Fofi Constantinidou, PhD, CCC-SLP, FACRM

President-Elect, ACRM Board of Governors
Professor of Language Disorders and Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology & Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus

 

 

Fofi Constantinidou, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, CBIS, FASHA, FACRM, is Professor of Language Disorders and Clinical Neuropsychology, & Founding Director, Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus. Prior to repatriating to Cyprus, she was Professor of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Miami University, Ohio, USA where she established the Miami University Sports Concussion Management Program. For over 25 years, her research, teaching, and clinical expertise center on acquired adult neurological disorders. Fofi’s innovative research focuses on the neurophysiological underpinnings of cognitive, linguistic, and psychosocial deficits resulting from acquired brain injury and aging, and more recently, long-COVID, and the development of effective neurorehabilitation modalities to improve patient outcomes, including the Categorization Program©, a hierarchical cognitive intervention which is now digitalized for wider reach. She has published and presented extensively in this area and has a 25-year extramural funding record as PI from the European Union, the National Institutes of Health (USA), the Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation, and the industry. Her funding portfolio exceeds 11.0 million (>4.5 million as PI). Currently, she is the PI on a EU Funded project (Horizon Europe), The Brain Research and Integrative Network on COVID-19, aiming to characterize post covid sequalae and develop neurorehabilitation pathways using contemporary neuroscience methodologies.

Fofi is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association and a Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) with extensive professional service and leadership positions. She is the first President-Elect of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) residing outside of North America, the Deputy Chair of the European Speech & Language Association and the immediate past president of the Cyprus Association of Registered Speech Language Pathologists. Prestigious awards include the Women in Rehabilitation Sciences Award (ACRM), the Distinguished Researcher Award (Cyprus Research & Innovation Foundation), and ACRM Distinguished Member Award. Her vision is to contribute to precision cognitive rehabilitation and improve patient outcomes through evidence-based innovative research and capacity building. For more information about her research and publications visit: Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7928-8363; LinkedIn: fofi-constantinidou-b0056639; University of Cyprus- https://www.ucy.ac.cy/directory/en/profile/constaf.