Director, Vestibular and Balance Disorders Program
Cleveland Clinic
Julie A. Honaker, PhD CCC-A is the Director of the Vestibular and Balance Disorders Program at the Cleveland Clinic. Her passion for vestibular sciences developed during her master’s program in audiology (2001) and PhD (2006) at the University of Cincinnati, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in (2009). Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic in 2016, she was an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with her teaching and research program focused on vestibular and balance sciences.
As a clinical-researcher she strives to advance the care of patients with balance disorders, but more importantly she mentors students to become independent and critical thinkers and consumers and producers of research. Her signature contributions to the field are enhancing the clinical training and research preparedness of students in audiology. Dr. Honaker is currently serving as the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Vice President for Academic Affairs in Audiology.