Announcements
- Congratulations to doctoral student Dale Summers who received a 'best poster' award at the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) Science Expo!
- Another congratulations to master's thesis student Haley Bouchard who was awarded the 2022 Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences Conference Student Fellowship!
- Congratulations to master's thesis student Haley Bouchard who is a recipient of ASHA's competitive SPARC award (Students Preparing for Academic and Research Careers) for 2022-2023!
- Kristie Spencer will given an invited talk at ASHA in November 2022, along with co-presenters Dr. Edy Strand and Dr. Lauren Bislick entitled, "Pearls of Wisdom in the Management of Motor Speech Disorders: Reframing the Classics."
- Congratulations to doctoral student Dale Summers who was awarded a position on the highly competitive 2022-2023 Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS) training grant! Trainees receive a year of funding as well as mentored interdisciplinary research training and opportunities. Dale will represent our lab and SPHSC Department in a multidisciplinary cohort of 18 trainees across UW and Montana State University.
- Doctoral student Dale Summers was awarded the UW Retirement Association Patricia Dougherty 2022 Fellowship in Aging!
- Doctoral student Tamar Nir was awarded the 2021-2022 GSEE Diversity Fellowship which provides a year of funding!
- Doctoral student Dale Summers and Kristie Spencer were awarded ASHA's 2021 Meritorious Poster Submission for their conference poster, "Predicting cognitive decline in Parkinson disease: The Dual-Syndrome Hypothesis".
- Kristie Spencer gave an invited talk at the 2021 ASHA conference: Motor speech and cognitive disorders in Parkinson's disease: Current evidence and practice recommendations. Washington D.C.
- Kristie Spencer, colleague Jacqueline Daniels, and doctoral student Tamar Nir recently published an invited continuing education article on Becoming a Medical SLP. Available at www.speechpathology.com (article 20494).
- Kristie Spencer was an invited member of the NIH NeuroRehab Common Data Elements Communication Subgroup.
- Kristie Spencer and Jacqueline Daniels, M.S. are series editors for the textbooks, Primary Progressive Aphasia and Other Frontotemporal Dementias and Person-centered Memory and Communication interventions for Dementia and authors/editors of the textbook, Medical Setting Considerations for the SLP through Plural Publishing.
Lab Members
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Tamar Nir, M.S., CCC-SLP Doctoral student
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Dale Summers, M.S., CCC-SLP Doctoral student
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Haley Bouchard, B.S. Master's thesis student
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Sameyah Manzon-Vun, B.S. Master's student volunteer |
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Gillian Elder, B.S. Master's student research assistant Former undergrad volunteer |
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Benjamin Wright, B.S. Master's student research assistant |
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Recent graduate and current collaborator: Jessica Amaral, M.S., CFY-SLP
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Recent graduate and current collaborator: Katie Brown, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Now an Assistant Professor at Augustana College! Dissertation Project: The relationship between dysarthria and cognition in idiopathic Parkinson's disease Chosen as a 2018 Tillman Scholar; Recipient of the 2018 University of Washington Retirement Association (UWRA) Scholarship; Recipient of the 2019-2020 UWRA Fellowship |
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Recent Graduate and current collaborator: Manisha Gore, M.S., CCC-SLP |
Doctoral and Master's Thesis Alumni
2021
Katherine Brown, Doctoral Degree, Awarded UWRA Fellowship and Scholarship, Pat Tillman Foundation Scholar
Jessica Amaral, Master's Thesis
2020
Manisha Gore, Master's Thesis
2018
Catherine Cornell, Master's Thesis
Clare Friedlander, Master's Thesis
2017
Mallory Dawson, Master's Thesis
Jennifer Smasne (Paul), Master's Thesis, Recipient of ASHA's Students Preparing for Academic & Research Careers Award and ANCDS Conference Fellowship Award
2015
Susannah Balestracci, Master's Thesis
2014
Phillip Weir-Mayta, Doctoral Degree, Awarded UWRA Fellowship and Scholarship
Ashley France, Master's Thesis
2013
Caitlin Sears, Master's Thesis
2012
Erika Hutchison, Master's Thesis, Recipient of Plural Publishing Research Award
2011
Elizabeth Horwitz, Master's Thesis
2010
Kristin France, Master's Thesis
2009
Audra McAllen, Master's Thesis
Janelle Sanchez, Master's Thesis
2008
Emily Blond, Master's Thesis
Holly Kavalier, Master's Thesis (Co-Mentor)
Kelly Morgan, Master's Thesis, Recipient of ASHA's Students Preparing for Academic & Research Careers Award
2007
Dana Slocomb, Master's Thesis
2006
Emily Johnson, Master's Thesis
Erin Wiley, Master's Thesis