Edie R. Hapner, PhD, CCC-SLP, is the George W. Barber Junior Endowed Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she also serves as the Co-Director of the UAB Voice Center and the Director of Hearing and Speech. She is a fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and Associate Fellow of the American Laryngological Association. Dr. Hapner has served on the Board of Directors for the American Speech Language and Hearing Association as the Vice President of Planning, Coordinator of the SIG 3 Voice and Voice Disorders and chaired the ASHA Annual Convention in both 2020 and 2022. She has served as a member of the Voice Committee for the American Academy of Otolaryngology and the Education Committee for the American Bronchoesophageal Association and served on the AAOHNS Guidelines Committee for Dysphonia. She is a founding member of PAVES, Pathway for Advanced Voice Education and Service and currently serves on the Advisory Board.
Dr. Hapner's research interests include aging voice, dystonia and adherence to voice therapy. She has co-edited Voice Therapy Clinical Case Studies Editions 4, 5 and now 6. She is co-developer of Phonation Resistance Training Exercises (PhoRTEÒ), an evidence-based treatment for aging voice. She developed and implemented the voice curriculum for Medbridge Inc, an online learning system for speech language pathologists. She has presented hundreds of lectures, workshops, and seminars on voice and voice disorders. She has over 70 published articles in the area of voice and voice disorders and multiple book chapters. Dr. Hapner’s greatest professional accomplishment remains the mentoring of 23 consecutive voice centric clinical fellows into this incredible world of care of the voice.
