Board Elections

I am Professor and Chair of the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center. In this position, I manage a multi-million-dollar academic and clinical budget, oversee four on-campus clinics that provide over 10,000 services per year with an annual gross revenue of approximately $1 million, and have fostered the research growth of the department from essentially no extramural support to millions of dollars. Additionally, I manage the dissemination and investment of all scholarships and funds. In my 14 years as Chair, our department has never finished the fiscal year in the red, except for the COVID years. Using a portion of our clinical revenues each year, I work with my leadership team to budget purchases of state-of-the-art equipment to support our clinics, classrooms, and research labs, provide travel for 33 faculty to conferences, fund start-up expenses for new faculty, and support stipends for graduate assistants. In the past four years, I have worked closely with the university to design and implement the renovation of approx. 60,000 square feet of space for our department.

As Chair, I mentor 13 tenure track or tenured faculty, 20 non tenure track (clinical) faculty, 18 staff members, and oversee four (4) degree programs totaling approximately 250 students. In addition to my administrative duties, I have maintained an active and productive research laboratory, successfully advised many doctoral students (AuD. and Ph.D.), and provided service to the university and profession, including multiple leadership positions.

I received my B.A. in English from University of North Carolina in 1993, my M.A. in Audiology from University of Tennessee in 1995, and my Ph.D. in Hearing Science (Mentor: Craig Champlin) from University of Texas-Austin in 1999.