Postdoctoral Associate, DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project and HITSS

Tahlia Bragg (she/ella) is a Postdoctoral Associate at Stern Lab working in the DIAGNOSE CTE and HITSS studies at the BU CTE Center. She completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, based in Santa Barbara, CA, in 2022. Most recently, she was a Psychology Intern at The Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology (CMTP) at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine & Boston Medical Center where her clinical foci were providing behavioral and psychotherapeutic interventions in systems-based care for children and families. She has an extensive clinical and research background in Clinical Neuropsychology, with emphases on racial disparities in neuropsychology that impact Black-identified communities. As a founding member and inaugural president of the Black Student Association at Fielding Graduate University, she guided the organization into more inclusive programming and education within the university. With nearly 20 years of research experience, she has contributed to numerous research projects in academia and the private sector. In addition to her research responsibilities, Dr. Bragg is also providing clinical care in the Memory & Aging Disorder Clinic at Boston Medical Center.

Graduate Assistant, DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project and HITSS

Diana is a Fulbright Scholar from the 2021 cohort, a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience at Boston University. She graduated with honors with a BSc in Psychology and a MSc in Neuroscience from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. After graduation, she worked as a neuropsychologist and study coordinator studying the disruption of brain connectivity in patients with impaired consciousness after acute brain injury at ICU. Before joining the Graduate Program in Neuroscience, she was a trainee at the Physiology of Cognition Lab at the University of Liège where she developed a passion for French, Belgian beer, and functional connectivity disruption of large-scale human brain networks. Diana joined the Stern Lab in January of 2022, as a rotation student for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project.

Research Fellow, DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project

Suzan graduated from Utrecht University (The Netherlands), where she obtained her degree in medicine in 2018. After two years of work as a physician at different neurology departments, she started her PhD trajectory at the Alzheimer Center Amsterdam in 2020. Here, she established the first cohort in the Netherlands with patients at risk for CTE: the NEwTON cohort. She has been responsible for the whole preparation and setup of this study, including the setup of an autopsy brain donor program in collaboration with the Netherlands Brain Bank. Suzan joined the Stern Lab in September 2022 and works as a Research Fellow for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project.