Abby Hemmerich, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Abby Hemmerich joined the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in January 2011. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Communication Sciences and Disorders, her master’s degree from UW-Eau Claire, and her doctorate from the University of Iowa. She worked at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City, providing acute and outpatient speech-language pathology services prior to returning to school for her doctorate. While working on her dissertation, Dr. Hemmerich provided home health speech-language pathology services in the Milwaukee area. Her research interests include best practices for serving individuals with voice concerns, topics related to teaching & learning, strategies for increasing cultural awareness and sensitivity within the field of speech language pathology, and interprofessional education. Currently, she teaches courses and provides clinical supervision in voice disorders.