Administrative Team
Board of Directors
Members
Professional Advisory Council
Sharon Antonucci, Ph.D., MS, CCC-SLP
Associate Professor Clinical Scholar; Director, Moss Rehab Aphasia Center
Brent Archer, PhD., CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist; Associate Professor; Director, AphasiaCHATLab; Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders; Bowling Green State University;
Ellen Bernstein-Ellis, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist; Clinic Director Aphasia Treatment Program; Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders; California State University, East Bay
Karen Copeland, MA, BC-ANCDS
Ascension St. John Medical Center, Tulsa, OK; Oklahoma State University Communication Sciences & Disorders Department
Eduardo Europa, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor Communicative Disorders & Sciences San Jose State University
Will Evans, PhD, CCC_SLP
Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
Mackenzie Fama, PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Director, Fama Aphasia Recovery Lab The George Washington University
Brooke Hallowell, PhD, CCC-SLP,FNAP, ASHA Honors
Professor and Dean Springfield College School of Health Sciences
Roy Hamilton, MD, MS, FANA, FAAN
Vice Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity, Penn Medicine; Director, Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (LCNS); Director, Penn Brain Science, Translation and Modulation Center; Professor of Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine
Brooke Hatfield, MS, CCC-SLP
Senior Director, Health Care Services American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Fabiane (Fabi) M. Hirsch Kruse, PhD, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist; Owner, Saguaro Center for Speech & Language, PLLC; Co-Founder – Friends of Aphasia/Aphasia Center of Tucson
Becky Khayum, MS, CCC-SLP
Co-Founder and Care Manager; Cognitive Concierge
Howard Kirshner, MD
Professor Emeritus, Neurology Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Denise McCall, MS, CCC-SLP
Founding Executive Director, SCALE Aphasia Center
Jodi Morgan, MS, CCC-SLP
Brooks Rehabilitation Aphasia Center Manager; Clinical Assistant Professor Jacksonville University
Janet Patterson, PhD, CCC-SLP
ASHA Fellow; Research Speech-Language Pathologist VA Northern California Health Care System
Carol C. Persad, PhD, abpp
Clinical Director of Psychiatry; Program Director, Psychiatry; Director, University Center for Language and Literacy
Paul R. Rao, PhD
ASHA President, 2011 ASHA Fellow, ASHA Honors 2021; Past Board Member, National Aphasia Association; Gateway Maryland & Recording Secretary, Appian Society
Megan Sutton, MS, CCC-SLP
Speech Language Pathologist; Co-Founder, Tactus Therapy
Tsagoyna Tanzman, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist; Author/Speaker; Certified Personal Life Coach; Master Practitioner of NLP
Peter E.Turkeltaub, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine; Director, Cognitive Recovery Lab; Director, Neuroscience of Language Training Program Georgetown University Medical Center; Director, Aphasia Clinic Medstar National Rehabilitation Network