Brianna Boadu

I am currently serving as the Administrative Assistant for CBR. I am a junior at Sargent College, majoring in Human Physiology and following a pre-dental track. Born and raised in New York City, I am passionate about pursuing a career in orthodontics and look forward to making a positive impact in the field. LinkedIn Professional […]

Antreas Charidimou

Biography Antreas Charidimou is an Asst. Prof of neurology at Boston University Medical Center (MA, USA). He studied medicine at the University of Athens (Athens, Greece), did his PhD on applied clinical neuroimaging of cerebral small vessel disease and intracerebral haemorrhage at the University College London, Queen Square, Institute of Neurology (London, UK), and completed […]

Swathi Kiran

Founding Director, Center for Brain Recovery. Director of Aphasia Research Laboratory. James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor of Neurorehabilitation Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences. Research interests: Neuroscience, Brain Plasticity, Language Recovery, Rehabilitation, Bilingualism About Swathi Kiran is the Founding Director of the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR), Director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, […]

Emerson Kropp

About I am an undergraduate student in Boston University Sargent College with a major in Health Science and minor in Human Physiology. I plan to attend medical school after I graduate and hope to pursue a career in clinical neurology. I am very interested in using neuroimaging to elucidate the mechanisms behind post-stroke impairments, which […]

Meredith MacEachern

Research Interests: Cognitive-Communication Rehabilitation in adults Meredith MacEachern, MS, CCC-SLP is the Program Director for Boston University’s Intensive Cognitive Communication Rehabilitation Program at Boston University’s Center for Brain Recovery. Previously she served as the Graduate Student Supervisor at ICCR. She has a Master’s in Speech Language Pathology from MGH Institute of Health Professions. In addition, […]

Kalli Miller

About Kalli Miller is the Marketing & Events Specialist at the Boston University Center for Brain Recovery. Kalli specializes in the marketing, communications, and event management of the Center to further support the mission of advancing research. Before joining BU, Kalli has a background in marketing, graphic design, event planning, and creative project management roles […]

Anna Serrichio

About Anna joined the Center for Brain Recovery in June 2025 after completing her PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Penn State University. Her doctoral research examined how different forms of memory and attention relate to language outcomes in people with aphasia, using resting-state fMRI. As a postdoctoral researcher, she aims to investigate the […]

Erie Shivers

About Erie Shivers is currently a research assistant at the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) working on the Neuroscience of the Everyday World (NEW) functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) project along with a project involving computational modeling of bilinguals with aphasia and/or dementia. Erie graduated from Boston University in May of 2024 with a Bachelor […]

Zach Silverman

About Zach graduated from Wake Forest University in May of 2026 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Exercise Science and a minor in Chemistry. At the Center for Brain Recovery, he is building the Registry for Brain Health, Behavior, and Trajectories and assisting with cross-project recruitment and outreach. His research examines the […]