The role of the Pathways program is to mentor early-career clinical scientists in developing strong foundations for independent research careers.
2023 Participants
Protégés
- Katelyn Berg, Vanderbilt University
- James Borders, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Liz Bouvier, McGill University
- Brianne Chiappetta, Northwestern University
- Alexander Choi-Tucci, University of California, Irvine
- Sharice Clough, Vanderbilt University
- Tiana Cowan, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Victoria Diedrichs, The Ohio State University
- Julia Drouin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Yao Du, University of Southern California
- Marianne Elmquist, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Saul Frankford, Boston University
- Micah Hirsch, Florida State University
- Amy Kemp, United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- Yookyung Kim, Arizona State University
- Marc Maffei, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Mariana Mendes Bahia, Northwestern University
- Hilary Miller, Boston University
- Kristen Nunn, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Maura O'Fallon, Temple University
- Juliana Ronderos, Boston University
- Cara Sauder, University of Washington
- Matthew Sayers, Temple University
- Michael Scimeca, Boston University
- Zoë Thijs, Molloy University
- Austin Thompson, Florida State University
- Nicole Tomassi, Boston University
- Danyang Wang, University of California - Irvine
- Hasini Weerathunge, Boston University
Mentors
- Nancy Brady, University of Kansas
- Kate Bunton, The University of Arizona
- Giselle Carnaby, The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- Anny Castilla-Earls, University of Houston
- Joe Duffy, Mayo Clinic
- Heather Harris Wright, East Carolina University
- Ashwini Joshi, University of Houston
- Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, University of Iowa
- Joneen Lowman, University of Kentucky
- Ignatius Nip, San Diego State University
- Jessica Richardson, University of New Mexico
- Li Sheng, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Audra Sterling, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sofia Vallila Rohter, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Andrea Warner-Czyz, The University of Texas at Dallas
Funding Agency Representatives
- Sharon Moss, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Alberto Rivera-Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH
2022 Participants
Protégés
- Nahar Albudoor, Gallaudet University
- Jamie Boster, Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Manaswita Dutta, Rush University Medical Center
- Anna Ehrhorn, University of South Carolina
- Pooja Gandhi, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute/University Health Network
- Felicidad Garcia, Temple University
- Hope Gerlach-Houck, Western Michigan University
- Nichole Houle, Boston University
- Linna Jingyu Jin, University of Washington
- Roha Mariam Kaipa, Oklahoma State University
- Leslie Kokotek, University of Cincinnati
- Kari Lien, The University of Utah
- Brittany Manning, Weill Cornell Medicine
- Katie Marks, Boston University
- Brandon Merritt, Indiana University/The University of Texas at El Paso
- Avinash Mishra, Sacred Heart University
- Kenneth Morse, West Virginia University
- Danielle Moss, The University of Kansas
- Gemma Moya Gale, Long Island University
- Jennifer Oshita, University of Vermont/Larner College of Medicine
- Yalian Pei, University of Georgia
- Amy Peterson, Florida State University
- Dillon Pruett, Vanderbilt University
- Erin Reedy, Northwestern University
- Gabriella Reynolds, Long Island University Post
- Kirsten Hannig Russell, The University of Utah
- Claire Selin, The Pennsylvania State University
- Caroline Spencer, Boston University
- Xianhui Wang, University of California, Irvine
- Camille Wynn, Utah State University
Mentors
- Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer, The University of Utah
- Steven Barlow, University of Nebraska
- Lena Caesar, Loyola University Maryland
- Kathryn Drager, The Pennsylvania State University
- Carol Scheffner Hammer, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Stacy Harnish, The Ohio State University
- Shelly Jo Kraft, Wayne State University
- Jennifer Lentz, Indiana University
- Teresa Lever, University of Missouri
- Susan Nittrouer, University of Florida
- Sona Patel, Seton Hall University
- Tyler Perrachione, Boston University
- Sonja Pruitt-Lord, San Diego State University
- Holly Storkel, The University of Kansas
- Krystal Werfel, Boys Town National Research Hospital
Funding Agency Representatives
- Nancy Minghetti, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Alberto Rivera-Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH
2021 Participants
Protégés
- Jonet Artis, New York University
- Emily Braun, Boston University
- Curtiss Chapman, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
- Beatriz de Diego-Lazaro, Midwestern University
- Abigail Delehanty, Duquesne University
- Cara Donohue, University of Florida
- Jacob Feldman, Vanderbilt University
- Ishanti Gangopadhyay, Indiana University–Bloomington
- Teresa Girolamo, University of Connecticut
- Abigail Haenssler, East Carolina University
- Yuan He, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Alison Hessling, Baylor University
- Erik Jorgensen, The University of Iowa
- Mara Kapsner-Smith, University of Washington
- Vishnu KK Nair, West Virginia University
- Molly Knigge, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Lakshmi Kollara Sunil, University of Central Florida
