Jeannette D. Hoit

Jeannette D. Hoit, PhD, CCC-SLP (Retired), is Professor Emerita in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and former director of Postdoctoral Affairs at the University of Arizona. Dr. Hoit received her BA in anthropology from the University of California at Los Angeles, her MA in communication disorders from San Diego State University, and her PhD in speech and hearing sciences from the University of Arizona and pursued postdoctoral study at the Harvard School of Public Health Respiratory Biology Program and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Speech Research Laboratory. Dr. Hoit’s research focused on speech physiology with an emphasis on normal aging and development, neuromotor speech disorders, and respiratory function and dysfunction. Dr. Hoit is past editor of the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and University of Arizona College of Science Galileo Fellow. She has received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from San Diego State University and several teaching and mentoring awards from the University of Arizona.