Faculty

Carolyn Brown, Ph.D.

Professor
Department Executive Officer

Carolyn J. Brown is the Departmental Chair and a Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is auditory physiology with emphasis in electrically evoked potentials and cochlear implants.

Ishan Bhatt, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

ishan-bhatt@uiowa.edu

(319) 467-1860

Ishan Bhatt is an Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. His main interest is to identify the confluence of genetic and non-genetic risk factors influencing complex hearing disorders. His research program aims to create audiogenomic tools that can be used by healthcare providers to identify susceptible individuals well before they acquire permanent hearing health problems and to design individualized prevention and intervention strategies.

Jennifer Brodell, M.A., CCC-SLP

Clinical Assistant Professor

jennifer-divita@uiowa.edu

(319) 335-4841

Jennifer Brodell is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interests are pediatric speech and language disorders, autism, and interprofessional practice.

Karen Bryant, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Clinical Associate Professor

karen-bryant@uiowa.edu

(319) 335-8207

Karen Bryant is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interests are clinical supervision, dysphagia and, neurogenic speech disorders.

Inyong Choi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

inyong-choi@uiowa.edu

319-335-8725

Inyong Choi is an Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. His main interests are basic auditory-cognition research that investigates neural mechanisms normal hearing listeners use to understand speech-in-background noise and a more clinical line of research identifying neural markers and treatment options that will improve speech-in-noise processing by individuals with impaired hearing.

Philip Combiths, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor

philip-combiths@uiowa.edu

(319) 467-4432

Philip Combiths is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. His main interest is the diversity of language and multilingual language acquisition to better understand developmental speech and language impairments and to provide better clinical services to all individuals with communication disorders, including those within minoritized and understudied groups, through linguistically informed assessment and intervention tools and approaches.

Krista Davidson, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical Associate Professor

krista-davidson@uiowa.edu

(319) 335-8698

Krista Davidson is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) across the lifespan.

Eileen Finnegan, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor
Director of MA-SLP Studies

eileen-finnegan@uiowa.edu

319-335-8717

Eileen Finnegan is the Director of MA-SLP Studies and Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is laryngeal neurophysiology, specifically, the role of laryngeal/respiratory reflexes during phonation.

Stephanie Fleckenstein, Au.D., CCC-A

Clinical Associate Professor

stephanie-fleckenstein@uiowa.edu

(319) 335-8755

Stephanie a Clinical Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interests are hearing aids and aural rehabilitation, with a special interest in pediatric amplification.

Meaghan Foody, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical Assistant Professor

meaghan-foody@uiowa.edu

(319) 467-4274

Meaghan Foody is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interests are early literacy and language development and aural rehabilitation across the lifespan.

Shawn Goodman, Ph.D., CCC-A

Associate Professor

shawn-goodman@uiowa.edu

319-335-8700

Shawn Goodman is an Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. His main interests are auditory physiology, neuroscience, acoustics, and mechanics of the peripheral auditory system and how to apply that understanding in clinically useful ways.

Jean K. Gordon, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Associate Professor
Director of Ph.D. Studies

jean-k-gordon@uiowa.edu

319-335-8729

Jean K. Gordon is Director of PhD Studies and Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is language production in typical and disordered aging, especially in individuals with aphasia.

Kristi Hendrickson, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Assistant Professor

kristi-hendrickson@uiowa.edu

319-335-8701

Kristi Hendrickson is Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest focuses on how listeners and readers recognize spoken and written words, how they attach words to meaning, and how they use words earlier in a sentence to predict upcoming words. She and her research staff examine this process in a range of populations (children and adults, individuals with hearing loss, dual language learners).

Eun Kyung (Julie) Jeon, Ph.D., CCC-A

Clinical Assistant Professor

eunkyung-jeon@uiowa.edu

319-467-1476

Eun Kyung (Julie) Jeon is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is hearing amplification, both hearing aids and cochlear implants.

Danielle Kelsay, M.A., CCC-A

Clinical Associate Professor
Director of Clinical Programs, Audiology

danielle-kelsay@uiowa.edu

319-335-8754

Danielle Kelsay is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interests are hearing loss prevention, diagnostics, and aural rehabilitation.

Stewart McCauley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

stewart-mccauley@uiowa.edu

319-467-1669

Stewart McCauley is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. His main interest is cognitive mechanisms involved in language development, and in particular on how variation in these mechanisms shape differences in outcome (in both typically developing individuals and those with developmental language disorder).

Bob McMurray, Ph.D.

Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

bob-mcmurray@uiowa.edu

319-335-2408

Bob McMurray is a Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences. His main interest is on-line spoken word recognition and speech perception in typical adults and in people with language impairment and cochlear implants.

Jacob Michaelson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Associate Professor, Psychiatry

jacob-michaelson@uiowa.edu

(319) 335-8066

Jacob Michaelson is an Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry.

Louise Pinkerton, M.M., M.A., CCC-SLP

Clinical Assistant Professor

louise-pinkerton@uiowa.edu

319-467-3288

Louise Pinkerton is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is voice and upper airway disorders across the lifespan, including singing and performance voice; Gender affirming/transgender services; and voice perception and training perceptual skills.

Kelly Schmidt Clay, Ph.D.

Lecturer
Director of AuD Studies
Coordinator of 4th-year Outplacements

kelly-m-schmidt@uiowa.edu

319-384-4702

Kelly Schmidt Clay is the Director of AuD Studies, Coordinator of 4th-year Outplacements, and a Lecturer in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interests are Clinical Audiology, Medical Audiology, and Adult Aural Rehabilitation.

Anu Subramanian, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Clinical Professor
Director of Clinical Programs, Speech-Language Pathology

anu-subramanian@uiowa.edu

319-335-8694

Anu Subramanian is the Director of Clinical Programs in Speech-Language Pathology and a Clinical Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is clinical education in speech and language disorders in preschool children and fluency disorders across the lifespan.

Rich Tyler, Ph.D., CCC-A

Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Professor, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

rich-tyler@uiowa.edu

319-356-2471

Rich Tyler is Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department and in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Iowa. His main interests are audiovisual speech perception by the hearing impaired, rehabilitation, tinnitus, and use of hearing aids and cochlear implants.

Elizabeth Walker, Ph.D., CCC-A/SLP

Associate Professor

elizabeth-walker@uiowa.edu

319-353-8980

Elizabeth Walker is Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interest is better understanding how limited access to sound affects the development of children with hearing loss.

Yu-Hsiang Wu, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

yu-hsiang-wu@uiowa.edu

319-335-8728

Yu-Hsiang Wu is Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. His main interest is to improve hearing aid outcomes for older adults by identifying factors that facilitate or prevent hearing success.

Si On Yoon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

sion-yoon@uiowa.edu

(319) 467-1670

Si On Yoon is Assistant Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of Iowa. Her main interests are understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms that support conversation across the lifespan, including how interlocutors use language and how memory and language interact to support conversational processes in multiple populations (e.g., children, healthy younger and older adults, and individuals with amnesia or dementia).