- Helen Long, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Lauren Madhoun, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
- Stephanie McMillen, Syracuse University
- Danika Pfeiffer, Johns Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Ron Pomper, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Yina M Quique, Northwestern University
- Jessica Riccardi, Case Western Reserve University
- Elizabeth Roepke, Purdue University
- Hannah Rowe, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Megan Schliep, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Casey Taliancich-Klinger, The University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Kathryn Wiseman, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Alexandra Zezinka Durfee, Johns Hopkins University
Mentors
- Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer, The University of Utah
- Margaret Blake, University of Houston
- Henrike Blumenfeld, San Diego State University
- Kate Bunton, The University of Arizona
- Howard Goldstein, University of South Florida
- Mira Goral, Lehman College, CUNY
- Shelley Gray, Arizona State University
- Maria Grigos, New York University
- Stacy Harnish, The Ohio State University
- Sara Kover, University of Washington
- Emily Lund, Texas Christian University
- Rhiannon Luyster, Emerson College
- Nancy Scherer, Arizona State University
- Beth Strickland, Purdue University
- Krystal Werfel, University of South Carolina
Funding Agency Representatives
- Nancy Minghetti, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Alberto Rivera-Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH
2020 Participants
Protégés
- Defne Abur, Boston University
- Katie Bangert, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Lauren Baron, University of South Carolina
- Alisa Baron, The University of Rhode Island
- Jessica Chan, University of South Carolina
- Claire Cordella, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Sarah Grace Dalton, Marquette University
- Marziye Eshghi, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Laura Friedman, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Samantha Gustafson, University of Utah
- Stephanie Gutierrez, Northwestern University
- Eve Higby, California State University, East Bay
- Jourdan Holder, Vanderbilt University
- Hana Kim,East Carolina University
- Marika King, Utah State University
- Thea Knowles, University at Buffalo
- Boji Lam, University of North Texas
- Marion Leaman, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Nell Maltman, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Meaghan McKenna, University of South Florida
- Shae Morgan, University of Louisville
- Claudia Peñaloza, Boston University
- Kevin Pitt, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Mollie Romano, Florida State University
- Erin Smolak, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Kaila Stipancic, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Pumpki Su, University of Delaware
- Lauren Tabor Gray, Phil Smith Neuroscience Institute
- Yihsin Tai, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Alicia Vose, University of Florida
Mentors
- Mary Alt, University of Arizona
- Heather Bonilha, Medical University of South Carolina
- Anny Castilla-Earls, University of Houston
- Dirk den Ouden, University of South Carolina
- Aimee Dietz, University of Cincinnati
- Joe Duffy, Mayo Clinic
- Liza Finestack, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Vincent Gracco, Haskins Laboratories
- Shelley Gray, Arizona State University
- Carol Scheffner Hammer, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Ann Kaiser, Vanderbilt University
- Nadine Martin, Temple University
- Mick McNeil, University of Pittsburgh
- Andrea Warner-Czyz, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Fan-Gang Zeng, University of California Irvine
Funding Agency Representatives
- Nancy Minghetti, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Alberto Rivera–Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH
2019 Participants
Protégés
- A. Alexandra Basilakos, University of South Carolina
- Nichol Castro, University of Washington
- Natalie Covington, Vanderbilt University
- Haley Dresang, University of Pittsburgh
- Mackenzie Fama, Towson University
- Lisa Fitton, University of South Carolina
- Andrea Ford, University of Minnesota
- Valerie Freeman, Oklahoma State University
- Sabrina Horvath, Boston University
- Aryn Kamerer, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Elaine Kearney, Boston University
- Kelsey Klein, University of Iowa
- Hannah Krimm, Vanderbilt University
- Elaine Kwok, University of Western Ontario
- Elizabeth Madden, Florida State University
- Ramesh Muralimanohar, Oregon Health & Science University, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR), VA RR&D
- Deena Schwen Blackett, The Ohio State University
- Sanjana Shellikeri, University of Toronto
- Xigrid Soto, University of South Florida
- Frits van Brenk, University at Buffalo
- Sarah Villard, Boston University
Mentors
- Samira Anderson, University of Maryland
- Steven Barlow, University of Nebraska
- Pelagie Beeson, University of Arizona
- Kathy Bourque, University of Kansas
- Carolyn Brown, University of Iowa
- Gayle DeDe, Temple University
- Natalie Douglas, Central Michigan University
- Lizbeth Finestack, University of Minnesota
- Jean Gordon, University of Iowa
- Vince Gracco, Haskins Laboratories
- Shelley Gray, Arizona State University
- Rebecca Hunting Pompon, University of Delaware
- Mary Kennedy, Chapman University
- Swathi Kiran, Boston University
