Anthony Stringer

## **Introduction**

Dr. Anthony Stringer is a 66-year-old Clinical Neuropsychologist. He is the first African American Board Certified Neuropsychologist to gain certification in the United States of America. He became certified in 2004, becoming the first African American Board Certified Neuropsychologist in the United States, and the seventh psychologist in the state of Georgia. He is currently a professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Division of Neuropsychology and Behavioral Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is a former president of American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN) and he was the first African American in this role. Dr. Stringer's achievements add to contributions made by others in the African American Psychology and the birth of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi). Dr. Stringer co-developed the African Neuropsychological Battery. This battery provides a culturally and linguistically appropriate assessment tool for use in selected African countries.

Dr. Stringer is working to introduce the field of Clinical neuropsychology to Democratic Republic of Congo due to the high rate of neuropsychological disease in the country. He is also helping in developing a curriculum to train neuropsychologists in Rwanda, and using developed battery of tests to help with African Refugees who sustained brain and emotional trauma as a result of torture and violence in the countries they fled. The ultimate goal is to accurately measure cognitive impairment in these patients and develop effective rehabilitation for them.

## **Education**

Dr. Stringer earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 , followed by a Master of arts degree in 1981 and a PhD in 1984. All degrees were obtained from Wayne State University. He completed his Post Doctoral Neuropsychology Fellowship from the University of Florida in 1984.

## **Membership**

Dr. Stringer is a member of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 40/Society for Clinical Neuropsychology), Georgia Psychological Association, International Neuropsychological Society, National Academy of Neuropsychology and Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation. Dr. Stringer chairs both the Relevance 2050 initiative for the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology and the justice and Equity Task Force for the international Neuropsychological Society.

## **Research**

Dr. Stringer specializes in Cognitive rehabilitation, so most of his research focuses in this area. His research addresses traumatic brain injury, stroke, epilepsy, and other neurological conditions.

## Award

Emory University has an established teaching award called "The Dr. Anthony Y Stringer " Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award was established to honor Dr. Anthony Y. Stringer.

He was a finalist for the Health Care Innovator/Researcher award in the 2019 Health Care Heroes Awards sponsored by Atlanta Business Chronicle

## Publications

* Hampstead, B. M., Gillis, M. M., & **Stringer, A.Y.** (2014).  Cognitive rehabilitation of memory for mild cognitive impairment: A methodological review and model for future research.  *Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 20,* 131-151.
* Gess, J.L., Denham, M., Pennell, P.B., Gross, R.E., & **Stringer, A.Y.** (2014).  Remediation of a category-specific naming deficit following left temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. Applied Neuropsychology:Adult, 21, 231-237.
* Huang, W., Bliwise, D.L., Johnson, T.M. II, Long, Q, Kutner, N., & **Stringer, A.Y.** (2013).  Correlates of persistent sleep complaints after traumatic brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 23, 698-714. *Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 20,*
* Hampstead, B.M., **Stringer, A.Y.**, Stilla, R.F., Giddens, M, & Sathian, K. (2012).  Mnemonic strategy training partially restores hippocampal activity in patients with mild cognitive impairment.  Hippocampus, 12*,* 1652-1658.
* Hampstead, B.M., Sathian, K., Phillips, P.A., Amaraneni, A., Dalaune, W.R., & **Stringer, A.Y.** (2012).  Mnemonic strategy training improves memory for object location associations in both healthy elderly and patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment: A randomized, single-blind study.  Neuropsychology*,* 26. 385-399.*Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 20,*
* Puskas, J.D., **Stringer, A.Y.**, Hwang, S.N., Hatfield, B., Smith, A.S., Kilgo, P.D., & Williams, W.H. (2011).  Neurocognitive and neuroanatomic changes after off-pump versus on-pump CABG: Long-term follow-up of a randomized trial.  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 141*,* 1116-1127.
* Hampstead, B.M., **Stringer, A.Y.**, Stilla, R.F., Amaraneni, A., & Sathian, K.  (2011).  Where did I put that?  Patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment demonstrate widespread reductions in activity during the encoding of ecologically relevant object-location associations.  Neuropsychologia, 49*,* 2349-2361.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2011).  Ecologically-oriented neurorehabilitation of memory: Robustness of outcome across diagnosis and severity.  Brain Injury, 25*,* 169-178.
* Hampstead, B. M., **Stringer, A.Y.**, Stilla, R. F., Deshpande, G., Hu, X., Moore, A.B., & Sathian, K. (2011).  Activation and effective connectivity changes following explicit-memory training for face-name pairs in patients with mild cognitive impairment: A pilot study.  Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 25, 210-222.
* Hampstead, B.M., Lacey, S., Ali, S., Phillips, P.A., **Stringer, A.Y.**, & Sathian, K. (2010).  Use of complex three-dimensional objects to assess visuospatial memory in healthy individuals and patients with unilateral amygdalohippocampectomy.  Epilepsy and Behavior, 18*,* 54-60.

## Clinical Appointments

Emory clinic; Medical staff (1986).

Emory University Hospital: Scientific staff (1986).

Wesley Woods Center of Emory University: Medical staff (1998).

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta; Medical staff (2001).

Atlanta Falcon: Neuropsychology Consultant (2013)

## **Author**

Author of :A guide to Adult Neuropsychology Diagnosis and the lead editor of pathways to prominence in Neuropsychology (1996)

## **Book Chapters**

* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Physiatry.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 3) (pp. 1943). New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Oliver Zangwill.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 4) (pp. 2741-2743).  New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Occupational therapy.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 3) (pp. 1808-1809).  New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Neuropsychology.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 3) (pp. 1769-1772).  New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Hécaen, Henry.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 2) (pp. 1218-1220).  New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Babcock, Harriet.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan, (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 1) (pp. 337-338).  New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Teuber, Hans-Lukas.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 4) (pp. 2501-2503).  New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Clinical neuropsychology.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 1) (pp. 591-594). Springer-Verlag, New York.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Behaviorism.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol 1) (pp. 382-383).  New York: Springer-Verlag.
* **Stringer, A.Y.** (2010).  Christensen, Anne-Lise.  In J. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, and B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of clinical neuropsychology (vol. 1) (pp. 565-567).  New York: Springer-Verlag.

## **References**

https://www.rehabmed.emory.edu/faculty.bios/stringer-anthony.html

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/emory-doctor-is-the-first-black-neuropsychologist-in-the-country/484010342#:~:text=With%20only%205%2C000%20neuropsychologists%20in,Board%20of%20American%20Clinical%20Neuropsychology.

https://www.emory.edu/EMORY\_REPORT/erarchive/2005/January/January%2031/profile.htm

https://soblackneuro.org/about-us/

https://www.nanonline.org/docs/ResearchandPublications/NANBulletin/Spring%202020%20Bulletin.pdf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQW0Y2jGrLA

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2019/05/17/innovator-finalist-dr-anthony-stringer-works-to.html