Special Section: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Alumnus Receives 2011 Honors of the Association Award From ASHA Photo Credit: Gene Maylock
Robert E. Hillman ’74, ’75g S P A has received the 2011 Honors of the Association Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, which recognizes a lifetime record of exceptional achievement. The Honors of the Association Award is the association’s most prestigious honor. Hillman is a co-director and research director of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of surgery and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2008, he received the Alumni Fellow Award, the highest honor bestowed upon alumni by the Penn State Alumni Association. Hillman presented a talk as part of the HHD Alumni Society’s Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series at Penn State in September 2011 titled, “Preserving and Restoring the Human Voice: Current Innovations and Future Directions.” The presentation focused on the ground-breaking work of an award-winning interdisciplinary team of surgeons, speech-language pathologists, and scientists at the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH Voice Center) in Boston who have spent over twenty years creating more effective ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat some of the most challenging laryngeal voice disorders.
Ann C. Crouter, Raymond E. and Erin Stuart Schultz Dean of the College of Health and Human Development (left), and Jeff Sarabok ’91 HPA, present Hillman with a framed copy of the poster that advertised his September 2011 talk at Penn State.
Communication Sciences and Disorders Affiliate Program Group The CSD APG seeks to unite CSD alumni (and alumni of predecessor majors) in order to serve alumni, faculty and staff members, and students of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Below is an update from the CSD APG’s president about current APG activities and ways to get involved. We welcomed four new board members to our team: Jen Jacobs ’05, ’07g CSD; Emily Green-Hamilton ’05 CSD; Joy (Ford) Dieffenderfer ’05 CSD; and Karen Thomas ’92g CMDIS. We held our annual “Alumni in the Classroom” event in September 2011, and we were able to match alumni with undergraduate classes as well as with two graduate seminars. Our next “Alumni in the Classroom” event is scheduled for September 26-28, 2012. If you would like to speak to a CSD class about your career or about an area of expertise, please contact Leslie Talford. We hosted a web conference with the Penn State NSSLHA organization in February 2012 in which one alumni presenter was featured. We will hold another web conference for the undergraduate students in NSSLHA in the spring of 2013. Alumni who wish to speak to students remotely via web technology should contact Leslie Talford. Please view our annual e-newsletter, which was distributed in spring 2012, at alumni.hhd.psu.edu/csd/newsevents.html
Connect with the Affiliate Program Group Website alumni.hhd.psu.edu/csd Facebook “Penn State CSD Alumni” APG President Leslie Ferree Talford ’98 CMDIS speechmadeeasy@yahoo.com