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Dorothy Farrar Edwards

Professor

dfedwards@education.wisc.edu

(608) 262-7421

2176 Medical Sciences Center

1300 University Ave

Madison, WI 53706-1509

Farrar-Edwards, Dorothy

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I am a Professor in the School of Education with appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology at the School of Medicine and Public Health.

Education

  • PhD Experimental Psychology, Washington University, 1980
  • BA Psychology, Loyola University, 1972

Select Publications

  • Farrar-Edwards, D., Menon, R. S., Fokar, A., Gibbons, M. C., Wing, J. J., Sanchez, B., & Kidwell, C. S. (2013). Recruitment of Black Subjects for a Natural History Study of Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 24, 27-35.
  • Morrison, M. T., Giles, G. M., Ryan, J. D., Baum, C. M., Dromerick, A. W., Polatajko, H., & Farrar-Edwards, D. (2013). Validation of the Multiple Errands Test-. Revised: A Performance-Based Measure of Executive Function in People with Mild Verebrovascular Accidents. American Journal Of Occupational Therapy, 67, 460-468.
  • Tucker, F. M., Farrar-Edwards, D., Mathews, L., Baum, C. M., & Connors, L. T. (In Press). Modifying Health Outcome Measures for Persons with Aphasia. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 16.
  • Berg, C. R., Farrar-Edwards, D., & King, A. (2011). Neurocognitive performance on the Children’s Kitchen Task Assessment in children with Sickle Cell Disease and matched controls. Child Neuropsychology
  • Dromerick, A. W., Lang, C. E., Birkinmeier, R. L., Wagner, J. M., Miller, J. P., Videen, T. O., Powers, W. J., Wolf, S. L., & Farrar-Edwards, D. (2009). Very Early Constraint Induced Movement during Stroke Rehabilitation (VECTORS):A Single Center RCT. Neurology, 73, 195-201.

Select Presentations

  • Farrar-Edwards, D. Neurocognitive Contributions to Function after Stroke. presented at the World Stroke Congress, Hyderabad India.
  • Benedict, R., Larson, E., Auserdau, K., Farrar-Edwards, D., & Chen, R. (2012, November). Update on Current Occupational Therapy Research: Autism: Caregiving, Sensory Features & Feeding; Cerebral Palsy: Interventions, Child & Caregiver Outcomes; Stroke: Disparities & Treatment. Conference presented at the Annual Conference of the Wisconsin Occupational Therapy Association, Middleton, WI.
  • Mackey, J., Wing, J. J., Sobotka, I., Menon, R. S., Burgess, R. B., Gibbons, M. C., Shara, N., Trouth, A. J., Farrar-Edwards, D., & KIdwell, C. S. (2012, February). High Rate of Silent Ischemic Lesions at 1 Year in Patients with Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Conference presented at the International Stroke Conference 2012, New Orleans LA.
  • Farrar-Edwards, D., Smith, K., Menon, R. S., Tiffany, D., Gibbons, M. C., Shara, N., German, L., Wing, J. J., Trouth, A. J., & Kidwell, C. S. (2012, February). Poor Neurocognitive Outcomes in a Longitudinal Study of Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Conference presented at the International Stroke Conference 2012, New Orleans LA.
  • KIdwell, C. S., Menon, R., Sobotka, I., German, L. S., Fernadez, S., Gibbons, M. C., Wing, J. J., Farrar-Edwards, D., & Burgess, R. B. (2012, February). Rapid Microbleed Formation in the First Year Following Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Conference presented at the International Stroke Conference 2012, New Orleans LA.
  • Farrar-Edwards, D., Menon, R. S., Gibbons, M. C., Wing, J. J., Sanchez, B. S., Fokar, A., Shara, N., & Kidwell, C. S. (2011, February). High Rate of Enrollment of Black Subjects in a Genetic Substudy of an Intracerebral Hemorrhage Natural History Study. Conference presented at the International Stroke Conference, Los Angeles CA.
  • Menon, R., Burgess, R. E., Gibbons, M. C., Fokar, A., Shara, N., Trouth, A. J., Farrar-Edwards, D., & Kidwell, C. S. (2011, February). Interval Development of New Ischemic Lesions within 30 Days of Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Conference presented at the International Stroke Conference, Los Angeles CA.
  • Burgess, R. E., Menon, R., Gibbons, M. C., Fokar, A., Shara, N., Farrar-Edwards, D., & Kidwell, C. S. (2011, February). Presence of DWI Lesions is the Strongest Predictor of Poor 1 Year Outcome in Patients with Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Conference presented at the International Stroke Conference, Los Angeles CA.
  • Farrar-Edwards, D. (2010, July). Multilevel Community Based Interventions to Decrease Barriers to Acute Stroke Treatment in and Underserved Urban Population. Conference presented at the Systematic Neuroscience Research Program Health Disparities Conference, San Juan Puerto Rico.
  • Farrar-Edwards, D. (2010, May). Home Based Diagnosis and Care Management of African American Elders with Dementia. presented at the Annual Parish Nurse Training, St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee WI.