Edie Hapner
PhD, CCC-SLP
Edie Hapner
PhD, CCC-SLP
Edie Hapner is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Co-Director of the UAB Voice Center, and Director of Speech and Hearing. Dr Hapner has championed inter-professional care in the treatment of voice disorders through her develop of three marquee inter-professional voice care programs, the Emory Voice Center at Emory University in Atlanta, GA 2003-2015, and the University of Southern California’s USC Voice Center in Los Angeles, CA, 2016-2020 and now the UAB Voice Center, March, 2020. Dr Hapner has served on the ASHA Board of Directors, was Coordinator for the ASHA Voice Special Interest Group, the AAOHNS Guidelines Committee for the Treatment of Dysphonia, the AAOHNS Voice Committee 2018-2020, Convention Chair for the ASHA 2020 convention, and serves on the voice committee for the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics. She has published with over 50 peer reviewed papers, multiple invited chapters, is co-editor of Voice and Voice Disorders, Clinical Case Studies edition 4 and 5, and has developed a video teaching tool for Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing. She developed an online voice curriculum for Medbridge Inc to train speech language pathologist to treat a variety of voice disorders through inviting noted experts in the field to develop coordinated training modules. Her research and clinical passion is in aging voice and she has co-developed an evidence based voice therapy tool (PhoRTE), to treat voice problems associated with presbyphonia. Dr Hapner received three prestigious fellowships in 2018- Distinguished Fellow in the National Academy of Practice, Associate Fellow in the American Laryngological Association and Fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association. Unlimited
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