Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • MA/PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (2017)
    Northwestern University

  • BA in Cognitive Science (2008)
    University of California, Berkeley

Certification & Licensure

  • License in Speech-Language Pathology (active since 2019)
    State of California

  • Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (active since 2018)
    American Speech-Language Hearing Association

Professional Experience

  • Colleen B. Wilcox Endowed Associate Professor (2026-Present)
    Communicative Disorders and Sciences, San José State University

  • Assistant Professor (2022-2026)
    Communicative Disorders and Sciences, San José State University

  • Assistant Professor (2021-2022)
    Communication Sciences and Disorders, California State University, Chico

  • Speech-Language Pathologist (2021)
    Balanced Speech Therapy, San Mateo, CA

  • Postdoctoral Scholar & Research Speech-Language Pathologist (2018-2021)
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco

  • Clinical Fellow in Speech-Language Pathology (2017-2018)
    Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco

Professional Affiliations

  • American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

  • California Speech-Language-Hearing Association

  • Academy of Aphasia

  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society

  • Society for the Neurobiology of Language

Publications

  1. Robinaugh, G., Beeson, P. M., Dial, H. R., Europa, E., Hubbard, H. I., Schaffer-Mendez, K., Millanski, C., Rising, K., Schmidt, O., Wauters, L.D, Hixon, J. G., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., Grasso, S. M., & Henry, M. L. (in press). Quantifying meaningful information in incorrect naming responses following strategic word-retrieval treatment in primary progressive aphasia. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2026_JSLHR-26-00132 

  2. Reyes, R. J. R., Guevarra, A., Mamuyac, E., Posis, A., Calderón Cuevas, L. M., Martinez Roman, L., Suntay, J. M., Caunca, M., Tee, B. L., Windon, C., Lanata, S., Bondoc, I. P., Europa, E., & de Leon, J. A. (2026). Understanding dementia in Filipino Americans: risk factors, research gaps, and progress. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 12(3), e70319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/trc2.70319 

  3. Europa, E., Bondoc, I., Mamuyac, E., Li, E., & de Leon, J.A. (2026). Symmetrical Voice and Word Order Preferences of Cognitively Healthy Adults During Tagalog Syntax Comprehension. Perspectives of ASHA Special Interest Groups, 11(5), 1829-1838. https://doi.org/10.1044/2026_PERSP-25-00216 

  4. Europa, E., Mamuyac, E., Bondoc, I. P., Costales, A. A., Santos, B., Olarte, J. A. A., & de Leon, J. (2026). Towards an Equitable Approach to Multilingual Language Assessment in Dementia Care. Topics in Language Disorders, 46(3), 106-117. https://doi.org/10.1097/TLD.0000000000000387 

  5. Hausmann, A., García, A.M., Costa, A. S., Bose, A., Tee, B.L., Rivera-Fernandez, C., Europa, E., Kavé, G., Sung, J. E., Okada de Oliveira, M., Wigdorowitz, M., Garraffa, M., Carthery-Goulart, M. T., Kleiman, M. J., Friedmann, N., Mazzeo, S., Diouny, S., Franzen, S., Toniolo, S., Grasso, S. M., Bak, T. H., & Borghesani, V. (2026). Redefining the norms: an interdisciplinary perspective on language testing in multilingual patients. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 18, e70366. https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.70366 

  6. Grasso, S.M., Berstis, K., Schaffer Mendez, K., Keegan-Rodewald, W.R., Wauters, L.D., Europa, E., Hubbard, H.I., Dial, H.R., Hixon, J.G., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., Vogel, A., & Henry, M.L. (2025). Investigating changes in connected speech in nonfluent/agrammatic primary progressive aphasia following script training. Cortex, 183, 193-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.019 

  7. de Leon, J.A., Bondoc, I., Mamuyac, E., Posecion, L., Europa, E., Kintanar, L.C., Roco, N., Lamoca, M., Escueta, N., & Ta Park, V.M. (2023). The development of the Cognitive Assessment for Tagalog Speakers (CATS): A culturally and linguistically tailored test battery for Filipino Americans. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 9(3), e12418. https://doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12418‍ ‍

