Dr. Kristine Lundgren is a speech-language pathologist who has worked for many years in the field of communicative disorders and rehabilitation. Dr. Lundgren received her Sc.D. degree in Communication Disorders from Boston University, where she also received her Master’s degree in Communication Disorders. Dr. Lundgren served as the Administrative/Clinical Director of the Harold Goodglass Aphasia Research Center at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology (SLP) at BUSM and Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Further, she has received NIH funding for her stoke and traumatic brain injury treatment studies. Dr. Lundgren also serves as both a Board member on the Massachusetts Brain Injury Association and as an active member of the American Stroke Association?s Northeast Rehabilitation and Recovery Committee.

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Janet Whitney, Ph.D., is a speech pathologist, living in Cleveland, Ohio. She retired last year from the Miami, Florida VA Medical Center. She received her master’s degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.

Her research and clinical interests have always been in neurologically-based communication disorders. She currently has a private practice and does some private consulting.

She is also having fun in two new volunteer jobs: teaching ESL (English as a second language) in the Cleveland Schools program for refugees from conflict zones around the world and as a Volunteer Legal Guardian.

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Roberta J. Elman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BC/ANCDS is the President/CEO and Founder of the Aphasia Center of California. The Center is an independent, nonprofit organization currently providing conversational, reading/writing, caregiver, and recreational groups for more than ninety individuals with aphasia and their families in the Northern California Bay Area.

Prior to beginning the Aphasia Center of California, Dr. Elman was Co-Director of Rehabilitation at an Outpatient Medical Rehabilitation Center. She also served as Director of the Speech-Language Department. Dr. Elman has more than 25 years of experience in the assessment and treatment of neurogenic communication disorders. She is the author of numerous professional publications and is the editor of a book for Plural Publishing entitled Group Treatment of Neurogenic Communication Disorders: The Expert Clinician’s Approach, Second Edition. Dr. Elman is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and serves on the Steering Committee of the Clinical Aphasiology Conference. In 2006, Dr. Elman was awarded the prestigious Jefferson Award which recognizes local citizens for their outstanding public service to the community.

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