Katarina Haley, PhD, CCC-SLP (Director)
Katarina is professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences. She specializes in the assessment and treatment of adults with left hemisphere brain injury. Her greatest areas of interests include the perceptual, motor, and language mechanisms that influence speech production in aphasia and apraxia of speech; the development of quantitative speech assessment procedures for clinical applications; and the development of procedures and materials to support self-determination in people with aphasia. She received her training in Speech-Language Pathology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and her graduate training at Vanderbilt University. She teaches courses in aphasia, neurologic communication disorders, and research design.  | Katarina_haley@med.unc.edu

Adam Jacks, PhD, CCC-SLP (Director)
Adam is an associate professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences. He teaches courses in speech science and neuromotor speech disorders. His research focuses on understanding the link between neuropathology and behavioral manifestations of neurological speech disorders, investigating novel interventions for people with aphasia, and identifying factors associated with improved quality of life with aphasia. After receiving MS and PhD degrees in Communication Sciences and Disorders at The University of Texas at Austin, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral neuroimaging at The Research Imaging Institute at The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio. | adam_jacks@med.unc.edu

Marcia Rodriguez, MSP, CCC-SLP
Marcia is a research speech-language pathologist (SLP) working with CARD. She is a certified Brain Injury Specialist and brings over 25 years of experience in physical rehabilitation working with both adolescents and adults. Her areas of expertise include stroke, traumatic brain injury, right-hemisphere disorders (RHD), and neurogenic communication disorders. She holds a master’s degree in speech pathology from the University of South Carolina. Previously, she served as the Director of the CARF-accredited Pediatric and Brain Injury Programs, and as the Director of Speech Pathology at Sea Pines Rehabilitation Hospital in Melbourne, Florida. Before joining CARD, Marcia worked in acute inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in the Raleigh area.
Contact information: (919) 525-1396 | marciaR@med.unc.edu

Mark A. Hirsch, PhD, FACRM, FPRD
Dr. Hirsch directs the Parkinson and Movement Disorders lab at Carolinas Rehabilitation in Charlotte, NC, USA. He completed NIH T32 fellowship training in neurorehabilitation research with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland (1996-99). He received advanced training in movement disorders at Department of Neurology, University of Dusseldorf, Germany (2000). He particularly enjoys exercise and spending time with his wife and two boys, and as a retired finalist world amateur formation ballroom championships, Blackpool, England, occasional salsa dancing.