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Alumni

Elizabeth Gromisch, PhD

 

Dr. Gromisch graduated from the Ferkauf Clinical Health Psychology program in 2015. She completed her internship and fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven, CT. She has continued her work in MS as a research neuropsychologist at the Mandell Center for Multiple Sclerosis in Hartford, CT. She has a number of recent and current grants in MS, which include investigating pain-related illness intrusiveness, treatment adherence, and self-management. She has also conducted research on the development of a cognitive screening battery (aMACFIMS) and a measure of resiliency (MS Resiliency Scale), cognitive rehabilitation, and the utilization of neuropsychology and health psychology services.

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>> Click here to view a list of Dr. Gromisch's past research.

Meghan Beier, PhD

 

Dr. Beier received her PhD from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in 2015. She received her pre-doctoral internship training in the neuropsychology track at the VA Maryland Health Care System, and completed a National MS Society Rehabilitation Research Fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

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Dr. Beier is currently an Assistant Professor and Rehabilitation Neuropsychologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her current research focuses on characterizing emotional and cognitive symptoms common among people with MS, refining neuropsychological assessment techniques in this population, and developing interventions to ameliorate or slow MS-related cognitive decline. As part of this line of research, she is currently working to validate a new neuropsychological assessment tool that can be delivered online in patients’ homes.

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>> Click here to view Dr. Beiers CV.

Sara Michaud, PhD

 

Dr. Michaud received her PhD in clinical psychology (health emphasis) with a concentration in neuropsychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in 2016. She completed her pre-doctoral internship training in neurorehabilitation at Rusk Rehabilitation, New York University Langone Health, where she gained expertise in the clinical practice of neuropsychology and cognitive rehabilitation.

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Dr. Michaud is currently a second-year neuropsychology post-doctoral fellow at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, where she is involved in neuropsychological research and clinical practice. She actively participates in Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems site-specific research and is the co-principal investigator of a clinical research project focused on assessment of post-stroke cognitive fatigue. She provides neuropsychological evaluation of patients referred by neurology and neurosurgery. She supervises undergraduate student interns at JFK and graduate students through the Parnes Clinic. 

Gabriel Hoffnung, PhD

 

Dr. Hoffnung graduated from the Ferkauf Clinical Health Psychology program in 2017. He completed his internship at the Center for Applied Psychology of Rockland County and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Anxiety. Dr Hoffnung has developed his clinical career as a provider of adult and child intensive outpatient psychotherapy (IOP), a higher level of outpatient care designed to lessen reliance on inpatient services among patients in crisis whose symptoms do not warrant hospitalization.

 

Dr. Hoffnung is a research coordinator with the Center for Anxiety, working with the center's director and founder David H. Rosmarin, PhD, ABPP, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and an expert in the field of clinical research on the role of religion and spirituality in mental health. Dr. Hoffnung continues his work in MS as a peer reviewer for the International Journal of MS Care, reviewing articles in the fields of psycho-social factors affecting MS patients and families and MS psychotherapy.

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Lisa Glukhovsky, PhD

 

Dr. Glukhovsky received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (Health Emphasis) from Ferkauf in 2018. Her dissertation examined cognitive-motor dual-task learning in multiple sclerosis. She completed her internship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow in the Mount Sinai's Department of Neurology, where she conducts clinical and research work in neuropsychological assessment.  Her research interests relate to neuropsychological and psychiatric factors in multiple sclerosis, particularly executive functions such as multitasking.

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