenyon College in Gambier Ohio and attended Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School for graduate training in clinical psychology, where she received her M.S. degree in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in 2001. Dr. Kunin-Batson completed internship and fellowship training in pediatric psychology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and fellowship training in pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Kunin-Batson provides psychological consultation to cancer survivors and their families in the University's Long Term Follow-Up Clinic, and conducts neuropsychological evaluations of children, adolescents, and young adults to assess for potential late effects of cancer treatments on learning.

Research Interests

1. Neurocognitive late effects of cancer treatments
2. Psychosocial adjustment of children and families to cancer

Selected Publications

Perkins, J., Kunin-Batson, A., Youngren, N, Ness, K., Ulrich, K., Hansen, M., Petryk, A., Steinberger, J., Anderson, F., Baker, K. Long-term follow-up of children who underwent hematopoeitic cell transplant (HCT) for AML or ALL at less than three years of age. Pediatric Blood & Cancer. (in press)

Kazak, A.E. & Kunin-Batson, A. (2001). Psychological and integrative interventions in pediatric procedural pain. In A. Finley & P. McGrath (Eds.), Acute and Procedure Pain in Infants and Children. International Association for the Study of Pain: Seattle, WA.