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Faculty for the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences
- Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Co-director, Cognitive Neuroscience Group (CNG)
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Developmental language disorders; typical and a typical leaning; developmental changes and individual differences in feedback-based learning; electrophysiological markers of feedback processing; event related potentials (ERPs) in the study of information processing
- Director
New England GREEC, Boston VA Healthcare System - Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Physiatrist
Spaulding Cambridge Outpatient Center - Adjunct Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Geriatric rehabilitation; mobility problems; disability; secondary prevention; exercise physiology; musculoskeletal disorders in older adults
- Associate Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Director, Motion Analysis Laboratory
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Adjunct Assistant Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Rehabilitation technology; wearable sensors and system to track motor impairments; robot assisted rehabilitation; biomechanics
- Associate Professor
Department of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Clinical Associate
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Outpatient Clinic
Research Interests: The development of critical thinking skills in physical therapy students; clinical decision making; teaching and learning; curriculum development; direct access
- Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Director
Brain Education and Mind Team
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Adjunct Lecturer on Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education - Research Affiliate
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Research Affiliate
Speech-Language Pathology Department
Mass General Hospital
Research Interests: Developmental disabilities including reading disabilities (e.g., dyslexia), math disabilities, ADHD - assessment, diagnosis, intervention; brain and behavior correlates underlying development and disorders; pediatric and adult neuroimaging (MRI); conducting research at the intersection of research and practice; reading fluency; reading abilities in patient populations; quality of life; cognitive skills and reading
- Professor and Chair
Department of Occupational Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Co-Chair
Stroke Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group
American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
Research Interests: Dr. Connor’s research focuses on understanding the neural, behavioral, and psychosocial predictors of recovery from stroke and community participation in people with and without aphasia. The goal of her work is to create quantitative models of post-stroke community reintegration to guide the delivery of evidence-based, targeted interventions.
- Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: HIV/AIDS; biobehavioral and psychosocial aspects; caring; feeling safe; depression and grief in advanced non-small cell lung cancer; health literacy; interprofessional collaboration
Irene S. Davis, PhD, PT, FAPTA, FACSM
- Professor Emerita, Department of Physical Therapy
University of Delaware - Director, Spaulding National Running Center
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Examination of relationships between lower extremity structure; mechanics and injury in both walking and running gaits; retraining of faulty gate mechanics through real-time feedback to reduce injury risk; mobile monitoring of gait in community environments using wearable technology; effect of footwear on gait and injury risk; focused interested in patellofemoral pain achilles tendinopathy; plantar fasciitis and bone stress injuries
- Director of Research, Kaplan Joint Center
Department of Orthopedics, Newton Wellesley Hospital - Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Orthopedics
Mass General Hospital - Adjunct Assistant Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Identification of mechanistic contributors to the development and progression of osteoarthritis; longitudinal assessment of the natural course of cartilage degeneration in hip arthroscopy patients; objective assessment of muscle function in patients with hip disorders; development of treatment programs to prolong the health of the native hip
- Associate Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Visiting Scientist
Department of Engineering
Brown University - Research Health Science Specialist
Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology
Providence VA Medical Center
Research Interests: Rehabilitation robotics, specifically the design, implementation, and dissemination of robotic therapy trials and adults and children with upper limb paresis; task oriented training and self management strategies to improve upper limb function after stroke; brain computer interface and assistive technology research for persons with tetraplegia
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Associate Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School - Director, Spaulding Neuromodulation Center
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Mass General Hospital - Director, Clinical Research Collaborative Learning Training Program
Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (PPCR)
ECPE, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - Adjunct Assistant Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Neuroplasticity; neuromodulation; chronic pain; motor recovery; non-invasive brain stimulation; TDCS; TMS
- Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Director of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital - Adjunct Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Neuropsychology; neurorehabilitation; traumatic brain injury; disorder of consciousness; clinical outcome assessment; functional neuroimaging; approaches to evidence-based medicine
Janice Goodman, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC
- Professor of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Faculty Nurse Scientist, Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research
Massachusetts General Hospital - Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
Research Interests: Women’s mental health; mindfulness based interventions; interventions for preventing and treating perinatal depression and anxiety and the associated negative effects of the mother-infant relationship and child development
- Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Director of the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Speech assessment and therapy; computer-aided diagnosis of speech and swallowing disorders; speech and swallowing biomechanics; speech development; motor speech disorders including dysarthia and apraxia; bulbar motor impairments due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; facial reanimation training following face transplantation; non-invasive brain stimulation
- Dugald C. Jackson Professor
MIT - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Dr. Guttag's current research centers on the application of advanced computational techniques to medicine. Current projects include prediction of adverse medical events, prediction of response to therapies, non-invasive monitoring and diagnostic tools, and tele-medicine. He has also done research, published, and lectured in the areas of sports analytics, financial analytics, software defined radios, software engineering, mechanical theorem proving, and hardware verification.
