Dr. Binder is a Professor of Neurology and Biophysics at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), where he directs the Aphasia Research Program and the Intensive Program of Aphasia Therapy. Dr. Binder obtained his medical degree at the University of Nebraska in 1986. He completed neurology residency and fellowship training at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital’s Neurological Institute of New York in Manhattan and joined the MCW faculty in 1992. In addition to his clinical focus on the treatment of stroke and aphasia, he is a leading neuroscience researcher with continuous grant funding from the NIH for nearly 3 decades. His lab studies language networks in the brain using functional MRI and other neuroimaging methods, with a focus on developing clinical applications for presurgical brain mapping and aphasia recovery, including non-invasive brain stimulation approaches. He has published over 200 scientific articles and reviews and serves on multiple journal editorial boards. He received the 2019 Distinguished Career Award from the Society for the Neurobiology of Language.