Faculty Members & Collaborators
Awarded to CBR Faculty in Alignment with CBR's Mission
Faculty Publications in 2025
What is Bilingual Aphasia? Bilingual aphasia occurs when a person who speaks two languages develops aphasia, an acquired language disorder commonly caused by stroke. How Bilingual Aphasia is Different Cases of bilingual and multilingual aphasia differ from monolingual aphasia due to the interaction of multiple languages in the brain. Decades of research have indicated […]
April 10–11, 2026 The inaugural MedAI Hackathon successfully brought together over 230 registrants across the Boston University community, bridging the Charles River Campus and the Medical Campus. The event marked an exciting achievement for convergent research at BU, as participants collaborated in cross-disciplinary teams to develop AI powered solutions for real-world challenges in healthcare and […]
The Center for Brain Recovery’s Michelle Stransky and Jacquelyn Nardelli were awarded internal pilot funding by the BU Center for Health Data Science to examine outpatient speech-language pathology (SLP) services among youth. In schools, speech-language therapists are required to show that a student’s learning is negatively impacted by their communication disability (CD), causing youth to […]
Mike Esterman Associate Professor; Principal Investigator, National Center for PTSD - VA Boston Healthcare System esterman@bu.edu Profile Dr. Esterman is an Associate Professor at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Core Faculty for the Center for Brain Recovery, and a Principal Investigator for the National Center for PTSD - VA Boston Healthcare System. […]
Dr. Swathi Kiran, founding director of the Center for Brain Recovery, was recently welcomed on the Neurorehab Resources and Insights podcast to speak with Drs. Jyutika Mehta and Marie McNeely about language recovery following stroke and traumatic brain injury. In this episode, titled "Finding Your Voice Again Through Speech Therapy with Dr. Kiran and Patrick Prock", […]
Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) faculty member Dr. Terry Ellis will be the Lead Investigator on a clinical research study awarded $2 million in grant funding from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. This study will assess the impact of MedRhythms’ MOVIVE (MR-005) on gait, mobility, and cognitive responses for people with Parkinson’s disease. The […]
Congratulations, Dr. Michael Scimeca! Michael Scimeca PhD mscimeca@bu.edu Profile Dr. Scimeca successfully defended his dissertation on January 7th, 2026, completing his PhD at Boston University's Sargent College in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences. Throughout his doctoral studies, Scimeca was mentored by Dr. Swathi Kiran, director of the Boston University Center […]
