Leslie J. Gonzalez-Rothi, Ph.D.
Bob Paul Family Professor of Neurology

Phone: (352) 273-5550
Fax: (352) 273-5575
gonzalj@neurology.ufl.edu

Department of Neurology
L3-100 McKnight Brain Institute
Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL. 32610

Bob Paul Family Professor of Neurology
Professor of Clinical & Health Psychology and Communicative Processes & Disorders
Program Director, VA Brain Rehabilitation Research Center

Professional Background: Ph.D. in Speech Pathology, University of Florida (1978)

Personal Info
Leslie Gonzalez-Rothi received her Ph.D. in Speech Pathology from the University of Florida in 1978. Currently, she is Professor of Neurology, Clinical & Health Psychology, and Communicative Processes and Disorders at the University of Florida and a University of Florida Research Foundation Professor (2001-2004). She is the Program Director of the Brain Rehabilitation Research Center of Excellence. At present, Dr. Gonzalez-Rothi serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, and Neuropsychology Review. Dr. Gonzalez-Rothi has been awarded Fellowship status by the Division of Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Psychological Association as well as the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and has been given the Outstanding Leader Award as well as Honors of the Association by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences. She is the 2006 Paul B. Magnuson awardee recognizing excellence in rehabilitation research.  She has served on the Executive Boards of the Academy of Aphasia and the National Aphasia Association, Presidents of the International Neuropsychological Society and of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences, and Coordinator of Special Interest Division 2 (Neurophysiology and neurogenic speech and language disorders) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Research Interests
Dr. Gonzalez-Rothi has centered her research in two main arenas:

(1) The cognitive neuropsychology of human communication as well as skilled, purposive, limb movement planning and performance, and

(2) Cortical plasticity in the mature CNS associated with new learning, functional recovery after CNS damage or injury, and response to rehabilitation. Currently she is funded by both NIDCD/NIH and the VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Service with clinical trials in treatment of aphasia, alexia, limb apraxia and aprosodia, the effects of adjunctive drug therapies in association with the previously listed treatment trials, and functional neuroimaging of functional recovery resulting from rehabilitation; health services research including the development of a brief cognitive inventory for use in prediction of treatment candidacy as well as functional outcome, development of a quality of life measure to be used in the context of aphasia after stroke; a large scale study of the interaction of language attributes in the context of aphasia, the impact of social factors such as race and marital status on outcome in aphasia, and the impact of intensity of treatment on outcome in aphasia.

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