… alumni, and faculty since 2011 have run the Boston Marathon, raising over $150,000 to support the MGH Institute. While each of the runners have had their own reasons … of Miami with a degree in exercise physiology. On the back deck of her father’s house, sitting with her father whose speaking abilities had declined to the point … “I went home that night and researched until four in the morning and learned how they work with aphasia patients. And I remember thinking, ‘This is it.’ I knew I …