Dr. Elise Davis-McFarland is a former president of the American Speech Language Association and an ASHA Fellow. She served as a member of ASHA’s Board of Ethics, and several other ASHA committees. She began her career as a speech-language pathologist in North Carolina and from there went on to become a college professor, graduate program director and college vice president.  Elise has provided ethics lectures and workshops both nationally and internationally, and she is very interested in the ethics of international practice. 

Her passion for travel has taken her to all 50 states, six of the seven continents and over 20 countries abroad.  Her travels have also been related to her professional interests and expertise. She taught speech-language pathology to undergraduate students in South Africa, consulted with speech-language pathologists in Rwanda, China, and the Philippines, and served on an ASHA committee that developed a speech-language pathology program for the University of Guyana in South America. She has received numerous awards including Honors of the South Carolina Speech-Language and Hearing Association.