PEBT
Faculty for the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences
Executive Committee Faculty
Teresa J. Kimberley, PhD, PT, FAPTA
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Director of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Rehabilitation Sciences
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Director of the Brain Recovery Lab
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: To understand the pathophysiology of motor impairment and develop novel rehabilitation interventions for neurologic disorders, such as dystonia and stroke. Learn more about Teresa's work at the Brain Recovery Lab.
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Associate Director, PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Associate Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Senior Research Physical Therapist, Neurogenetics Team (led by Dr. Kathryn Swoboda)
Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI)
Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Interests: Physical therapy management of children with pediatric neurodegenerative conditions including spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD); motor outcome measures for pediatric neurogenerative diseases; clinical trials for neurogenerative diseases. Learn more about Elise's work at the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI).
Rawan AlHeresh, PhD, MScOT, OTR/L
- Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions - Director, Toward an All-Inclusive Jordan
Research Interests: Assessment of Patient-Reported Outcomes, Arthritis and rheumatology, Global health, community-based rehabilitation, measurement of function and participation, rehabilitation service delivery in low and middle-income countries. Learn more about Rawan's work at Toward an All Inclusive Jordan.
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Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Director
Brain Education and Mind Lab
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. Learn more about Joanna's work at the Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab.
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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.
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Executive Director of Research
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Health Disparities; Implementation Research to Address Health Disadvantage; Hypertension Treatment and Control; Obesity Disparities Research; Late-Stage (T4) Translation Research and Implementation Science; and Structural and Mechanistic Similarities in Biological Systems.
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Matina Souretis Horner Professor in Rehabilitation Sciences
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Director of the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Associate Provost for Research
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Faculty, Speech & Hearing Bioscience & Technology
Harvard Medical School
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. Learn more about Jordan's work at the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab.
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Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Director of the Speech and Language (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; dyslexia, developmental language disorder, speech sound disorders, improving assessments and creating language-based interventions for the classroom; interactions between working memory and word learning; translational and implementation science; and communicating science to a broad audience. Learn more about Tiffany's work at the Speech and Language (SAiL) Literacy Lab.
- Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Behavior science and behavior change; promoting activity, participation, and exercise; integrating behavioral, engineering, and rehabilitation sciences; disability; work disability; adults with chronic disabling musculoskeletal, rheumatological and neurological conditions; geriatrics; digital health.
Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLP
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Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
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
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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
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Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Jacques Mohr Chair
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: The needs of nursing home residents with advanced dementia and their family caregivers; nurses’ perceptions of end-of-life care in nursing homes; family caregivers’ perceptions of treatment decision making; the influence of nursing home culture on feeding decisions in advanced dementia; uncertainty among family caregivers of nursing home residents with dementia
Additional Faculty
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Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Co-director, Cognitive Neuroscience Group
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. Learn more about Yael's work at the Cognitive Neuroscience Group (CNG).
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Director
New England GREEC, Boston VA Healthcare System -
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
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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. Learn more about Paolo's work at the Motion Analysis Lab.
- Director, Neurosurgery Paralysis Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Interests: Neurophysiological predictors of outcomes following nerve injury and nerve transfer procedures. Restoring bladder function following sacral root injury with somatic to autonomic nerve transfers.
Irene S. Davis, PhD, PT, FACSM, FAPTA, FASB
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Professor Emerita, Department of Physical Therapy
University of Delaware -
Professor
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 gait 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
Maureen K. Dwyer, PhD, ATC
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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. Learn more about Maureen's work at the Kaplan Joint Center.
Research Interests: Evaluation of outcome of intervention techniques used in voice therapy; The effect of laryngeal manual therapy and SOVT exercises on voice quality and vocal tract discomfort in dysphonia; Occupational voice disorders; The impact of voice related coping strategies on treatment outcome; Machine learning algorithms for voice processing and how computation science can optimize treatment
- Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Examining participation after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, neurorehabilitation, patient reported outcomes, and ethical decision-making in clinical practice. Read more about Dr. Erler's research for her PhD.
- Assistant Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Longitudinal data analysis; mental illness stigma; relationships between psychosocial stressors, mental health, and quality of life
Felipe Fregni, MD, PhD
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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
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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
Douglas Gross, MPT, DPT, ScD, FAAOMPT, CPed
- Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Lower extremity biomechanics; Biomechanical risk factors for knee and hip osteoarthritis
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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.
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Co-Director, Written Expressive Language and Literacy Collaborative (WELL)
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
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. Learn more about Charles' work at the WELL Lab.
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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 healthy and dysarthric populations; facial and laryngeal nerve regeneration; and implantable neural prosthetic systems for facial and laryngeal reanimation after nerve palsy
Robert E. Hillman, PhD, CCC-SLP
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Founder and Former Director of the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Rehabilitation Sciences
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
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 Medical School -
Adjunct Professor – Communication Sciences and Disorders
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. Learn more about Robert's work at MGH Voice Center.
- Assistant Professor of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Health services research and health policy with a focus on primary care, behavioral health, and workforce issues
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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). Learn more about Brad's work at the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
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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. Learn more about Lisa's work at the Mongan Institute Health Policy Research Center.
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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. Learn more about Grant's work at the Sports Concussion Clinic and Home Base.
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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
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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 sciences.
