Joan Stilling is an Assistant Professor of clinical rehabilitation medicine at Weill Cornell and the Columbia University Medical Center with board certification in rehabilitation medicine, brain injury medicine, and electromyography. She received her bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with a biomedical specialization from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Then, she went on to receive her M.D. and M.Sc. in neuroscience at the University of Calgary, Canada. She completed her medical residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Calgary and her post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, in neurorehabilitation and non-invasive brain stimulation. She specializes in general neurorehabilitation, including stroke, concussion, and traumatic brain injury. She researches different methods of non-invasive brain stimulation for use in stroke and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation.
Rene L. Utianski received her B.A. in psychology and speech and hearing science from George Washington University, her M.S. in communication sciences and disorders, and her Ph.D. in speech and hearing science from Arizona State University. Then, she completed a fellowship in electrophysiology at the Movement Disorder Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory, Department of Neurology, and a residency and clinical post-doctoral fellowship in speech pathology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. She is now a Consultant in the Section of Speech Pathology, Department of Neurology, and an Associate Professor of Neurology and Speech Pathology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Her research interests include neurogenic motor speech disorders (dysarthrias and apraxia of speech), degenerative language disorders (aphasia), and functional speech disturbances. The focus of her research is to define the distinguishing clinical and acoustical characteristics of these neurological disorders, establish their neurological and electrophysiological correlates, and refine their differential diagnoses.
Rajani Sebastian graduated from UT Austin Dell Medical School and received her Ph.D. in communication sciences and disorders. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine focused on studying longitudinal language recovery in stroke using multimodal brain imaging techniques and using noninvasive brain stimulation to augment language recovery in stroke. She is a Researcher and a Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in adult communication disorders and recovery after stroke. She is also an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Zafer Keser is a board-certified Vascular Neurologist who treats patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and complex cerebrovascular pathologies in the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic. He received his M.D. from the Cerrahpasa Medical School, University of Istanbul. He completed a research internship in neuromodulation at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital; a post-doctoral fellowship at the Neurorecovery Research Center, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; a residency in neurology at the McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; and a fellowship in vascular neurology from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His research focuses on using advanced technologies such as neuromodulation to enhance recovery after stroke. He also leads research studies in intracranial and cervical artery dissections and conducts studies to characterize the natural history of these rare disease entities.
