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Nancy Alarcon, MS, CCC-SLP, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington and is the director of the university's Speech and Hearing Clinic. She received her BS from Purdue University and her MS from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She maintains a Board Certification (Adult) from the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences. Ms. Alarcon is an ASHA Fellow and a former Legislative Councilor. She has served as the chair of the Committee on Honors, and chair of the Council for Clinical Specialty Recognition. She has also served on the Coordinating Committee for the Vice President for Quality of Service in Speech-Language Pathology and has actively participated in ASHA's Personnel Shortage and Workload Cadres.
Susan Brady, MS, CCC-SLP, BRS-S, is a clinical educator and research coordinator for the Swallowing and Voice Center at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Illinois, where she is also co-chair of the hospital's Institutional Review Board. She has been with Marianjoy for 14 years. Previously she was the associate director/area supervisor of speech-language pathology at the Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois. She is a member of the Steering Committee of ASHA Special Interest Division 13, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia). She is the liaison to the Division's membership and public action committees, and also serves on the editorial board for the Division newsletter. She is a charter member of the ASHA Board Recognized Specialists in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (BRS-S), and participated on the ASHA task force for the development of FEES practice guidelines. Ms. Brady has published several times in peer-reviewed medical journals on the topic of dysphagia and has lectured at state and national events. She has been a peer reviewer for ASHA CEU products and for the medical journals Dysphagia, Brain Injury, and The Laryngoscope. Ms. Brady graduated from Illinois State University with a Master of Science degree in 1990, and received the University's distinguished alumnus award in 2007.
Caren Carlaw, MA, CCC-SLP, is the project lead for the GF Strong water protocol and oral care project, and is the principal investigator for the research project, "A randomized controlled trial of a water protocol for clients with thin liquid dysphagia: a pilot project." She is a supervisor of speech-language pathology at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey, British Columbia.
Becky Sutherland Cornett, PhD, CHC, is director of fiscal integrity in the finance administration at the Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus. A certified health care compliance professional, Dr. Cornett was associate compliance director at OSUMC for approximately six years. Formerly, she directed inpatient rehabilitation services and speech-language pathology services at the same institution. In the mid-1980s, Dr. Cornett served as associate director of the reimbursement policy division at the ASHA national office. She holds a PhD in communication sciences and disorders from the University of Pittsburgh, is an ASHA Fellow, and has published and presented widely on health care compliance, quality, and health care management issues. She is a member of ASHA's Health Care Economics Committee (HCEC) and recently chaired the Ad Hoc Committee on Medical Review Guidelines for Private Health Plans.
John Costello, MA, CCC-SLP, is the director of the augmentative communication program at Children's Hospital, Boston, where he has been a speech-language pathologist for over 24 years. His clinical practice has focused on AAC assessment and intervention in the outpatient and inpatient setting. John is also adjunct faculty at Boston University, MGH Institute of Health Professionals, Emerson College, and Northeastern University, where he teaches graduate-level courses in AAC.
Tanya Eadie, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington. She is currently conducting outcomes measurement research in populations with voice disorders. Her interests focus on improving the reliability of auditory-perceptual measures, as well as measuring the functional impact of voice disorders, particularly among those who have been treated for head and neck cancer. Dr. Eadie's work is currently supported by an R03 grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute).
Tom Jelen, BS, is director of web and knowledge strategy at ASHA, where he leads and supports ASHA's use of online technologies as an essential part of its mission. He has worked in the nonprofit technology field for over ten years. Before joining ASHA, Tom was a Web application development team leader for a nonprofit technology company, Community IT Innovators, in Washington, DC. He also worked as the first Web producer of TechSoup.org in San Francisco. He holds a BS in computer science from the University of Dayton and a certificate in documentary filmmaking from The George Washington University.
