Associate Director Senior Research Scientist Director of the Language and Aphasia Laboratory Co-Director of Complex Action Analysis Laboratory Director of Research, MossRehab Aphasia Center

Dr. Schwartz’s areas of interest are:

• Neuropsychology research
• Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
• Cognitive Neuropsychology of everyday action and planning
• Language and Aphasia
• Augmentative and alternative communication devices

In addition to her work at MRRI, Dr. Schwartz has teaching appointments at Jefferson Medical College, Temple University School of Medicine, Temple University School of Communication and Theatre, Temple University, and LaSalle University School of Nursing.

Dr. Schwartz has received funding for her research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke (NINDS), the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR), the Department of Education/National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), the Albert Einstein Society, and MRRI Peer Review Committee.

She has an extensive list of published research. Her work has appeared in Cognition, Brain and Language, Psychological Review, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Aphasiology, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Journal of Memory and Language (in press). She has also written numerous book chapters.

Dr. Schwartz received a BA in Psychology from New York University. She earned her PhD in Psychology at University of Pennsylvania. She completed post doctoral training in Behavioral Neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

She has been the keynote speaker at conferences of organizations in the US and UK.