Dr. Kramer earned his doctorate in psychology at Baylor University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Martinez VA hospital. Dr. Kramer is board certified in clinical neuropsychology and served on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology.

Dr. Kramer is a Clinical Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurology and the Director of the Memory and Aging Center Neuropsychology program.

Dr. Kramer has been extensively involved in studying the cognitive changes associated with brain disorders for the past two decades. He has co-authored widely used neuropsychological measures of memory and executive functioning. Much of his work has been devoted to identifying the different ways in which neurodegenerative diseases affect memory and other abilities and in utilizing these differences to improve differential diagnosis in clinic.

Presently, Dr. Kramer's active areas of research include studying the cognitive effects of cerebrovascular disease and frontotemporal dementia, identifying behavioral markers of pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease, understanding the underlying biological mechanisms of cognitive aging, and developing interventions that will optimize cognitive functioning as we age.