- Nadine Martin, Temple University
- Ryan McCreery, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Malcolm McNeil, University of Pittsburgh
- Emily Plowman, University of Florida
- Laida Restrepo, Arizona State University
- Carol Scheffner Hammer, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Andrea Warner-Czyz, The University of Texas at Dallas
Funding Agency Representatives
- Nancy Minghetti, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Alberto Rivera–Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH
2018 Participants
Protégés
- Ashley Adams, University of California, Irvine
- Rebecca Alper, Temple University
- Carly Barbon, University of Toronto/Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
- Will Bologna, Oregon Health and Science University
- Heather Campbell, New York University
- Julie Feuerstein, Johns Hopkins University/Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Paul Fillmore, Baylor University
- Tyson Harmon, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Keiko Ishikawa, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Eun Kyung Jeon, University of Utah
- Bruna Mussoi, Kent State University
- Sara Nowell, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Jessica Obermeyer, Temple University
- Arnold Olszewski, Miami University of Ohio
- Stacey Rimikis, New York University
- Mara Steinberg Lowe, New York University
- Evan Usler, Boston University/MGH Institute of Health Professions
Mentors
- Suzanne Adlof, University of South Carolina
- Curtis Billings, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, VA RR&D
- Stephen Camarata, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Edward Conture, Vanderbilt University
- Lizbeth Finestack, University of Minnesota
- Sandra Gordon–Salant, University of Maryland
- Karen Helfer, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Katherine Hutcheson, University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Jacqueline Laures–Gore, Georgia State University
- Tracy Love, San Diego State University
- Jamie Reilly, Temple University
- Raúl Rojas, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Cynthia Thompson, Northwestern University
- Rahul Shrivastav, University of Georgia
- Heather Wright, East Carolina University
- Paul Yoder, Vanderbilt University
- Yana Yunusova, University of Toronto
Funding Agency Representatives
- Nancy Minghetti, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Alberto Rivera–Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, NIH
2017 Participants
Protégés
- Crystle Alonzo, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Andrea Barton-Hulsey, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Dahye Choi, University of South Alabama
- Meghan Davidson, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Lindsay DeVries, University of Washington
- Mitchell Frye, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Kyomi Gregory, Salus University
- Ramesh Kaipa, Oklahoma State University
- Lisa Kopf, University of Iowa
- Breanna Krueger, University of Kansas
- Jiali Liang, Pennsylvania State University
- Katlyn McGrattan, Northwestern University
- Victoria McKenna, Boston University
- Amy Pace, University of Washington
- Victoria Scharp, Idaho State University
- Brielle Stark, University of South Carolina
- Sharlene Wilson Ottley, The River School
Mentors
- Steven Barlow, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Cathy Binger, University of New Mexico
- Carolyn Brown, University of Iowa
- Adam Buchwald, New York University
- Courtney Byrd, University of Texas at Austin
- Laura DeThorne, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
- Jan Edwards, University of Maryland–College Park
- Lizbeth Finestack, University of Minnesota
- Howard Goldstein, University of South Florida
- Sharon Kujawa, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School
- Edwin Maas, Temple University
- Daryush Mehta, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
- Rita Patel, Indiana University
- Jonathan Preston, Syracuse University
- Nan Bernstein Ratner, University of Maryland–College Park
- Audra Sterling, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Julie Washington, Georgia State University
Funding Agency Representatives
- Nancy Minghetti, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Alberto Rivera-Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
2016 Participants
Protégés
- Julie Case, New York University
- Ai Leen Choo, University of Michigan
- Robin Criter, Western Michigan University
- Angela Dietsch, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Nicole Etter, Pennsylvania State University
- Michelle Flippin, University of Rhode Island
- Anna Eva Hallin, New York University
- Elizabeth Heller Murray, Boston University
- Elaine Hitchcock, Montclair State University
- Sarah Kennett, Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Jaime Lee, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
- Sarah Leopold, The Ohio State University
- Jennifer Lundine, The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Rachel Mulheren, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital
- Ashwini Namasivayam, University of Toronto
- Kathryn O'Brien, University of Minnesota
- Elizabeth Runnion, Arizona State University
- Laurie Slovarp, The University of Montana
Mentors
- Sudha Arunachalam, Boston University
- Steven Barlow, University of Nebraska
- Heather Bonilha, Medical University of South Carolina
- Bob Burkard, University at Buffalo
- Aimee Dietz, University of Cincinnati
- Courtney Hall, James H Quillen VAMC and East Tennessee State University
