I was first inspired by clinical neuroscience and communication disorders as an undergraduate at Buffalo through Dr. Richard Salvi's psychoacoustics lectures. These demonstrated that in many ways, biophysical principles shape and constrain our sensory experiences. Furthermore, the lectures touching on hearing dysfunction demonstrated the fascinating interaction between inherently human processes, such as aging, and our sense organs.
From then on I became interested in research and worked under Dr. Richard Orhbach at Buffalo as an undergraduate, and Drs. Inge Anema and Dana Arthur at New Paltz as a graduate student while training as a speech-language pathologist (SLP). I also served as a tutor, teaching assistant, and lab instructor for several courses at New Paltz, conferring a love of pedagogy.
From 2016 to 2020 I served as an SLP and clinical supervisor at the Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury, a program-based facility partnered with the New York State Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Waiver Program focused on community reintegration for TBI and stroke survivors. There, I worked extensively with complex psychiatric, language, and cognitive disorders, such as akinetic mutism, conduction aphasia, and various disorders of consciousness.
I came to the Aphasia Research Laboratory in 2020 to instrumentalize my clinical knowledge and interrogate topics at the intersection of language and brain injury. I like to believe my research lies in Pasteur's Quadrant.
From then on I became interested in research and worked under Dr. Richard Orhbach at Buffalo as an undergraduate, and Drs. Inge Anema and Dana Arthur at New Paltz as a graduate student while training as a speech-language pathologist (SLP). I also served as a tutor, teaching assistant, and lab instructor for several courses at New Paltz, conferring a love of pedagogy.
From 2016 to 2020 I served as an SLP and clinical supervisor at the Northeast Center for Rehabilitation and Brain Injury, a program-based facility partnered with the New York State Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Waiver Program focused on community reintegration for TBI and stroke survivors. There, I worked extensively with complex psychiatric, language, and cognitive disorders, such as akinetic mutism, conduction aphasia, and various disorders of consciousness.
I came to the Aphasia Research Laboratory in 2020 to instrumentalize my clinical knowledge and interrogate topics at the intersection of language and brain injury. I like to believe my research lies in Pasteur's Quadrant.