Mark Kander, MHA, is the director of health care regulatory analysis in the Government Relations and Public Policy cluster of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Kander assists ASHA members with a wide variety of problems encountered in the Medicare and Medicaid claims process, and reviews and comments on draft documents circulated by the federal CMS central office, carriers, and intermediaries. Mr. Kander is a co-author of ASHA's Medicare Handbook for Audiologists and Medicare Handbook for Speech-Language Pathologists (currently under revision). Previously, as the executive editor of National Health Publishing Corporation in Owings Mills, Maryland, Kander created several reference books for health facility administrators, including Health Administration: Laws, Regulations, and Guidelines. He is a graduate of the Ohio State University (BS in business administration) and the George Washington University (MA in health services administration).
Paula Leslie, PhD, CCC-SLP, CertMRCSLT (UK), is a dysphagia clinician, researcher, and educator whose professional areas of focus include aging, ethics, and end-of-life decisions in vulnerable populations. She is also interested in health professionals' education and non-traditional routes to advanced clinical training. She was one of the designers of the world's first dysphagia research degree for SLPs and ENTs in the United Kingdom, and has now joined the implementation team for the clinical doctorate in medical speech-language pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a Certified Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in the United Kingdom.
Gregory Lof, PhD, CCC-SLP, is the chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, a graduate school founded by the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research, teaching, and clinical interests focus on children who have speech sound disorders. Dr. Lof was topic coordinator for speech sound disorders for the 2004 and 2009 ASHA Conventions and has served on many ASHA Convention Program Committees. He is or has been an editorial consultant for most of the ASHA journals and recently was a member of the committee that conducted a systematic review of research on oral motor exercises through ASHA's Center for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders. He is also on the communications committee of the Council on Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Janet P. McCarty, MEd, CCC-SLP, is private health plans advisor in ASHA's Health Care Economics and Advocacy unit. She holds an undergraduate and graduate degree in speech-language pathology from the University of Virginia. McCarty has served as director of a community speech and hearing clinic, and has also worked in a variety of settings including hospitals, home health agencies, schools, and nursing homes. She edited Promoting Your Services to Health Plans, and co-authored Health Plan Coding and Claims Guide and Negotiating Health Care Contracts and Calculating Fees. She has written articles on establishing billing policies, early intervention programs and funding, how reimbursement codes are valued by payers, and most recently reported on a successful appeal for a pediatric swallowing denial. McCarty has worked extensively on issues related to CPT and ICD-9 billing codes and health plan appeals.
Albert Merati, MD, is the chief of laryngology services in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at University of Washington Medical Center. His areas of research interest are swallowing dysfunction, airway disease, and vocal fold paralysis. Dr. Merati is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, as well as the co-editor, along with Dr. Steven Bielamowicz, of two highly regarded textbooks: Textbook of Laryngology and Textbook of Voice Disorders (Plural Publishing). He was the recipient of the 2008 Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.
Laura L. Murray, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience Programs at Indiana University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on acquired neurogenic cognitive and communication disorders. Her contributions include more than 50 peer-reviewed and invited journal articles and book chapters, a graduate-level textbook, and more than 110 invited and refereed conference presentations in the fields of aphasia, right hemisphere disorders, dementia, traumatic brain injury, and normal aging. Research interests include examining how cognitive deficits (e.g., attention) interact with the language abilities of adults with neurogenic communication disorders, and developing assessment and treatment strategies for these patient populations.
Wren S. Newman, SLPD, CCC-SLP, is associate dean for the programs in speech-language and communication disorders at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She was named a Fellow of ASHA in 2006. Dr. Newman is currently a member of ASHA's Academic Affairs Coordinating Committee. She has previously served as the coordinator of Special Interest Division 11, Administration and Supervision, and served on the Ad Hoc Committee on Supervision in Speech-Language Pathology. In January, 2010, she will begin a two-year term on the ASHA Board of Ethics. She serves on the Board of Directors of Easter Seals South Florida.
Tannus Quatre, PT, MBA, is a private practice consultant and business strategist for Vantage Clinical Solutions, a practice management and consulting firm with locations in Bend, Oregon and Denver, Colorado. Tannus graduated with a Master's degree in physical therapy from UCSF and has practiced as a physical therapist in acute, outpatient, and home health settings. Tannus maintains certifications in athletic training and strength and conditioning, and has provided athletic training services to high school, college and professional athletes. He holds an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and in 2006, co-founded Vantage Clinical Solutions which fulfills the mission of improving health care by helping providers own and operate successful private practices. Tannus writes regularly for PT Magazine, Impact, Advance for Directors in Rehabilitation and the blog, The Healthcare Entrepreneur.
