Kendrea Garand is an Associate Professor within the Department of Communication Science and Disorders (CSD). She also serves as Director of CSD Student Awards. She completed her clinical doctorate (CScD) in medical speech-language pathology at the University of Pittsburgh and earned her PhD in health and rehabilitation sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Garand's post-doctoral fellowship was completed within a joint appointment at the Veterans Affairs (VA) and MUSC’s Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Her interests include how healthy aging, motor neuron disease (e.g., ALS), and sleep-related breathing disorders (e.g., OSA) impacts swallowing function and respiratory-swallow coordination. She has been a practicing speech-language pathologist for approximately 15 years and supervises graduate student clinicians in the CSD master’s program in speech-language pathology within the UPMC Swallowing Disorders Center. Dr. Garand holds Board Certification in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (BCS-S). Part of her current professional service responsibilities include Editor-in-Chief of ASHA Perspectives of the Special Interest Groups journals and is the Chairperson of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders. Her work has been supported through NIH, VA and ASHFoundation, in additional to internal funding awarded through her previous faculty employment as an Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama.

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