Welcome to a multiple sclerosis (MS) roundtable discussion with visiting scientists Fabiola Garcia and Yolanda Higueras, PhD, and Kessler Foundation’s Drs. Nancy D. Chiaravalloti and Denise Krch. The guests discuss their collaborative research treating new learning and memory deficits in people with MS using the modified Story Memory Technique (mSMT). For more information about Kessler Foundation and our researchers, go to www.KesslerFoundation.org Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, listen to us on Soundcloud, and tweet with us on Twitter! Be sure and check out our guests bios below: Fabiola García-Vaz is a fully accredited Clinical Neuropsychologist in Spain, Member of the National Commission of Accreditation in Neuropsychology of the Spanish Psychological Society, and Member of the Division of Neuropsychology of the British Psychological Society. García-Vaz has a long professional trajectory working with neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders for more than twenty years and combines her clinical practice with her position as an Assistant Lecturer in the Complutense University of Madrid, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. As a researcher, she is focused on clinical neuropsychology and neurodegenerative diseases, and currently working in cognition and multiple sclerosis collaborating with the Unit of Multiple Sclerosis of the Foundation for Biomedical Research of the Hospital La Princesa; she is currently completing her training with her PhD thesis in this field. Yolanda Higueras Hernández, PhD in Psychology has been working in the field of neuropsychology since finishing her Master Degree in 2001. Her work was strongly related with research and based on several neurological diseases such as dementia, movement disorders, stroke or epilepsy. Nowadays she is focused on multiple sclerosis and combine her role as neuropsychologist with teaching assistant duties at Complutense University, School of Psychology. Dr. Nancy D. Chiaravalloti is the Director of Neuropsychology and Neuroscience and Traumatic Brain Injury research at Kessler Foundation. She is the Project Director for the Northern New Jersey TBI Model System funded by the Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a division of the Department of Education. Dr. Chiaravalloti conducts research in cognitive rehabilitation, particularly in new learning, memory and processing speed… read more at https://kesslerfoundation.org/aboutus/Nancy%20Chiaravalloti Dr. Denise Krch is a Research Scientist in the Traumatic Brain Injury research at Kessler Foundation and a licensed psychologist in the state of New York. Dr. Krch's research interests include the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation interventions for persons with Multiple Sclerosis and Traumatic Brain Injury, with a special interest in the development of culturally competent intervention methods to maximize the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation intervention with Hispanics. In a separate line of research, Dr. Krch is investigating the role of cognitive reserve in Traumatic Brain Injury. Previous research interests have been in examining neuropsychological functioning in Huntington’s and Parkinson’s disease populations, using traditional neuropsychological measures and functional neuroimaging (Position Emission Tomography)….. read more at https://kesslerfoundation.org/aboutus/Denise%20Krch