Department of Clinical Dietetics/Nutrition

CATHERINE CONNELL, MPM, RD, Instructor. Computer software development in food service systems management.
ANDREA (KIM) CRAWFORD, MS, RD, Instructor and Coordinator of Clinical Education. Nutritional interventions in athletic training and rehabilitation.
JUDITH DODD, MS, RD, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Nutrition and women's health and nutrition intervention in the community.
DIANE HELSEL, MA, RD, Clinical Instructor. Nutrition intervention for children with developmental disabilities.
CHARLES HOLLINGER, MEd, Instructor. Food and beverage sensory evaluation and training; new food product development.
DEBORAH LUFFEY, MS, RD, LD, Adjunct Instructor. Nutrition intervention and education for health promotion and disease prevention.
LISA MCDERMOTT, MS, RD, CDE, Clinical Instructor. Nutrition intervention in renal disease and diabetes mellitus.
REGINA ONDA, PhD, RD, Acting Department Chair and Assistant Professor. Clinical dietetic practice with emphasis on nutrition intervention strategies in disease prevention and health promotion.

Department of Communication Science and Disorders

BRUCE R. BAKER, AM, Adjunct Associate Professor. Augmentative communication; semantic compaction.
MARLENE BEHRMANN, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Cognitive neuroscience; interactive processing in perception and attention.
THOMAS CAMPBELL, PhD, CCC-SLP, Associate Professor. Child language, acquired communication disorders in children.
ELLEN R. COHN, PhD, CCC-SLP, Clinical Assistant Professor. Cleft Palate and craniofacial disorders; rhetoric and communication.
CHRISTINE A. DOLLAGHAN, PhD, CCC-SLP, Associate Professor. Child language development and disorders; lexical acquisition and processing in normally developing and language-impaired children; language production and comprehension following pediatric brain injury.
PATRICK J. DOYLE, PhD, CCC-SLP, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Promoting generalized language use in aphasic adults; communicative interventions in apraxia of speech.
JOHN DURRANT, PhD, CCC-A, Professor. Normative attributes of auditory evoked potentials and applications to diagnostic and clinical utilities; clinical application of otacoustic emissions.
DIANE EGER, PhD, CCC-SLP, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Public schools issues; efficacy of service delivery models with school-aged students.
DAVID EIBLING, MD, Associate Professor. Otolaryngology, head and neck surgery; primary appointment, School of Medicine.
ELLEN ESTOMIN, MA, CCC-SLP, Clinical Instructor.
HEIDI FELDMAN, MD, PhD, Associate Professor. Development and behavior in children; primary appointment, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine.
DAVIDA FROMM, PhD, CCC-SLP, Clinical Assistant Professor. Neurogenic disorders of language in adults; language and cognition in normal aging; treatment efficacy.
JUDITH GRAYHACK, PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor. Voice motor control and learning; effects of altering auditory input on voice fundamental frequency; dysphagia in adults; predicting aspiration from symptoms of dysphagia.
LAURA HAIBECK, MA, CCC-SLP, Clinical Instructor.
CHARLOTTE JOHNSON, PhD, CCC-SLP, Clinical Instructor.
MALCOLM R. MCNEIL, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-NCD, Professor and Chair. Neurogenic speech and language disorders with emphasis in information processing (attention and resource allocation) and comprehension and in the assessment and differential diagnosis of aphasia; aphasia test design and development; treatment efficacy for aphasia, apraxia, and dysarthria; mechanisms of language translation into speech movements using perceptual, acoustic, and physiologic measures.
CHERYL MESSICK, PhD, CCC-SLP, Clinical Assistant Professor. Child language disorders and children with learning disabilities.
ROBIN METZLER, MA, CCC-SLP, Clinical Instructor.
ELAINE A. MORMER, MS, CCC-A, Clinical Instructor.
THOMAS MURRY, PhD, CCC-SLP, Associate Professor. The care of the performing voice and voice disorders; primary appointment, Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine.
ROBERT NEBES, PhD, Professor. Semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease; cognitive slowing in Alzheimer's disease and depression; cognitive aspects of normal aging; primary appointment, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine.
CATHERINE V. PALMER, PhD, CCC-A, Assistant Professor. Perception of sound as a function of physical attributes ("real ear measurements"); long-term influence of auditory deprivation at all levels of the adult system.
SHELIA R. PRATT, PhD, CCC-A/SLP, Assistant Professor. Habilitation of communication skills of hearing-impaired infants and children; effects of otitis media in infancy on the development of auditory and auditory dependent skills; infant speech perception.
DIANE SABO, PhD, CCC-A, Assistant Professor. Identification and assessment of hearing loss in infants, in particular, infants at risk for hearing loss; clinical application otoacoustic emissions and auditory evoked potentials; primary appointment, Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine.
SUSAN SHAIMAN, PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor. Sensorimotor coordination of respiratory, phonatory, and articulatory systems during speech productions; effect of disordered coordination on speech production.
ROBERT SKWARECKI, PhD, CCC-SLP, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Imaging techniques (endoscopy, videofluoroscopy, ultrasound) and quantitative measurement methods in the treatment of dysphonia and dysphagia.
LINDA SUSTICH, MA, CCC-SLP, Speech and Hearing Specialist II.
EVELYN TALBOTT, PhD, Associate Professor. Epidemiology and public health; primary appointment, Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health.
CONNIE A. TOMPKINS, PhD, CCC-SLP, BC-NCD, Professor. Nature, generality, prediction, and management of communicative changes resulting from right hemisphere brain damage; other adult neurologic communicative disorders; cognitive bases of communication disorders; psychosocial impact of neurological conditions; communication and aging.
KIMBERLY UCCELLINI, MA, CCC-A, Speech and Hearing Specialist II.
BARBARA VENTO, MS, CCC-A, Clinical Instructor. Clinical application of otoacoustic emissions and maturation of the human auditory system.
J. SCOTT YARUSS, PhD, CCC-SLP, Assistant Professor. Development of fluency and phonology disorders; diagnosis and treatment of children and adults who stutter; measurement of attitudes, disability, and handicap in individuals who stutter; assessment of treatment outcomes.

