A.M. Barrett, MD, of Kessler Foundation Joins Brain Injury Medicine Milestone Project
West Orange, NJ. A.M. Barrett, MD, has been invited to join the Brain Injury Medicine Milestone Project, a joint initiative of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the American Board of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology. Dr. Barrett will serve on the Milestone project’s Working Group, which will develop a subspecialty-specific system of competency –based learning and assessment for brain injury. The Working Group’s chair is Gerard Francisco, MD.
Dr. Barrett, a cognitive neurologist and clinical researcher, is director of Stroke Rehabilitation Research at Kessler Foundation. She is also chief of Neurorehabilitation Program Innovation at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation, co-leader of the Kessler Institute Stroke Rehabilitation Program, and Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School. Her clinical and research activities focus on how knowledge of brain-behavior relationships can improve treatments for hidden neurological disabilities.