Research

Isabel Fitzpatrick is Research Study Coordinator in the Cognitive Neuroscience Group at MGH Institute of Health Professions. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, Fitzpatrick spent a year in the Fulbright Program in Spain teaching English to elementary school students and doing...

Dr. Rania Karim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at MGH Institute of Health Professions. Rania joined the Physical Therapy faculty in 2019. Prior to working at the Institute, Rania was an Associate Professor at Marshall University in Huntington, WV, where she helped...

Mandy Kaur is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at MGH Institute of Health Professions. Dr. Kaur completed her physical therapy education in India, and soon after moved to the US for higher education. She completed her...

Michael Iwama, PhD, MSc, BScOT, is Dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy. Dean Iwama previously was professor and chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy at Augusta University (formerly the Medical College of...

Marziye Eshghi, PhD, is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab . Eshghi obtained her PhD in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, in 2018. She also holds a PhD in Linguistics with specific focus on language...

Noor Al Dahhan, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab, directed by Dr. Joanna Christodoulou. Noor completed her doctoral research at Queen's University in 2018, which focused on examining the neural and cognitive processes that underlie typical and...

Rouzana Komesidou is a postdoctoral fellow and a project director on a longitudinal study funded by the NIH on children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and Dyslexia, a collaboration among Tiffany Hogan, PhD, CCC-SLP, at the SAiL Literacy Lab at the MGH Institute, Julie Wolter, PhD, CCC-...

Hannah Rowe is Doctoral Student Research Fellow in the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab (SFDL) under the direction of Dr. Jordan Green. Her research in the SFDL is part of her studies as a student in the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program at MGH Institute of Health Professions. Prior to...

Over the past 10 years, Ana has been studying and working in the cognitive field, with training on neuromodulation from the Neuromodulation Center at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and completion of the Principles and Practice on Clinical Research (PPCR) one-year course...