​Lester Butt, Ph.D., ABPP

Lester Butt, Ph.D., ABPP, is a rehabilitation psychologist at Craig Hospital. He received his doctoral training at The George Washington University (M.Phil. 1970 and Ph.D. 1973) in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Butt did his internship and post-doctoral fellowship within the Harvard Medical School hospital system, 1972-1974. Dr. Butt has worked in the field of rehabilitation psychology since beginning at Craig Hospital in 1977 and served as the director of psychology from 1987 to 2016. Dr. Butt is board certified and is a past president of the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology, a specialty within the American Board of Professional Psychology. Additionally, he is the three-time past president of the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers (AASCIPSW) and has served on their Board of Directors for ten years. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association divisions of Rehabilitation Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Trauma Psychology and has served as a panel member for the Consortium of Spinal Cord Medicine, Clinical Practice and Consumer Guidelines for Depression and Individuals with Ventilator Dependency. Dr. Butt received a National Institute of Health Mental Health Fellowship, 1968-1972 and is the recipient of the Clinical Performance and Essie Morgan Awards from AASCIPSW. In 2007, he was given the Lifetime Award of Practitioner Excellence by the American Psychological Association’s Division of Rehabilitation Psychology. He served on the Editorial Board of NeuroRehabilitation and served as the reviewer for multiple other publications.