Emily Plowman-Prine Emily Plowman-Prine earned a Bachelors Degree in Speech and Hearing Science with First Class Honors from Curtin University, Western Australia in 2000. She was then offered an international scholarship to undertake doctoral training with world leaders in swallowing disorders at the University of Florida, where she received her Doctorate in Rehabilitation Sciences in 2006. Following her Doctorate, Plowman-Prine completed both a clinical fellowship in Speech-Language Pathology and a post-doctoral research fellowship in Neuroscience at the McKnight Brain Institute. During the later, she was awarded a National Institute of Deafness and other Communicable Diseases (NIDCD) individual training grant to develop a animal model of oral motor dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. Over the past two years, Plowman-Prine has also been the recipient of an American Speech and Hearing Association New Investigator Grant and a Clinical and Translational Science Institute training grant and throughout her academic training has received numerous awards and honors. Most recently, this has included the Movement Disorders Society New Investigator Award (2009), the McKnight Brain Institute Research Fellow of the Year (2009) as well as Best Scientific Platform Presentation at both the International Dysphagia Research Society and the NIDCD Integrative Neural Systems annual conventions earlier this year. Dr Plowman-Prine joins the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Florida this Fall with affiliate appointments in Neurology and Psychology where she will continue her research in neurogenic speech and swallowing disorders in both animal models and human patient populations. She plans to use her newly developed animal model as a platform to study the neural mechanisms underlying oral motor impairment in Parkinson’s disease and the subsequent development of efficacious therapies that can be one day translated to the human condition. In addition, Plowman-Prine currently teaches (Advanced Seminars in Dysphagia course) (the swallowing disorders course) in the Speech-Language Pathology Masters program.
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