Faculty and Staff
At Elmhurst University, students in communication sciences and disorders learn face to face with talented faculty who are, first and foremost, dedicated teachers. They’re also researchers and practitioners who make a difference in their fields.
Full-Time Faculty
Cheri S. Carrico, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor; NSSLHA Advisor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Michelle Zemsky Dineen, M.A., CCC-SLP, FNAP
Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ruiying Ding, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor and Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Brenda K. Gorman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Jennifer M.D. Kremkow, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Program Director, M.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders; Associate Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Full-Time/Part-Time Clinical
Karen Cannon-Janettas, MHS, CCC-SLP
Fieldwork Coordinator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Ilana Feld, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Lauren Ferguson, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Kelly Gillespie, M.S., CCC-SLP
Director, Elmhurst University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Susanna Vargas, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Faculty and Adjunct Clinical Educators
Darlene Cozzi, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Instructor; Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Laura Dunne, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Micaela Fisher, M.S., CCC-SLP
Instructor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Karyn Voels Malesevic, Au.D., CCC-A
Instructor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Annmarie J. Mead, CI/CT, NIC Advanced, Illinois State Licensed Master Level
Adjunct Faculty, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Nancy Meer, MHS, CCC-SLP/L
Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Dana Morgan, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Janis Petru, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Jenelle Pontrelli, M.A., CCC-SLP/L
Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Staff
Francesca Garza
Administrative Assistant, Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Adriana M. Nieto
Administrative Assistant, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Faculty Emerita
Professor Emerita
B.A., Kansas State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Sabbatical, Northwestern University
Certificate of Clinical Competence, Speech-Language Pathology
Marjorie Goodban taught courses in intercultural communication, fluency disorders and speech science. Her primary research interest is communication development in children with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS), and she has presented numerous papers and seminars in Europe, Australia and the United States on this topic. Her videotapes demonstrating therapy procedures with children with this syndrome are requested by individuals and groups from numerous countries. She serves as the speech-language advisor to the CdLS Foundation.
Goodban has presented numerous papers at various conferences and has published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, and Language Speech and Hearing in Schools. The Arlt-Goodban norms for articulation, co-developed by Goodban, are used exclusively in some states.
From 1990 to 1996, Goodban was one of the nominees for Woman of the Year in DuPage County. She is an alumna of Elmhurst University. Prior to working at Elmhurst University, she was a research associate at the University of Illinois and the director of a VA Hospital Speech Clinic.