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Peii Chen, PhD (she/her/hers)

Senior Research Scientist
Kessler Foundation
West Orange, New Jersey, United States

Peii Chen, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at Kessler Foundation’s Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research, the Intellectual Property Liaison at Kessler Foundation, and a Research Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers University’s New Jersey Medical School. She was trained as an experimental cognitive psychologist in the Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Chen started out her postdoctoral career in 2007 and became a neurorehabilitation scientist with the focus on spatial cognition and its disorders after brain injury, especially stroke. Her career has been focused on the study of spatial neglect, its related disorders, and its related inter-personal consequences such as family caregivers' burden and stress. In 2017, she was awarded a Distinguished Switzer Research Fellowship by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). She is the lead developer of the Kessler Foundation Neglect Assessment Process (KF-NAP®), Prism Adaptation Treatment (KF-PAT®), and Spatial Re-training Therapy (KF-SRT®). The KF-NAP is a standardized method for detecting and measuring spatial neglect in real-life situations. The KF-PAT is a standardized protocol for delivering the evidence-based treatment for spatial neglect. The KF-SRT is a software program leveraging immersive virtual reality (VR) technology, designed to treat spatial neglect. Besides the KF-SRT, she is designing and developing new interventions for spatial neglect using other types of extended reality (XR) technology (XR includes VR, mixed reality, and augmented reality) combining with other technologies such as eye tracking. Dr. Chen advocates meaningful and effective knowledge translation via professional training, technology transfer, and research commercialization.

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