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Professor, CO-Director UAB Voice Center, Director, Division of Speech and Hearing
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Dr. Edie R. Hapner is the George W. Barber, Jr., Foundation Professorship in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Hapner is Division Chief of Speech and Hearing -Department of Otolaryngology, and Co-Director of the UAB Voice Center. Her clinical and research interests include care of voice and upper airway disorders, aging voice, the role of voice therapy, laryngeal dystonia and essential voice tremor, Parkinson’s disease-associated voice disorders.
Dr. Hapner is a Fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association (ASHA), an Associate Fellow of the American Laryngological Association (ALA) and a Distinguished Fellow of the National Academy of Practice (NAP). She was elected to the ASHA Board of Directors and has served and is serving on numerous ASHA, American Academy of Otolaryngology and the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics committees. She served as the President of the Alabama Voice Foundation in 2021 and will continue on a Past President in 2022-2023. She was active in the reinvigoration of the Alabama Chapter of the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association in 2021.
Dr Hapner pioneered a new voice therapy treatment technique for aging voice that has been validated to non-invasively improve the voice quality of life for those suffering with age related changes to the voice. She has published extensively on the treatment of voice disorders. Dr Hapner is an internationally recognized speaker and has presented to her physician and speech pathology colleagues nationally and also internationally over 20 times in 2021.
Dr. Hapner’s notes that her greatest accomplishments are her fellows. She has mentored 19 speech language pathology fellows in a unique voice and upper airway specific fellowship across 3 academic institutions since 2004. She also continues to mentor speech language pathology graduate students in clinical voice work and undergraduate students in research in voice and upper airway.