Who Are We?

CogScreen, LLC is committed to the development and publication of high stakes cognitive testing software to support aviation psychology, clinical trials, the airline industry, fitness testing, and academic research. We work with a team of cognitive scientists, pharmaceutical researchers, academics, engineers, and software developers to provide reliable and valid tools for computer-based cognitive assessment.

Our History

30 years ago, work was initiated to develop CogScreen-Aeromedical Edition, a computer-administered and scored cognitive screening instrument. The instrument was originally designed for the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to rapidly assess deficits or changes in attention, immediate and short term memory, visual perceptual functions, sequencing functions, logical problem solving, calculation skills, reaction time, simultaneous information processing abilities, and executive functions. We have continued to update and revise CogScreen to improve timing resolution, add normative data, improve useability, and to implement technological advances.

Our Founder

Gary G. Kay is the developer and publisher of CogScreen. From 1985-1998, Dr. Kay served as the Director of the Neuropsychology Division of the Georgetown University School of Medicine Department of Neurology. In this capacity Dr. Kay was actively engaged in teaching, clinical service, and research. His research activities focused on development of computerized methods for assessing higher cortical functions, and investigation of the neuropsychological sequelae of HIV infection, head injury, fibromyalgia, diabetes, eosinophilia myalgia syndrome, alcoholism, and normal aging. Dr. Kay has served as the Principal Investigator on single and multi-center clinical drug trials investigating the effects of medications on cognition, mood, and psychomotor performance. In 1998 Dr. Kay established the Washington Neuropsychological Institute, a consulting firm that carried out contract research and educational programs for the pharmaceutical industry and for federal agencies. In 2006 Dr. Kay joined colleagues to form Cognitive Research Corporation, a full-service contract research organization (www.cogres.com).

Dr. Kay received his Ph.D. in psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Program) at the University of Memphis (formerly Memphis State University). He completed his psychology internship at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He is board certified by the American Board of Assessment Psychology and the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology and is a member of the International Neuropsychological Society and the American Psychological Association. He is an Associate Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association and was awarded the 2022 Henry L Taylor Award of the Aerospace Human Factors Association, the 2022 Air Marshall Subroto Mukerjee Memorial Award, and the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Kay has been an invited speaker at professional meetings across the United States and around the world. He has presented to the Insitute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, testified to U.S. Congressional committees, and serves as a consultant to numerous governmental, corporate, and medical organizations. Dr. Kay is co-editor of the book, Aeromedical Psychology¹. In addition he has written several book chapters and authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles.

1. Kennedy, C. H., & Kay, G. G. (Eds.). (2013). Aeromedical Psychology
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