Chitrali Mamlekar is a PhD candidate at Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cincinnati, under the direction of Dr. Aimee Dietz. As a part of her doctoral studies, she focuses on patient-provider communication and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). She has been the recipient of the Kala Singh Memorial Fund- International/Minority Student Scholarship (2018) from the American Speech Hearing Association, as well as the recipient of the Research Mentor Pair Travel awarded for early-career scientist in the area of Neuroplasticity Research in Language Recovery in Aphasia (2018). She was also awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Allied Health from University of Cincinnati (2018).