Marlís González-Fernández


Education:

Undergraduate: B.S. with honors, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Medical Training: M.D. with honors, University of Puerto Rico, School of Medicine

Internship:Transitional year, San Juan Bautista Medical Center, Caguas, Puerto Rico

Residency: PM&R, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore in Association with University of Maryland.

Research Training:  Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Faculty Appointments :

Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Medical Director Outpatient Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics at Johns Hopkins Hospital

Specialty Certifications :

American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Research interests: Dysphagia, Neural correlates of speech and swallowing

Most recent publication:

Gonzalez-Fernandez, M., Kleinman, J., Ky, P.K., Palmer, J., Hillis, A.E. (2012). 

Supratentorial regions of acute ischemia associated with clinically important swallowing disorders: a pilot study. Stroke, 39, 3022-8.

 

Support:

Pending, Approved for funding:

"Neural Basis of Coexisting Swallowing & Communication Disorders after Stroke"
K23 DC011056
Sponsor: NIH/NIDCD

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