Anna M. Barrett, MD is the Director of Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Research Center and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) and Neurology/Neurosciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School (UMDNJ-NJMS). Her clinical and research interests are in behavioral neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive neurorehabilitation. She is active with the American Academy of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology and Neural Repair and Rehabilitation sections, Executive Committee), the American Society of Neurorehabilition (Treasurer), and the International Neuropsychological Society. Dr. Barrett completed undergraduate work at Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, medical school training at New York University School of Medicine, neurology residency training at Columbia-Presbyterian/The Neurological Institute in New York, NY, and fellowship in Behavioral Neurology/Neuropsychology at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Barrett received the 2007 Norman Geschwind Prize award for outstanding research in the field of behavioral neurology, and has been the recipient of the Harold Brenner Pepinsky early career award for cognitive and behavioral science at Ohio State University, as well as the first International Neuropsychological Society early career award (2008). Dr. Barrett's research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for ten years, and her publications span all domains of post-stroke cognitive dysfunction. The emphasis of her program is on hidden disabilities of functional vision (visual-spatial problems). Other research studies concern acquired disorders of speech and language (aphasia) and memory disorders.