Our Rehab Riff Raff leaders represent the frontal lobe of the group.  They keep things organized, keep the group headed in the right direction, and ensure that all members of the group benefit from participation, fostering an environment of respect, encouragement, and accountability.  With their help, the Riff Raff continue forward.

All current Riff Raff leaders have attained specialty board certification in Rehabilitation Psychology through ABPP within the last 2 years, ensuring current knowledge of the process.

Current LeaderS

Alisha Janssen, PhD, ABPP-RP, Outgoing Chair

Dr. Alisha Janssen is originally from a farming family in Ransom, IL. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign for undergraduate where she majored in psychology with a minor in nutrition. She then went on to The Ohio State University where she worked with Dr. Ruchika Prakash studying cognitive rehabilitation and its fMRI correlates in patients with multiple sclerosis. She graduated from OSU in 2017 and went on to complete her internship and post-doctoral fellowship in rehabilitation psychology at the University of Washington Medical Center. There, she fell in love with the Pacific Northwest and decided to make it her home for 8 years, taking a job at  Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital’s inpatient trauma rehab center in 2018- January, 2024. When an opportunity came to move back to the Midwest, Dr. Janssen was drawn yet again to those rolling fields of grain. She is now the inpatient rehabilitation psychologist for the brain injury service at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She is involved in research with Mayo’s TBI model systems and assists with supervision and teaching as part of Mayo’s neuropsychology fellowship. She is a mentor for Division 22 pre-doctoral students. She achieved board certification in rehabilitation psychology in February, 2023. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, hiking, camping, driving tractors back in IL, and spending time with family and friends.

Alicia Sharma, PsyD, ABPP-RP, Chair

Dr. Alicia Sharma is from Monmouth County, NJ. She completed her undergraduate work at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, where she double majored in psychology and neuroscience. She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Loyola University Maryland in 2016. She completed clinical internship in rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System, where she worked primarily in inpatient, outpatient, and long-term care settings with veterans with spinal cord injury. Finding herself missing Baltimore, she returned to complete a two-year fellowship in neuropsychology and rehabilitation psychology at VA Maryland Healthcare System, where she trained in the MS and Epilepsy Centers of Excellence. In 2019, she began working at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD as an outpatient rehabilitation neuropsychologist. Her primary clinical roles are in interdisciplinary teams for acquired brain injury and MS. She achieved board certification in rehabilitation psychology in October 2023. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, getting outside, being by the water year-round, and trying to cook.