- Tiffany Hogan, MGH Institute of Health Professions
- Michelle Hughes, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Ianessa Humbert, University of Florida
- Christopher Moore, Boston Univesity
- Marilyn Nippold, University of Oregon
- Susan Nittrouer, University of Florida
- Emily Plowman, University of Florida
- Jonathan Preston, Syracuse University
- Preeti Sivasankar, Purdue University
- Nancy Solomon, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- Christine Weber, Purdue University
- Kathryn Yorkston, Rehabilitation Medicine
Guest Speaker
- Alberto Rivera-Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
- Nancy Minghetti, American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
2015 Participants
Protégés
- Dana Battaglia, Adelphi University
- Francois-Xavier Brajot, Ohio University
- Zara DeLuca, CUNY Graduate Center/New York Eye & Ear
- Jeremy Donai, West Virginia University
- Natalie Douglas, Central Michigan University
- Elena Dukhovny, California State University, East Bay
- Naomi Eichorn, Pace University
- Lynda Feenaughty, University at Buffalo
- Kimberly Meigh, West Virginia University
- Ian Mertes, VA Loma Linda Healthcare System
- Chayadevie Nanjundeswaran, East Tennessee State University
- Asako Satoh, Boston University
- April Scott, Longwood University
- Rajani Sebastian, Johns Hopkins University
- Victoria Tumanova, Syracuse University
- Darin Woolpert, Loma Linda University
Mentors
- Julie Anderson, Indiana University
- Sudha Arunachalam, Boston University
- Aron Barbey, University of Illinois
- Steven Barlow, University of Nebraska
- Cathy Binger, University of New Mexico
- Adam Buchwald, New York University
- Bob Burkard, University at Buffalo SUNY
- Leora Cherney, Northwestern University and Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
- Ed Conture, Vanderbilt University
- Lizbeth Finestack, University of Minnesota
- Ann Geers, University of Texas at Dallas
- Ianessa Humbert, Johns Hopkins University
- Christopher Moore, Boston University
- Susan Nittrouer, The Ohio State University
- Laida Restrepo, Arizona State University
- Preeti Sivansankar, Purdue University
Guest Speaker
- Alberto Rivera-Rentas, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
2014 Participants
Protégés
- Kathryn Cabbage, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions
- Kathryn Connaghan, Northeastern University
- Shari DeVeney, University of Nebraska–Omaha
- Elizabeth Galletta, Hunter College
- Emily Garnett, University of South Carolina
- Memorie Gosa, University of Alabama
- Lindsey Jorgensen, University of South Dakota
- Maria Kapantzoglou, Portland State University
- Lisa LaGorio, University of Florida
- Karen Le, University of Connecticut
- Michelle Moore, West Virginia University
- Kathleen Nagle, University of Washington
- Ileana Ratiu, Arizona State University
- Kathy Shapley, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
- Samantha Shune, The University of Iowa
- Suzanne Thompson, St. John's University
Mentors
- Marty Brodsky, Johns Hopkins University
- Tom Campbell, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Ed Conture, Vanderbilt University
- Sumitrajit Dhar, Northwestern University
- Chris Dollaghan, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Melissa Duff, University of Iowa
- Marc Fey, University of Kansas
- Howard Goldstein, University of South Florida
- Ray Kent, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Swathi Kiran, Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College
- Chantal Lau, Baylor College of Medicine
- Jennifer J. Lister, University of South Florida
- Giselle Carnaby, University of Florida
- Sonja Pruitt-Lord, San Diego State University
- Leslie Rescorla, Bryn Mawr College
- Carol Stoel-Gammon, University of Washington
- Cynthia Thompson, Northwestern University
2013 Participants
Protégés
- Kyna Rhae Betancourt, University of South Florida
- Stephanie Borrie, Arizona State University
- Naomi Habegger Croghan, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Shruti (Balvalli) Deshpande, University of Cincinnati
- Jessica Dykstra, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
- Gerasimos Fergadiotis, Portland State University
- Farzan Irani, Texas State University–San Marcos
- Katandria Love Johnson, UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth
- Jessica Klusek, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Miriam Krause, Bowling Green State University
- Mili Kuruvilla, University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Melissa Papesh, Indiana University
- Augusta Helms Tillery, Arizona State University
- Rene Utianski, Arizona State University
- Anita Vereb, University of Michigan
- Emily Zimmerman, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mentors
- Tessa Bent, Indiana University
- Carolyn Brown, University of Iowa
- Monita Chatterjee, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Philip Dale, University of New Mexico
- Melissa C. Duff, University of Iowa
- Erick Gallun, Portland VA Medical Center
- Chantal Lau, Baylor College of Medicine
- Christy Ludlow, James Madison University
- Xin Luo, Purdue University
- Robert W. Massof, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Mary Pat Moeller, Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Sonja L. Pruitt-Lord, San Diego State University
- Jane Roberts, University of South Carolina
- Kathy Thiemann-Bourque, University of Kansas
- Ehud Yairi, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
For more information on the Pathways program or other research-related programs, please contact research@asha.org.