Celebrating Sargent

Sargent Announces Travis M. Roy Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences

Sargent College received a $2.5 million gift to establish the Travis M. Roy Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences and to support an ongoing partnership with the Travis Roy Foundation.

This gift from an anonymous group of donors will immediately fund the Travis M. Roy Professorship at Sargent College. It will also provide, at Roy’s direction, infrastructure for the Travis Roy Foundation as well as outreach support for the shared objectives of the University and the Foundation. Read more

Aphasia Community Group Celebrates 25th Anniversary

In 1990, speech-language pathologist Jerome Kaplan launched a series of monthly meetings at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to offer support to those suffering from aphasia, a language disorder that often results from stroke, traumatic brain injury, or neurological diseases.

Kaplan’s Aphasia Community Group moved to BU, and expanded into Sargent’s Aphasia Resource Center (ARC), which offers educational, social, and clinical resources. In addition to facilitating weekly topic-specific groups, Kaplan still leads the free monthly meetings for up to 100 people.

Thanks to the group, says Swathi Kiran, a professor of speech, language & hearing sciences and the center’s research director, “the ARC is now one of the strongest community resource centers in the country, and it fulfills three important missions: providing exceptional services for patients, training the next generation of clinicians, and serving as an important test bed for clinical research in aphasia.”

To date, the group has held more than 300 sessions and served approximately 12,000 people. The Community Group celebrated its 25th anniversary this June.

Top Awards

Sudha Arunachalam, an assistant professor of speech, language & hearing sciences, received the 2015 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship Award.

Sara Brown, a clinical associate professor of athletic training, received the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award.

Jennifer Gottlieb, a research assistant professor of occupational therapy, received a Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2015–2016 academic year.

Julie Starr, a clinical associate professor of physical therapy & athletic training, received the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) Linda Crane Memorial Lecture Award, which honors an APTA member who has demonstrated excellence in research, clinical, or academic practice.

Cara Stepp, an assistant professor of speech, language & hearing sciences, was named a Hariri Institute 2014 Junior Faculty Fellow and is the first professor at Sargent to receive a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation.

New Faculty and Promotions

New Faculty

Laura Driscoll, clinical assistant professor, department of physical therapy & athletic training

Bria Dunham, clinical assistant professor, department of health sciences

Anne Escher, clinical assistant professor, department of occupational therapy

Daniel Fulford, assistant professor, department of occupational therapy

Mary Beth Holmes, clinical assistant professor, department of physical therapy & athletic training

Robin Newman, clinical assistant professor, department of occupational therapy

Erin Riley, clinical assistant professor, department of physical therapy & athletic training

Basilis Zikopoulos, assistant professor, department of health sciences

Promotions

Elizabeth Hoover, clinical associate professor, department of speech, language & hearing sciences and clinical director of the Aphasia Resource Center

Eileen O’Keefe, clinical professor, department of health sciences and director of the program in health science