Nora Barrett

Nora Barrett graduated from the Program in Occupational Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis in 1997. She has been a practicing occupational therapist since 1998 and a certified hand therapist since 2006. She spent her early career as an inpatient therapist at rehabilitation centers, acute care hospitals and burn units in Boston, MA and Washington, DC before focusing in outpatient hand therapy in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD and Bend, OR. Nora joined the Hand Therapy Team at the University of Virginia Physicians Group in 2021 where she works in the Hand Center and in an outpatient hand therapy practice. She received her Wound Care Certification in 2020 and is an active member of the American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) and Affiliate Board Director for the the American Association for Hand Surgery (AAHS). Nora authored the Tissue Healing and Wound Care Chapter in the 4th edition of Cooper’s Fundamentals of Hand Therapy textbook and the Wounds Chapter in the 3rd edition of ASHT’s Clinical Assessment & Recommendations, and co-authored the Wound Classification and Management Chapter in the 7th edition of Rehabilitation of the Hand and Upper Extremity textbook and the Physiology of Wound Healing & Burns Chapter in the 4th Edition of ASHT’s Test Prep for the CHT exam. She lectures routinely in wound care, burn therapy, trauma and peripheral nerve injury for ASHT, AAHS and various universities across the country.