- Clinical Supervisor, Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Early cognitive and linguistic predictors of literacy skill development in different languages; written language (writing) intervention for children with dyslexia and related language learning difficulties
- Assistant Professor in Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health - Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School - Biostatistician, Partners MS Center
Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Biostatistician, Biostatistics Center
Massachusetts General Hospital - Adjunct Instructor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Disease modeling for multiple sclerosis
- Associate Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School - Adjunct Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Faculty Member, Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology
Program of the Harvard Division of Medical Sciences - Research Scientist, Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation
Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Interests: Human voice and speech physiology; development of improved voice prosthetic equipment; creation of a speech recognition platform that uses speech-related muscle signals as an input (instead of a microphone) for health and dysarthric populations; facial and laryngeal nerve regeneration; and implantable neural prosthetic systems for facial and laryngeal reanimation after nerve palsy
- Director of Research Programs (including the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences Program)
MGH Institute of Health Professions and - Co-Director and Research Director, Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation
Massachusetts General Hospital - Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School - Faculty Member, Speech & Hearing Bioscience & Technology
Program of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Prevention diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders; vocal hyper function; physiology and acoustics of normal and disordered voice production; objective assessment and vocal function (including ambulatory monitoring and biofeedback); evaluation of methods (medical surgical and behavioral) used to treat voice disorders; laryngectomy speech rehabilitation
- Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Director of the SAiL Literacy Lab
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Genetic, neurological, and behavioral links between oral and written language development with a focus on co-morbid speech, language and literacy disorders; improving assessments and creating language-based interventions for the classroom; interactions between working memory and word learning; and underlying deficits associated with apraxia of speech and specific language impairment
- John B. Penney Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School - Alzheimer's Unit Director
Massachusetts General Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease - Director
Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Understanding the neuropathophysiologies and the genetic factors that underlie dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia)
- Professor, Department of Medicine
Harvard Medical School - Director of Mongan Institute for Health Policy
Massachusetts General Hospital - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Improving the health and health care of persons with disabilities
- Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Director, Neuropsychology Outcome Assessment Laboratory
Center for Health and Rehabilitation Research
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network - Director, MassGeneral Hospital for Children Sports Concussion Program
Massachusetts General Hospital - Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Program
Home Base, A Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Program - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Outcome from mild traumatic brain injury (across the lifespan, in athletes, civilians, military service members, and veterans); improving the methodology for assessing and identifying mild cognitive impairment
- Professor, PhD Program in Rehabilitation Sciences
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: The measurement, epidemiology, and prevention of disability; the development and dissemination of contemporary outcome measurement instruments to evaluate the quality of health care
Diane U. Jette, PT, DSc, FAPTA
- Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Associate Chair of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Exploring the relationships among processes and outcomes in the delivery of rehabilitation services and their interactions with patients’ performance and participation in daily life activities
- Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Medical speech-language pathology and the effects of communication and swallowing impairment of quality of health and life; teaching and scholarly enterprise in higher education; interprofessional education in the health science
Margaret Kjelgaard, PhD, CCC-SLP
- Associate Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Research Scientist
MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Research Interests: Autism spectrum disorders; developmental disorders; testing the predictive abilities in children with ASD in sensory, language, and learning; testing prosodic processing and production in children with ASD as well as in neuro-typical development; prosodic acoustic analysis of emotions in speech
- Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Biomechanical analysis of human movement; musculoskeletal causes of cancer related fatigue; movement control patterns associated with hip fracture
- Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Communication Sciences & Disorders Department Chair
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Treatment and assessment of speech sound disorders; promotion of evidence based practice/ practice based evidence; exposing the use of pseudoscience in speech-language pathology practice
- Professor of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Dementia; family care giving; end of life care and palliative care; stigma; qualitative methods
Deborah Navedo, PhD, ADRN, PNP, CNE
- Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Director of the Health Professions Education Program
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Effective leadership and faculty development to serve the education reform within and across the health professions; innovations and efficacy around faculty of mixed professions learning to teach together as part of the solution to the current siloed educational systems; debriefing and reflective judgment development
Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLP
- Associate Director, PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Associate Chair Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Research Assistant Professor of Neurology
Boston University School of Medicine
