Rhonda Friedman is a professor in the department of neurology. She is a member of Center for Neural Injury and Recovery (CNIR), the Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences (GICCS) and the Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition (CBBC). She is also a faculty member of the graduate program in biomedical sciences, the interdisciplinary program in neuroscience, and the program in cognitive science. In addition to this, she serves as the vice president of the medical center at the university faculty senate and is the chair of the medical center caucus in the senate. She is also involved in the second language acquistion (SLA) program.