Month: January 2022

Woo hoo for Lauren, who garnered her top choice postdoctoral fellowship at the Boston VA Medical Center. Hard-earned and well deserved, LJR-II. Lauren will have rich clinical and research experience there, including opportunities to continue her dissertation research on memory for emotion after acquired brain injury.

Jeremy is currently completing his predoctoral internship at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center, and he will finish in June 2022.

Jeremy won a competitive postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Florida Department of Health (Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program), which will fund his research, “Novel Training in Interventions for Treatment Adherence in Underserved Diverse Patients at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.”

Lauren’s dissertation: “Memory for Emotional Expressions in Adults with Acquired Brain Injury” and her committee: Lisa Rapport (Chair), Mark Lumley, Robin Hanks (WSU School of Medicine), and Scott Langenecker (University of Utah, Psychiatry).

• Lauren will be presenting a portion of her results at the upcoming conference of the International Neuropsychological Society: “Relationship Between Self-Reported Affect and Emotion Perception Following Acquired Brain Injury” (Poster Session 10, Friday 2/4, 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm).

Jeremy’s dissertation: “Predictors of Cognitive Reserve in Multiple Sclerosis” and his committee: Lisa Rapport (Chair), Mark Lumley, Eva Bernitsas (WSU, Neurology), Brigid Waldron-Perrine (University of Michigan), and Keith Whitfield (former WSU Provost, now UNLV President).

• Jeremy will be presenting a portion of his results at the upcoming conference of the International Neuropsychological Society, as a Paper Presentation in a symposium: “Cognitive Enrichment Moderates the Relationship Between Cognitive Dysfunction and Education Quality in Multiple Sclerosis” (Paper Session 15, Movement, Friday 2/4, 3:30-4:55 pm. The INS talks will also be available as recordings online.