Ann completed her Ph.D in neuropsychology in 1990 at the then University of Natal and registered as a Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) the same year. She completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 1991/92 in neuropsychology at the University. Ann has worked as a Clinical and Neuropsychologist for over 30 years and been based at Entabeni Hospital, Durban, since 1994 where the focus of her work is neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation. During this time she has also been an expert in the field (neuropsychology) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Zululand and the Free State, and Guest Lecturer at the Universities of Limpopo and Zimbabwe.  

 

Ann was Secretary-General of the International Union of Psychological Science for a decade and their Main Representative (Psychology) to the World Health Organization (WHO). She also served on WHO’s International Advisory Group for the Revision of the International Classification of Diseases - Tenth Revision (ICD-10). She is a Past President of the International Neuropsychological Society, the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), and the South African Clinical Neuropsychological Association, Treasurer of the Pan-African Psychology Union, and a Member of the International Science Council's National Governing Council of South African. Ann served on the 2015 Neuropsychology Task Team of the HPCSA tasked with finalising education, training and registration criteria for Neuropsychologists in South Africa, and was appointed to their Neuropsychology Review Panel in 2020. She registered as a Neuropsychologist with the HPCSA when the neuropsychology register was populated in 2020. Ann was Editor of the International Platform of the International Journal of Psychology and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society for a decade.