Dr. Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah is an Associate Professor and Director of the Aphasia Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her undergraduate (BS) and Masters (MS) degrees in Hearing and Speech Sciences at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, India. She completed her PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University with Dr. Cynthia Thompson.  Dr. Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah joined Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland in 2005. You can read more about her research at http://aphasia.umd.edu/. She is currently a member of the Maryland Language Science Center and the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.