Research Interests: Aphasia and adult neurogenic communication disorders; Aphasia Center Clinical Program at MGH IHP; Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) for People with aphasia; nonverbal cognitive disorders; neurodegenerative disorders affecting language and cognition
Patrice Nicholas, DNSC, MPH, RN, ANP, FAAN
- Professor of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Director of Global Health Nursing and Senior Nurse Scientist
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Global Health Equity
Center for Nursing Excellence
Research Interests: HIV symptom management, quality of life, adherence to therapy; climate change and health consequences; global health issues; trafficking and health consequences
- Associate Professor
Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
Bouvé College
Northeastern University - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: The acquisition and impairment of speech prosody (the melody of speech) in healthy speakers and those with neuromotor disorders; the design of speech enhancement and learning technologies that leverage the residual and/or developing capabilities of users
Leslie Portney, DPT, PhD, FAPTA
- Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Dean of School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Educational outcomes; measurement of functional outcomes in rehabilitation; risk factors for falls in the elderly
Glenn Pransky, MD, MOccH, FACOEM
- Director, Center for Disability Research
Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety - Associate Professor
University of Massachusetts Medical School - Visiting Scientist
Harvard School of Public Health - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Disability prevention and prognosis of work-related musculoskeletal disorders; work disability in older workers; enhancing the return-to-work process
- Professor, Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
Bouvé College
Northeastern University - Professor, School Psychology Program
Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology
Northeastern University - Director of Clinical Research, Center for Communication Enhancement
Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Disorders
Boston Children's Hospital - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Efficacy of interventions in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) particularly as they relate to the role of speech output and different graphic symbol sets for individuals with developmental disabilities; methodological issues in conducting efficacy research, including research design (in particular, single-subject experimental designs) and research synthesis (i.e., meta-analysis); the effects of synthetic speech output and visual display feedback on spelling in children with autism.
- Director, Center for Communication Enhancement
Boston Children's Hospital - Associate Scientist, Otolaryngology
Boston Children’s Hospital - Associate Professor, Otology and Laryngology
Harvard Medical School - Adjunct Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Diagnosis and treatment of complex communication disorders including application of augmentative and alternative communication systems and procedures; development of intervention strategies for autism through application of visual supports and technology
Diane L. Smith, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
- Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Research Consultant
Great Plains ADA Center
Research Interests: Health policy; diabetes policy (access, disability rights); health literacy
- Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Director of Cardiovascular Research Laboratory
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital - Adjunct Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Cardiovascular autonomic physiology; exercise physiology; physiology of aging and the impact of spinal cord injury; traumatic brain injury; sleep disorders of physiological function
- Associate Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Physical Therapist, Clinical Associate, Outpatient Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Interests: Physical therapy management of children with pediatrics neurodegenerative conditions including spinal muscular atrophy and Duchene muscular dystrophy; motor outcome measures for pediatric neurodegenerative diseases; clinical trials for neurodegenerative diseases
- Disability Research Scientist
Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety - Adjunct Assistant Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Disability prevention & rehabilitation of patients with musculoskeletal disorders; injuries in compensable settings; evaluation of functional and work capacity; development and evaluation of clinical measures
Sofia Vallila Rohter, PhD, CCC-SLP
- Assistant Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Co-Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Group
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Research Affiliate, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Research Interests: Diagnosis and treatment of aphasia across the continuum of care; nonverbal/nonlinguistic cognitive ability in aphasia; executive functions in aphasia; category learning; strategy development; neural organization of language; neural substrates of learning
- Amelia Peabody Professor of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Director, Fatigue Research Lab
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Molecular origins of fatigue (CTRF), one of the most common side effects of cancer treatment and one that has considerable effects on quality of life, physical functioning, and overall health in cancer survivors; prevention and management of CTRF
- Professor and Chair, Earle P. and Ida S. Charlton
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School - Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs, Research and Education
Spaulding Rehabilitation Network - Chief, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Massachusetts General Hospital - Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Understand and develop novel prognostic techniques for TBI; define clinical prognostic variables in TBI; understand factors that may impact the recovery process; define biological-based differences in the recovery process from TBI; establish biomarkers that can be employed in the acute and post-acute phases of recovery from TBI; focus on interdisciplinary clinical research involving clinicians and investigators from many fields; understand the role of novel pharmacotherapeutics in post-acute and rehabilitation time periods; understand both the harmful and facilitative aspects of medications frequently prescribed to persons with TBI; help to establish concerns with the chronic administration of some atypical antipsychotics to those with TBI; understand the role of dopamintergic and cholinergic systems after TBI and are presently pursuing novel laser based treatments
- Associate Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: The cognitive and neurophysiologic basis of aphasia; prosodic and rhythmic processing abilities involved in speech planning; executive functions and learning in people with traumatic brain injury