Senior Director, Academic Affairs and Research Education
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Financial Disclosures: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)- Employment
Non-Financial Disclosures: Advisory Board Member, American Interprofessional Health Collaborative
Loretta Nunez, M.A., AuD, CCC-A/SLP, ASHA Fellow, FNAP, is Director of Academic Affairs & Research Education for the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA). She directs activities supporting academic, clinical and research education; personnel preparation and faculty development; and higher education trends and forecasting in communication sciences and disorders. Dr. Nunez leads ASHA’s Envisioned Future 2025 strategic objective to advance interprofessional education and collaborative practice and represents ASHA on the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, and the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC). She is an Advisory Board member of the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) and is a Distinguished Fellow and Practitioner of the National Academy of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology. Prior to joining ASHA, Dr. Nunez held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Akron and Kent State University.