Maninderjit (Mandy) Kaur, PT, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Dr. Kaur’s research is focused on understanding the motor delays in children with neuromotor disorders such as Down Syndrome (DS) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She is interested in examining the impact of motor delays on other domains of development such as cognitive, language, and social development of children. The ultimate goal of her research is to devise multi-system interventions which can impact the global development of children with DS and ASD. Further, her goal is to promote use of play-based assessments and interventions which are fun and inherently engaging for children.
- Interim Associate Provost
Interprofessional Education and Practice
MGH Institute of Heath Professions
- Director and Professor
Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation
MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Professor
Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Role of reflection in the development of health professionals along a novice-to-expert continuum, narrative as a vehicle for reflection, and models for interprofessional learning and development across academic, simulation, and clinical learning environments
- Director, Neurorecovery Clinic
Mass General Hospital
- Director
Laboratory for Translational Neurorecovery
Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery
Massachusetts General Hospital
- Faculty
MGH Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit
Department of Neurology, Mass General Hospital
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Instructor in Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Research Interests: Our multidisciplinary group of MGH and IHP neurologists, occupational/physical/and speech therapists, physiatrists, neuroengineers, and neuroscientists are focused together on (1) collecting and analyzing rehabilitation outcome measures for patients recovering from stroke and (2) engineering and deploying neurotechnology (transcranial magnetic stimulation, brain computer interfaces) to characterize and maximize neurorecovery. Learn more about David's work at the NeuroRecovery Clinic and the Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery.
- Director
Voice Science and Technology Laboratory,
the MGH Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation
- Assistant Professor in Surgery
Harvard Medical School
- Faculty Affiliate
Harvard Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology
- Assistant Adjunct Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Clinical voice and speech assessment; Wearable sensors for real-world voice monitoring; Novel voice and speech processing. Learn more about Daryush's work at the MGH Voice Center.
- Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Andy was a pre-doctoral trainee at the Center for Evidence-Based Practice in the Underserved at Columbia University School of Nursing and a co-investigator in the Health Information Technology Collaborative at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is currently a fellow and consultant for the Laboratory for Informatics Complexity and Organizational Study at Columbia University School of Nursing as an adjunct faculty advisor.
- Professor, Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Neurological rehabilitation of gait and balance in stroke and multiple sclerosis, cognitive-motor interactions and dual-task interference, factors influencing prioritization of attention during mobility-related activities and the association with falls, combining physical therapy and pharmacologic treatment for mobility in multiple sclerosis, identifying characteristics that differentiate responders and non-responders to neurorehabilitation.
Glenn Pransky, MD, MOccH, FACOEM
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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
Ralf W. Schlosser, PhD
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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. Learn more about Ralf's work at the Center for Communication Enhancement.
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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
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Professor and Doctoral Capstone Coordinator
Department of Occupational Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Health policy; disability policy (access, disability rights); health literacy
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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. Learn about Dr. Taylor's work at the Cardiovascular Research Lab.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Harvard Medical School -
Director, Spinal Cord Injury Division
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital -
Director, of INSPIRE Lab
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital -
Adjunct Associate Professor
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Diagnosis and treatment of neuromotor pathologies such as spinal cord injury and stroke; mechanisms of neural plasticity; neuromechanics of human movement; biofeedback technologies. Learn more about Randy's work at the INSPIRE Lab.
Sofia Vallila Rohter, PhD, CCC-SLP
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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. Learn more about Sofia's work at the Cognitive Neuroscience Group (CNG).
Catherine Schmidt, PT, DPT, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Cathy has dual research training in clinical and health services rehabilitation sciences. Cathy’s doctoral research involved identifying neuromuscular impairments associated with mobility limitations among community-dwelling older adults with lumbar spinal stenosis. Her postdoctoral research included using large data systems such as Medicare claims to evaluate the impact of physical therapy on the progression to surgery and subsequent health care utilization among beneficiaries with lumbar spinal stenosis. Cathy has an ongoing study evaluating the pattern of initial interventions and subsequent clinical and utilization outcomes such as pain and opioid use among Veterans with low back pain. Cathy received the CoHSTAR Pilot Funding Award in 2018 to support this work.
- Research Staff
Voice Science and Technology Laboratory,
the MGH Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation
- Instructor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
- Assistant Adjunct Professor
PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences Program
MGH Institute of Health Profession
Research Interests: Dr. Van Stan clinical research program hopes to improve the assessment and treatment of voice disorders through the use of cutting-edge technology (e.g., ambulatory voice monitoring and biofeedback, virtual environments, machine learning) and testing/developing clinical treatment theory. Learn more about Jarrad's work at the MGH Voice Center.
Richard B. Westrick, PT, DPT, DSc, SCS
- Deputy Chief, Military Performance Division
U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine - Adjunct Professor of Physical Therapy
MGH Institute of Health Professions
Research Interests: Military musculoskeletal injury prevention; return-to-duty decision making for military and tactical populations following injury; factors influencing injury reporting and healthcare seeking behaviors in military personnel. Learn more about Richard's work at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine.
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Amelia Peabody Professor of Nursing
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
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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
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Associate Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders
MGH Institute of Health Professions -
Co-Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Group
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. Learn more about Lauryn's work at the Cognitive Neuroscience Group (CNG).