Rate My Professor Greta Wilkening

Greta Wilkening, PsyD, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics-Neurology and Director of Neuropsychology in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus. She earned her PsyD from the University of Colorado Denver in 1980, MEd from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1974, and BA from Carleton College in 1973, followed by a fellowship in Neuropsychology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1982. Board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology and Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychology since 1985, she has conducted neuropsychological assessments of pediatric patients since 1980. Dr. Wilkening directs the Pediatric Neuropsychology service within Neurology and the Neurodevelopmental Research Core. She holds additional appointments as Professor in the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes Center and Pediatric Neurology General Operations at the Colorado School of Public Health. Her primary clinical interests encompass the evaluation and follow-up of children with epilepsy and brain neoplasms.

Dr. Wilkening's research examines cognitive functions in pediatric populations affected by chronic conditions, including involvement in the NIH-funded Children's Absence Epilepsy study, Biliary Atresia Research Consortium for longitudinal cognitive assessments, long-term follow-up of liver transplant patients, studies on cognitive side effects of antiepileptic drugs and other medications, and the Urea Cycle Disorder Consortium Longitudinal Study, where she serves as lead neuropsychologist. Select publications include Shapiro ALB et al., Altered brain function and structure in youth-onset type 2 diabetes (European Journal of Endocrinology, 2025); Shapiro ALB et al., Diabetes complications and cognitive function in young adults with youth-onset type 2 diabetes (Journal of Diabetes Research, 2023); Shapiro ALB et al., In Utero Exposure to Maternal Overweight or Obesity is Associated with Altered Offspring Brain Function in Middle Childhood (Obesity, 2020); Shapiro ALB et al., Childhood Metabolic Biomarkers Are Associated with Performance on Cognitive Tasks in Young Children: The Healthy Start Study (Journal of Pediatrics, 2019); and Wolfe KR et al., Neuropsychological Screening in Pediatric Multidisciplinary Clinics: Group Characteristics and Predictive Utility (Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2022). Her work advances understanding of neurodevelopmental impacts in these disorders.