Lori J. Bernstein

Dr. Bernstein earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University in New York City and has been a licensed clinical neuropsychologist in Ontario since 2002.  She worked in several Toronto area hospitals and in private practice before starting at Princess Margaret Hospital in 2007.

She also is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.  Her clinical practice includes neuropsychological assessment as well as individual and group psycho-educational interventions designed to teach patients self-management skills to better cope with cognitive dysfunction during and following cancer diagnosis and treatment.  Her research interests focus on better understanding and characterizing the cognitive changes that cancer and/or its treatment has on patients, both in the short and long term, and ways to help patients improve functioning.  She is the primary investigator on several operating grants, including ones from the Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.  Her research and clinical interests are not exclusive to breast cancer, however, and with colleagues at Princess Margaret Hospital she is involved in projects that work with other cancer populations, such as people with head and neck cancer, gynecological cancer, sarcoma, brain tumors, and adult survivors of childhood cancer.