Research

Hayden Ventresca joined the lab as a research assistant in January 2019. She earned her BS in Communication Sciences in Disorders and has conducted research on facial expressions and affect in Autism Spectrum Disorder. She is pursuing a career in clinical psychology and is interested in research on...

Karen Chenausky is a postdoc in the Speech and Feeding Disorders Lab, under the direction of Dr. Jordan Green. She also has appointments at Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston University, and Harvard Medical School. Prior to coming to the SFDL, Karen worked as a speech scientist at Speech...

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 Associate 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...

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...