  8. Mandelli, M.L., Lorca Puls, D., Lukic, S., Montembeault, M., Gajardo Vidal, A., Licata, A., Scheffler, A., Battistella, G., Grasso, S.M., Bogley, R., Ratnasiri, B., La Joie, R., Mundada, N., Europa, E., Rabinovici, G., Miller, B., de Leon, J.A., Henry, M.L., Miller, Z., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2023). Network anatomy in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia. Human Brain Mapping, 44(11), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26388‍ ‍

  9. Dial, H.R., Europa, E., Grasso, S.M., Mandelli, M.L., Schaffer, K.M., Hubbard, H.I., Wauters, L.D., Wineholt, L., Wilson, S.M., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., & Henry, M.L. (2022). Baseline structural neuroimaging correlates of treatment outcomes in semantic variant primary progressive aphasia. Cortex, 158, 158-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.10.004

  10. Tee, B.L., De Leon, J., Kwan Chen, L.L.Y., Miller, B.L., Lo, R., Europa, E., Sudarsan, S., Grasso, S.M., & Gorno-Tempini, M.L. (2021). Tonal and orthographic analysis in a Cantonese-speaking individual with nonfluent/agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia. Neurocase, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2021.1925302

  11. Europa, E., Iaccarino, L., Perry, D.C., Weis, E., Welch, A.E., Rabinovici, G.D., Miller, B.L., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., & Henry, M.L. (2020) Diagnostic assessment in primary progressive aphasia: An illustrative case example. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. https://pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/2020_AJSLP-20-00007

  12. Borghesani, V., Hinkley, L.B., Ranasinghe, K.G., Thompson, M.M.C., Shwe, W., Mizuiri, D., Lauricella, M., Europa, E., Honma, S., Miller, Z., Miller, B., Houde, J.F., Gorno-Tempini, M.L., & Nagarajan, S.S. (2020). Taking the sub-lexical route: Brain dynamics of reading in the semantic variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia. Brain, 143(8), 2545-2560. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa212

  13. Barbieri, E., Mack, J.E., Dougherty, B.M., Europa, E., & Thompson, C.K. (2019). Recovery of offline and online sentence processing in aphasia: Language and domain-general network neuroplasticity. Cortex, 120, 394-418. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.06.015‍ ‍

  14. Europa, E., Gitelman, D.R., Kiran, S., & Thompson, C.K. (2019). Neural connectivity for processing noncanonical sentences with syntactic movement. Frontiers of Human Neuroscience, 13, 27. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00027‍ ‍

  15. Walenski, M., Europa, E., Caplan, D., Thompson, C.K. (2019). Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: An ALE‐based meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies. Human Brain Mapping, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24523‍ ‍

  16. Kim, J., Whyte, J., Patel, S., Europa, E., Slattery, J., Coslett, H. B., & Detre, J. A. (2012). A perfusion fMRI study of the neural correlates of sustained-attention and working-memory deficits in chronic traumatic brain injury. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 26(7), 870-880. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968311434553‍ ‍

  17. Kim, J., Whyte, J., Patel, S., Europa, E., Wang, J., Coslett, H. B., & Detre, J. A. (2012). Methylphenidate modulates sustained attention and cortical activation in survivors of traumatic brain injury: a perfusion fMRI study. Psychopharmacology, 222(1), 47-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-011-2622-8‍ ‍

  18. Kim, J., Whyte, J., Patel, S., Avants, B., Europa, E., Wang, J., Slattery, J., Gee, J.C., Coslett, H.B., Detre, J.A. (2010). Resting CBF alterations in chronic traumatic brain injury: An arterial spin labeling perfusion fMRI study. Journal of Neurotrauma, 27(8), 1399-1411. https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2009.1215