Dr. Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah is a 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 on aphasia and bilingualism . She recently initiated a multi-faculty collaboration to set up a research participant registry called Communication Across the Lifespan at Maryland. She is a member of the Maryland Language Science Center and the Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science.