Meet the Team
Lab Director
Hana Kim, Ph.D.
Phone: (813) 974-2092
Email: hanakim1@usf.edu
Office: PCD4006
Dr. Hana Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences
and Disorders and the director of the Language in Aging and Stroke Rehabilitation
(LASER) Lab. She earned her BA and master's degree at Ewha Womans University in South
Korea. Following the completion of her degree, she worked in medical centers as an
SLP in the Department of Neurology and in the Department of Rehabilitation, primarily
with adults with neurogenic communication disorders. She received her PhD at East
Carolina University under the guidance of Dr. Heather Harris Wright. Before joining
USF, she worked in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow under Dr. Argye Hilis. Her primary research interest
is understanding discourse-level language production and comprehension, as well as
their relationships with cognition and social support in adults with acquired neurogenic
communication disorders. She has also been devoted to developing a clinician-friendly
language measure for individuals with stroke-induced aphasia, and you can see some
of her work in AphasiaBank (https://aphasia.talkbank.org/discourse/CoreLexicon/).
Another research interest of hers is how language is processed in the brain, neuroscientifically,
using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Outside of her research, she
is a big fan of sports, especially hockey. In her free time, she likes traveling and
exploring new places.