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

Ruiying Ding, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Professor and Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Cheri S. Carrico, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Professor; NSSLHA Advisor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Ph.D. Michelle Zemsky Dineen, M.A., CCC-SLP, FNAP

Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Brenda K. Gorman, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of 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
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Full-Time/Part-Time Clinical

Karen Cannon-Janettas, MHS, CCC-SLP

Fieldwork Coordinator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Ilana Feld, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Lauren Ferguson, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Kelly Gillespie, M.S., CCC-SLP

Director, Elmhurst University Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Adjunct Faculty and Adjunct Clinical Educators

Darlene Cozzi, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Instructor; Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Laura Dunne, Elmhurst University

Laura Dunne, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Micaela Fisher, M.S., CCC-SLP

Instructor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Karyn Voels Malesevic, Au.D., CCC-A

Instructor, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Annmarie J. Mead, CI/CT, NIC Advanced, Illinois State Licensed Master Level

Adjunct Faculty, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Nancy Meer, MHS, CCC-SLP/L

Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Dana Morgan, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Janis Petru, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Jenelle Pontrelli, M.A., CCC-SLP/L

Clinical Educator, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Staff

Francesca Garza

Administrative Assistant, Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Adriana Nieto, Elmhurst University

Adriana M. Nieto

Administrative Assistant, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Department of 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.

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