Christine Sapienza, PhD, CCC-SLP, joined the University of Florida faculty in 1993 and currently serves as professor and chair in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and as a research health scientist at the Malcom Randall VA in Gainesville, Florida. Honored as an ASHA Fellow in 2005, Dr. Sapienza's area of specialty is voice disorders, with focus on the design and implementation of strength training intervention for persons with neurological and neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis. Author of the recent graduate textbook Voice Disorders, Dr. Sapienza has an extensive publication list of over 100 peer-reviewed papers. She also has edited textbooks and numerous book chapters. An avid presenter, Dr. Sapienza thoroughly enjoys working with her doctoral and post-doctoral fellows and the multidisciplinary research collaboration with colleagues in the UF Departments of Physiology, Neuroscience, and Neurology. She currently holds a four-year Veterans Affairs Merit Review grant which is testing the outcome of respiratory strength training in those with PD and MS, as well as assessing the use of a caregiver program for home-based training.
Donna Scarborough, PhD, CCC-SLP, specializes in developmental/medical speech language pathology, developmental neurosensory physiology, and pediatric dysphagia at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 2004 she established the Clinical Dysphagia Research Laboratory. Current projects include working with the Miami University's Neuroscience Center to generate an animal model to better understand the gag reflex at the brainstem level, developing a treatment technique to decrease the hyperactive gag reflex, conducting ultrasound studies to evaluate hyoid bone movement in preschoolers, and collaborating with the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering department (Miami U.) to generate a prototype high chair and an advanced training cup. She currently serves as the chair of ASHA's Special Interest Division 13, Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia) Research Committee, and is a member of the Division's pediatric advisory board. Over the past 14 years Dr. Scarborough has also provided clinical services to children enrolled in the birth-to-three programs of Ohio and Kentucky.
Katie Schwartz, MA, CCC-SLP, is the director of Business Speech Improvement in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is the author of four books: Talking on the Job: The World of Corporate Speech Pathology, Sound Stories for Adults, and Alternative Career Options for Speech-Language Pathologists. Her newest is Portable Parent, to facilitate communication between parents and their college-age offspring. Katie is the founder of the Corporate Speech Pathology Network (CORSPAN). Fascinated by communication in the workplace and by how people develop ideas, she combines the two with speech-language pathology in a practice that specializes in corporate speech pathology.
McKay Moore Sohlberg, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a professor at the University of Oregon where she directs the Master's and PhD programs in Communication Disorders and Sciences. She is widely known for her pioneering work in cognitive rehabilitation, having authored numerous journal articles, two leading texts, and a number of widely used evidence-based clinical programs. Her research focuses on the development and evaluation of methods to manage acquired deficits in attention, memory, and executive functions. She is supported by a number of federal grants to develop and evaluate assistive technology for individuals with cognitive impairment. Dr. Sohlberg has been active at the national level in the development of evidence-based practice guidelines for cognitive rehabilitation.
Judy Stone-Goldman, PhD, CCC-SLP is an Emeritus Senior Lecturer in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle. Dually credentialed as a speech-language pathologist and counselor, she had a long career teaching in the areas of child speech-language disorders, treatment methodology, and counseling, as well as working clinically with children and families in early intervention centers, schools, and clinics. Through her popular counseling course at the University and counseling workshops around the country, she taught students and professionals to understand and monitor boundaries as a key to managing challenges that arise in professional life, particularly in the interpersonal realm. Following her retirement in 2007 she began seeing pediatric speech-language clients privately, which brought home to her the inevitable stressors, loss of boundaries, and consequent imbalance inherent in the work. She discovered that she relied heavily on her longstanding writing practice to restore and maintain her balance. In 2008 she developed The Reflective Writer to teach others to use writing as a tool for achieving personal-professional balance. She currently offers workshops, presentations, and individual coaching on reflective writing and is eager to help other professionals learn this method of finding boundaries and balance.
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