Richard
Boada
,
PhD, ABPP
1750 E. Fairmount Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21231
United States
About
Dr. Richard Boada is a faculty member and licensed clinical neuropsychologist at Kennedy Krieger Institute. He is also an associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Boada sees patients with a wide variety of medical and neurodevelopmental conditions from birth through young adulthood primarily through the Epilepsy/Acquired Brain Injury Clinic and Congenital/Genetic Conditions Clinic in the Center for Neuropsychological and Psychological Assessment. He has specific expertise in children with epilepsy (including those who are candidates for epilepsy surgery), stroke, sex-chromosome aneuploidy and language/learning disorders. Dr. Boada is also a certified speech-language pathologist and is a qualified bilingual provider (Spanish).
Education
Dr. Boada earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Virginia. Subsequently, he obtained a master’s degree in Communication Science and Disorders from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD, in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Denver. Dr. Boada completed an APA-accredited internship in clinical psychology and a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Research
Dr. Boada’s research interests are focused on understanding the phenotypic, cognitive, and genetic bases of neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., language impairment, dyslexia, ADHD) as well as the neuropsychological outcomes of children with acquired neurological or genetic conditions (i.e., stroke, epilepsy, sex chromosome aneuploidy, Down syndrome). He has done research investigating the comorbidity among speech, language, reading and executive functioning deficits, and has collaborated on studies using behavior-genetic and molecular-genetic analytic methods to elucidate the relationship among etiological factors affecting these disorders. Dr. Boada has been involved in longitudinal studies investigating the long-term outcomes of children with stroke and the natural history of children with sex chromosome aneuploidy. He has been involved in clinical trials with the Klinefelter and Down syndrome populations and is currently involved in projects investigating language and memory representation in bilingual children with epilepsy.