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Director of Research Programs, Adjunct Professor,
Comm. Sci. & Disorders
Dr. Robert Hillman is Director of Research Programs, and Adjunct Professor in
Communication Sciences and Disorders in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, and the
Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation.
Dr. Hillman is also currently the Co-Director and Research Director
of the Center for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation at the
Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Surgery and a member of
the Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology faculty at Harvard
Medical School.
Dr. Hillman has been awarded over 26 grants from governmental and
private sources to support his research. He has had research funding
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1984. His research
and over 100 publications have focused on mechanisms for normal and
disordered voice production, evaluation and development of methods for
alaryngeal (laryngectomy) speech rehabilitation, development of
objective physiologic and acoustic measures of voice and speech
production, and evaluation of methods used to treat voice disorders.
In the past Dr. Hillman has been actively involved in the design and
review of research programs at NIH, having served on the "Expert Panel
on Voice and Voice Disorders to Update the National Strategic Research
Plan" for the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders, and as a project site visitor for the National Cancer
Institute, and as a core member of the Motor Function and Speech
Rehabilitation Study Section at the NIH Center for Scientific Review. He
has also served as an editorial consultant and on the editorial boards
of several professional journals, and has been an invited/keynote
speaker at over 40 national and international meetings.
Dr. Hillman is an elected Fellow of the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and is one of only five
speech-language pathologists in the country to be elected as an
Associate Member of the American Laryngological Association (a
physician’s organization).
Additional awards he has received include elected membership in Phi
Kappa Phi Honorary Society (1975), academic tenure at Boston University
(1986), Certificate of Appreciation from the Veterans Administration
Cooperative Studies Program (1991), Award of Merit from Sargent College
at Boston University (1992), Editor’s Award from the Journal of Speech
and Hearing Research of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
for publication of the article of highest merit in speech research for
1996, Casselberry Award from the American Laryngological Association for
co-authorship (with Dr. Steven Zeitels) of the outstanding manuscript
in laryngology (1998), two Partners in Excellence Awards for
accomplishments at the MGH Institute of Health Professions (2000), and
an Alumni Fellow Award from the Pennsylvania State University (2008)
given by the President of the University to select alumni who are
recognized leaders in their professions.
Most recently Dr. Hillman has received the Broyles-Maloney Award from
the American Bronchoesophalogical Association for outstanding
accomplishments in advancing the art and science of bronchoesophagology
(2010); the Manuel Garcia Prize (2010) from the International
Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics for outstanding scientific
contributions to the official journal of IALP and to the field of
Communication Sciences and Disorders; the 2011 Willard R. Zemlin Lecture
and Award from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Special
Interest Division for Speech Science to recognize an outstanding speech
scientist who has "demonstrated a record of outstanding contributions
to the broad spectrum of issues concerning speech science."; the Honors
of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2011) which is the
highest honor that the Association can bestow to “recognize individuals
whose contributions have been of such excellence that they have enhanced
or altered the course of the Professions" and the 2013 Certificate of
Achievement from the Voice Foundation.
Education:
BS, Speech Pathology, Pennsylvania State University
MS, Speech Pathology, Pennsylvania State University
PhD, Speech Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Research Interest:
Mechanisms for normal and
disordered voice production, evaluation and development of methods for
alaryngeal (laryngectomy) speech rehabilitation, development of
objective physiologic and acoustic measures of voice and speech
production, and evaluation of methods used to treat voice disorders.
Publications & Presentations:
Mehta, D.D, Zanartu, M., Quatieri, T., Deliyski, D.D.,
Hillman, R.E.
“Investigating acoustic correlates of human vocal fold vibratory phase
asymmetry through modeling and laryngeal high-speed videoendoscopy”, J.
Acoust. Soc. Am., 130(6), 3999-4009, 2011.
Mehta, D.D., Zeitels, S.M., Burns, J.A., Friedman, A.D., Deliyski, D.D.,
Hillman, R.E.
“High-speed videoendoscopic analysis of relationships between
cepstral-based acoustic measures and voice production mechanisms in
patients undergoing phonomicrosurgery”. Annals of Otology, Rhinology,
and Laryngology, 121, 341–347, 2012.
D.D. Mehta, M. Zañartu, S.W. Feng, H.A. Cheyne II,
R.E. Hillman.
(2012). Mobile voice health monitoring using a wearable accelerometer
sensor and a smartphone platform. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Engineering, 59(11), 3090–3096.
N. Roy, J. Barkmeier-Kraemer, T. Eadie, M.P. Sivasankar, D. Mehta, D. Paul,
R.E. Hillman
(2012). Evidence-based clinical voice assessment: A systematic review.
American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22, 212–226.
M. Zañartu, J.C. Ho, D.D. Mehta,
R.E. Hillman, and
G.R. Wodicka, (2013) “Subglottal impedance-based inverse filtering of
speech sounds using neck surface acceleration”, IEEE Trans. Audio Speech
Lang. Proc., 21(9), pp. 1929-1939. DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2263138 link.
See Curriculum Vitae for complete publications, presentations and research.
PubMed listing of 48
Hillman publications, with abstracts.
