Faculty

Faculty & Clinical Professionals

Name	Office Hours (CST) and Contact Info	Specialty
Christopher Apfelbach PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	47 Shevlin Hall 612-624-7001 apfel014@umn.edu	Voice disorders and physiology, vocal effort and fatigue, exercise science, neuromuscular physiology, neurodegenerative disabilities, occupational voice users, singing research, and positron emission tomography (PET)
Erin Bodner MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor	119G Shevlin Hall 612-624-8590 bodne004@umn.edu	Stuttering, neurodiversity-affirming communication, child language
Natalie Covington PhD, Assistant Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:45-4:45pm 51 Shevlin Hall 612-626-9688 nvcoving@umn.edu	Research with a focus on understanding and accounting for heterogeneity in cognitive recovery in individuals with a history of traumatic brain injury
Kerry Ebert PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies *Eligible to advise PhD students	In person office hours on Tuesdays from 12-1pm or by appointment either in person or on Zoom 215B Shevlin Hall 612-624-2528 kebert@umn.edu	Child language disorders, bilingualism, cognitive-linguistic interactions, service efficacy in children's speech-language disorders
Shaeleen Fagre AuD, CCC-A, Audiology Clinical Supervisor	Virtual or in-person office hours by appointment only. Please email Shaeleen Fagre to schedule. 119P Shevlin Hall 612-626-1935 sfagre@umn.edu	Hearing evaluations, hearing aid fitting and follow-up care, hearing conservation testing, custom earpieces
Marilyn Fairchild MA, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor	Virtual and In-person office hours by appointment. Please email Marilyn Fairchild to schedule. 22 Shevlin Hall 612-624-9314 fairc003@umn.edu	Gender affirming voice and communication, developmental and acquired communication disorders in children and adults, social communication, literacy, assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse individuals
Lizbeth Finestack PhD, Professor, Chair *Eligible to advise PhD students	Office hours by appointment only. 54 Shevlin Hall 612-626-8377 finestac@umn.edu	Child language, language intervention, developmental disabilities: developmental language disorder (DLD), autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and Fragile X syndrome
Mike Kurth AuD, PhD, CCC-A, Teaching Assistant Professor	49 Shevlin Hall 612-624-1010 kurth088@umn.edu	Audiology, Aural Rehabilitation, Hearing Aids, Outcome Measures, Clinical Process Improvement
Kate Lamb MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor	28 Shevlin Hall lambx096@umn.edu	Speech Sound Disorders, Developmental Language Disorders (DLD), and Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders (OMD)
Rebecca Lulai MA, CCC-SLP, Director of Clinical Programs in Speech-Language Pathology, Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Supervisor	By appointment at this link Becky Lulai Scheduling Link 215G Shevlin Hall 612-624-9027 lude0008@umn.edu	Cognitive rehabilitation and brain injury, stroke rehabilitation, selective mutism
Katlyn McGrattan PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	Office hours by appointment 225 Shevlin Hall 612-626-1185 kmcgratt@umn.edu	Pediatric aerodigestive physiology, dysphagia (swallowing disorders), medically fragile infants
Benjamin Munson PhD, Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	Office Hours by Appointment 105A Shevlin Hall 612-624-0304 munso005@umn.edu	Speech-sound development in children, childhood speech-sound disorders, the influence of social stereotypes on speech perception, speech production, speech perception, experimental methods in speech and language research, children's word learning
Peggy Nelson PhD, CCC-A, Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	215G Shevlin Hall 612-625-4569 nelso477@umn.edu	Audiology, hearing aid signal processing, hearing loss, psychoacoustics, speech perception
Melissa Polonenko PhD, Assistant Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	Mondays from 2-3pm and Wednesdays from 10-11am over Zoom 34 Shevlin Hall 612-624-2617 mpolonen@umn.edu	Audiology, electrophysiology, auditory development, hearing loss, multi-sensory processing, cochlear implants and hearing aids, binaural and spatial hearing, behavioral measures, outcome measurements
Jayanthi Sasisekaran PhD, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies *Eligible to advise PhD students	Virtual office hours by appointment. Please email Jayanthi Sasisekaran for the meeting link for office hours. 220B Shevlin Hall 612-626-6001 sasis001@umn.edu	Stuttering, psycholinguistic processes, dual-task performance, language-speech motor interface
Carrie Slag MS, CCC-SLP, SLP Clinical Supervisor	24 Shevlin Hall cslag@umn.edu	Adult neurogenic communication disorders, Parkinson's disease, head and neck cancer, and dysphagia
Matthew Winn AuD, PhD, Associate Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	Tues 10:30 - 11:30 AM in-person in Shevlin 36 or virtual office hours by appointment 36 Shevlin Hall 612-624-4733 mwinn@umn.edu	Audiology, cochlear implants, speech perception, listening effort, speech acoustics, pupillometry, binaural hearing
Kerry Witherell AuD, CCC-A, Director of Clinical Programs in Audiology, Audiology Clinical Supervisor	Virtual office hour appointments or in person by appointment 205A Shevlin Hall 612-301-1052 kwithere@umn.edu	Adult audiologic services, electrophysiology, implantable devices, cleft and craniofacial clinics, community hearing screenings
Yang Zhang PhD, Professor *Eligible to advise PhD students	Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-3:30pm 53 Shevlin Hall 612-624-7878 zhang470@umn.edu	Auditory neuroscience, speech and voice perception, learning and cognitive development, magnetoencephalography (MEG), event-related potentials (ERP), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Emeritus Faculty

Name
Patricia Broen PhD
Jane Carlstrom AuD, CCC-A, Clinical Specialist
Arlene Carney PhD
Samuel Haroldson MA
Kathryn Kohnert PhD
Karlind Moller PhD
Joe Reichle PhD
Charles Speaks PhD
Robert Schlauch PhD
Peter Watson PhD