Professor Emeritus
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Anthony Y. Stringer, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN is Professor Emeritus of Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University and is the recently retired Director of the Emory Division of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology. Dr. Stringer earned his doctorate at Wayne State University and completed his internship at Lafayette Clinic in Detroit. He completed his fellowship at the University of Florida and became the first African American to be board certified in neuropsychology in the United States. During his 35-year career at Emory, Dr. Stringer created neuropsychology externship, internship, and fellowship programs which have become nationally recognized for excellence in neuropsychology training. In 2018, he was awarded the Paul Satz International Neuropsychological Society Career Mentoring Award in “recognition of mentoring and teaching activities that have made a profound impact on careers of students in the field of neuropsychology.” Dr. Stringer has served as President of the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology and is currently Chair of the Justice and Equity Committee of the International Neuropsychology Society and is President-elect of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology. Dr. Stringer has authored or edited books on neuropsychological diagnosis and the history of neuropsychology, and has published over 90 articles, abstracts, and book chapters from his research on neuropsychological syndromes and cognitive rehabilitation outcome. He and his colleagues at Emory created the Ecologically Oriented Neurorehabilitation of Memory and Executive Function Programs which are now in use in rehabilitation settings throughout the United States. He has been actively engaged in introducing and expanding neuropsychological services in sub-Saharan Africa through his training of psychologists in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and his co-authorship of the African Neuropsychology Battery. For his research and clinical program development, Dr. Stringer was named a Fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology in 2010 and of the American Psychological Association (Division 40) in 2013.
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