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Melrose Resident Tiffany Hogan Joins MGH Institute of Health Professions as Professor and Director

BOSTON - Melrose resident Tiffany Hogan, PhD, CCC-SLP, has joined MGH Institute of Health Professions as Director of the Boston graduate school’s new Speech and Language Literacy Lab (SAiL Literacy Lab).  

Dr. Hogan, who also holds the position of Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, teaches graduate courses in literacy assessment and intervention, phonological disorders, and professional issues in academia.

In addition, Dr. Hogan provides doctoral research training for graduate students in the PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program at the Institute.

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Her research focuses on the genetic, neurological, and behavioral links between oral and written language development, with a focus on co-morbid speech, language and literacy disorders, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

Prior to joining the Institute, she worked at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She began her career as an assistant professor at the University of Arizona.

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Dr. Hogan earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degree in Speech-Language Pathology from University of Central Missouri, as well as a PhD in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Kansas.

MGH Institute of Health Professions, founded by Massachusetts General Hospital in 1977, is the only degree-granting affiliate of the renowned Partners HealthCare. A progressive leader in developing compre­hensive models of health professions education, the MGH Institute prepares advanced practice professionals in the fields of communication sciences and disorders, nursing, physical therapy, health professions education, and rehabilitation sciences through a distinctive combination of academic study, clinical practice, and research. Close to 1,300 students are enrolled in graduate level and certificate programs, with an increasing number of courses available online. The MGH Institute is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC).

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