Emergency Medicine Program

DEBRA LEJEUNE, Lecturer.
GREGG MARGOLIS, MS, Clinical Instructor and Vice-Program Director.
TOM PLATT, MEd, Lecturer.
WALT A. STOY, PhD, Associate Professor and Program Director.

Department of Health Information Management

MERVAT ABDELHAK, PhD, RRA, Department Chair and Associate Professor. Health information systems/medical informatics, outcome research, computer-based patient record.
PATRICIA ANANIA-FIROUZAN, MSIS, RRA, Assistant Professor. Computer applications in health care; use of microcomputers for educational training; computer-based patient record; classification systems.
S. ALLEN CONDELUCI, PhD, Adjunct Professor
ROBERT G. FILBY, PhD, FACME, Adjunct Professor
CHARLES FRIEDMAN, PhD, Professor. Development of information resources to augment clinical reasoning, problem solving, and learning; methods for evaluation in medical informatics and the application of these methods to the study of medical information resources; the role of visual information in clinical reasoning and problem solving; design, evaluation, and implementation of computer-based tools for medical education and assessment, with an emphasis on clinical simulations; and organizational innovation and change in academic medical centers.
CHRISTOPHER HARNER, Associate Professor.
JOHN INNOCENTI, MBA, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Health care administration; systems analysis; cost containment; and reimbursement strategies.
JANE MAZZONI-MADDIGAN, DrPH, RRA, Assistant Professor. Human resource management; quality assessment and evaluation research.
WILBUR MCCOY OTTO, JD, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Health law; professional liability standards; litigation; and risk management.
BAMBANG PARMANTO, PhD, Assistant Professor. Neural networks; medical informatics; database and information retrieval; hospital information systems; outcome prediction; computer-based patient records; telemedicine.
WESLEY M. ROHRER III, PhD, MBA, Assistant Professor. Evaluation research methodologies; human resource management and leadership theory; policy analysis in health care and long-term care.
ELAINE RUBINSTEIN, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Statistics and research methodology.
MELISSA SAUL, MS, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Electronic medical record systems; data analysis and statistical methods for managed care and clinical information technology.
MYRNA SILVERMAN, PhD, Associate Professor. Community-based geriatric assessment units; health care behavior of older adults; Alzheimer's disease caregiver support groups; social care units for dementia; issues relating to caregivers or frail elders; minority health.
MEG STANGER, MS, PT, PCS, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Director of Physical and Occupational Therapies at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Rehabilitation Institute of Pittsburgh.
AUGUST TURANO, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor. Graphical user interfaces; data warehouse; clinical data extraction and searching; networking; web server/page development with CGI.
VALERIE M. WATZLAF, PhD, RRA, Associate Professor. Breast cancer epidemiology; disability assessment database; long-term care; quality assessment.
SHARON B. WINTERS, MS, RRA, CTR, Adjunct Assistant Professor. Tumor/cancer registries and database management systems.

Department of Occupational Therapy

CARMELA BATTAGLIA, MS, OTR/L, Assistant Professor, Director of Entry-Level Education, and Clinical Education Coordinator. Effectiveness of occupational therapy fieldwork/learning styles of students; fine motor coordination in children; epidemiology of chronic pediatric disorders having unknown etiology.
LYNETTE S. CHANDLER, PhD, PT, Associate Professor. Effectiveness of neurorehabilitation interventions for neonates and young children.
MARGO B. HOLM, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, ABDA, Professor and Director of Post-Professional Education. Outcomes research in adult practice areas, disability analysis, development and use of universal data systems.
JOAN ROGERS, PhD, FAOTA, OTR/L, Professor and Chairman. Functional assessment and rehabilitation of older adults with physical, cognitive, and emotional impairments; clinical reasoning of rehabilitation professionals.

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