Amy Barr, PhD

Amy E. Barr, Ph.D.

Dr. Shivani Saible, Ph.D., ABPP. — Physicians in St. Petersburg, FL
Dr. Barr is originally from Maryland. She received her undergraduate degree from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She completed her masters and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology-Berkeley/Alameda. Her postdoctoral internship was at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Medical Psychology. During her postdoctoral year, Dr. Barr received specialized training in neuropsychology, consultation liaison medicine, and memory diagnostics. She continued training at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, completing a NIH/NIA grant-funded two-year training fellowship in dementias of aging.  

Dr. Barr has been in private practice in Sarasota since March 1998 and provided neuropsychological services to Central Neurology since December 2018. She has been affiliated with local hospitals, has acted in an elected leadership role in the Department of Psychiatry at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and has provided consultative services to the Sarasota Memorial Hospital Memory Disorder Clinic. Prior to opening her practice, Dr. Barr had worked in both clinical and administrative positions in hospital systems and skilled nursing facilities.
Gregory C. Scott, M.D. — Physicians in St. Petersburg, FL
Dr. Ryan Hafner, M.D. joined Central Neurology in 2022 and is a board certified physician in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (also referred to as a “physiatrist”). He provides long-term comprehensive neurological disability care for adult patients affected by diagnoses such as stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, focal and cervical dystonia, neuropathies, painful muscle spasms, contractures, and others. His main focus is to improve quality of life and maximize physical function such as the ability to walk or transfer, hold an item, perform activities of daily living such as dressing and hygiene, tolerate wheelchair positioning, and more. Everything he does is directed by the patient’s overall goals and he utilizes a holistic and well-balanced combination of therapy, equipment, bracing and splinting, oral medications, nerve and muscle injections, spinal infusion pumps, and referrals to surgery as needed to achieve these goals.
Dr. Hafner received his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology & Certificate in Business Administration from Creighton University in Omaha, NE where he graduated summa cum laude. He then went on to receive his medical degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE. He completed an internship in Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI followed by top-10 nationally ranked residency training in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Temple University Hospital / MossRehab in Philadelphia, PA. During his time in residency, he was elected as Chief Resident and received the “Resident of the Year” award at graduation. He then finished further specialized training with a one-year fellowship in Interventional Spasticity Management at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.

Dr. Hafner’s whole family lives in St. Petersburg and he is very happy to be able to reunite with them for fun in the sun when he is outside of the clinic.
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