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Alex Johnson | Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin | Brian J. Fligor | Alina de la Paz | Natalie Fernandez-Roque
 Alex Johnson
Biografía en Español
Alex Johnson, PhD, is President of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and Professor and Chair of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. His work focuses on the areas of stuttering, adult and child language disorders, and literacy. He currently directs a research and service program at the university called "Bridges to Literacy for High Risk Children." He was recently appointed as a Special Program Advisor to the Merrill Palmer Institute and the Skillman Center for Children at Wayne State. Prior to joining the faculty at Wayne State, Dr. Johnson served as the Director of Speech-Language Sciences and Disorders in the Department of Neurology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Dr. Johnson has publications in the areas of language disorders in adults and poststroke aphasia, including two books, Vocal Arts Medicine (1993) with Michael Benninger and Barbara Jacobson and Medical Speech-Language Pathology: A Practitioner's Guide (1998) with Barbara Jacobson.
Prior to being elected as President of ASHA, Dr. Johnson served as ASHA's Vice President for Professional Practices in Speech-Language Pathology (2000-2002). He is a Fellow of ASHA, one of the highest honors bestowed by the association in recognition of professional or scientific achievements and contributions to the professions. He received his BA and MA degrees from Kent State University and his PhD degree from Case Western Reserve University.
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 Brenda Lonsbury-Martin
Biografía en Español
Brenda Lonsbury-Martin's Statement (Exposición en Español)
Brenda L. Lonsbury-Martin, PhD, is a Research Professor in the Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Surgery, at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California. Her research interests include the early detection of hearing loss using physiological measures of ear function, basic mechanisms of noise-induced hearing loss, the role of the cochlear efferent system in protecting the ear from noise damage, and cochlear plasticity. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Lonsbury-Martin is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a member of a number of professional societies that represent research in the basic and clinical sciences of hearing. Dr. Lonsbury-Martin also serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals in the hearing science and audiology areas and on the review panels of several private foundations that fund research on hearing loss and tinnitus. She is the former Chief Staff Officer for Science and Research at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
She received her BA from the University of Victoria, her Masters in neuroscience/cell biology from the University of Oregon Medical School, and her PhD in biopsychology from Oregon Health and Science University. She also completed postdoctoral fellowship training in psychobiology and in physiology and biophysics at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Washington, respectively.
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 Brian Fligor
Biografía en Español
Brian Fligor's Statement (Exposición en Español)
Brian J. Fligor, ScD, is Director of Diagnostic Audiology at Children's Hospital Boston and Instructor in Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School. An undergraduate background in biomedical engineering and a brief stint as an aspiring rock guitarist in a local Boston band led Dr. Fligor to pursue a career in audiology. After acknowledging a much greater affinity for people than for computers, and finding an appalling rate of acceptance that noise-induced hearing loss "is just a fact of life" for serious musicians, Dr. Fligor found himself at Boston University pursuing a doctoral degree in a clinical research track in audiology. After completing his clinical fellowship at Children's Hospital in Boston in 2002, he stayed on as a postdoctoral fellow, seeing patients and conducting research studies on the causes of acquired hearing loss.
Dr. Fligor's publications include a study of output levels of headphones and the potential risk to hearing from their use, and identification of specific risk factors for hearing loss in a select group of critically ill newborns. Upon completion of the postdoctoral fellowship, he was honored with a promotion to Director of Diagnostic Audiology at Children's Hospital Boston. He has been interviewed about his research on the use of iPods and other MP3 devices and hearing loss, appearing on NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News, and in articles published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Rolling Stone Magazine.
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 Alina de la Paz
Biografía en Español
Alina de la Paz's Statement (Exposición en Español)
Alina de la Paz is the Executive Director and owner of The Center for Bilingual Speech and Language Disorders, Inc. With her focus on pediatric populations, Ms. de la Paz has developed specialized assessment and treatment approaches used with bilingual populations to assure appropriate linguistic assessment and treatment for this population (Two Way Bilingual Assessment: TBAM and Two Way Bilingual Intervention techniques: TBIT). In working with the deaf and hard of hearing, she has incorporated the TBIT approach to facilitate multilingualism as well.
Ms. De la Paz has mentored, trained and facilitated learning for hundreds of speech-language pathologists. She has served her professional associations in many capacities and has been honored by many organizations for her cutting edge methods and dedication including the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA) Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Multicultural Affairs. She is the author and recipient of the ASHA's Office of Multicultural Affairs Grant: Bilingual/ Multicultural Clinical Training in Speech-Language Pathology. She has also received the Clinician of the Year Award from the Florida Speech-Language-Hearing Association (FLASHA), the Honors of the Association from Miami Association of Communications Specialists (MACS) and the Silver Medal Award from Miami Today for impacting her Community of South Florida. She was also appointment by Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services, under the Clinton Administration, as a Commissioner for the National Commission on Allied Health: Division of Associated Dental and Public Health Professions. She is a published author and an international speaker providing workshops in English and Spanish in her area of expertise.
Born in Cuba and emigrated to the United Sates at the age of two, Ms. De la Paz completed her undergraduate and graduate work in speech-language pathology at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
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Natalie Fernandez-Roque
Biografía en Español
Natalie Fernandez-Roque's Statement (Exposición en Español)
Natalie Fernandez-Roque, AuD, was born in Havana, Cuba and has resided in Miami, Florida since 1961. Dr. Fernandez-Roque is co-owner of Miami Hearing and Speech Center which has been located at Mercy Hospital for the past thirty years.
At Miami Hearing and Speech Center, Dr. Fernandez-Roque provides all diagnostic Audiological services with a special interest in Vestibular disorders and rehabilitation. In her private practice, Dr. Fernandez-Roque is very involved in providing amplification for both adults and pediatric patients.
Dr. Fernandez-Roque received both her MA in audiology and speech-language pathology and Doctorate in Audiology (AuD) from the University of Florida.
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