Faculty

Dr. Len Lecci has been a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington since 1996. His area of expertise is assessment, and he is responsible for the assessment training sequence of all of the PhD students in the doctoral program. He is the director of clinical services at a MARS Memory-Health Network, which is a clinic focused on early detection of memory loss.  Since 2016, Dr. Lecci has been working in the area of concussion assessment. He has obtained grant funding and published numerous papers on new approaches to concussion assessment as well as papers validating new measures. Dr. Lecci has established a research consortium of universities and medical facilities to improve and evaluate objective concussion assessment tools. Dr. Lecci was recently awarded a grant to help improve the representativeness of the norms used in concussion measures and to determine whether recovery trajectories vary as a function of race or sex.