Susan Thibeault
Credentials: PhD, CCC-SLP
Position title: Vice Chair for Research; Diane M.Bless Endowed Chair and Professor; Voice Research Training Program Director (T32 DC9401)
Email: susan.thibeault@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-0192
Address:
5103 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR) BLDG. 1485
1111 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705-2275
Education
- BS, University of Western Ontario, Biology, London, Ontario, Canada
- MS, Communication Disorders, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
- PhD, Communication Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Clinical Specialties
Susan Thibeault, PhD, CCC–SLP, is a Speech Language Pathologist at UW Health and Director of Speech Language Pathology Research.
Research Interests
Dr. Thibeault is a clinician scientist whose research program focuses on understanding the biology of the vocal fold mucosa, specifically for inflammation, fibrosis and scarring. She has two main areas of focus: tissue regeneration and immunology of the vocal fold mucosa, which involves using developmental biology as a research platform to interrogate our knowledge, and characterization of the larynx microbiome in health and disease, for application to vocal fold inflammation. Her work in the latter area involves using single-cell transcriptomics to determine the role of this unique microbiome in the development of immune cells in the tissue. Dr. Thibeault is a member of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Advisory Council.
Publications