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Dr. Chandregowda joined the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at NSU as an Associate Professor on June 15th, 2022. Prior to joining NSU, he worked as a visiting assistant professor at the University of South Florida (USF). Since his PhD days and until spring-2022, he served about 1250 CSD students (~900 undergraduate students, ~350 graduate students) as an instructor across 16 courses at USF. His current teaching interests include acquired neurogenic speech, language and cognitive-communication issues. Since fall 2024 he has been the course director for motor speech disorders in adults at NSU.
Dr. Chandregowda has interdisciplinary experience spanning speech-language pathology (SLP), audiology/hearing science and cognitive neuroscience. During his two-year postdoctoral clinical fellowship in medical SLP in the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic (Minnesota), he served close to 1000 patients with various speech, language and cognitive-communication concerns and developed a passion for clinical research. His research interests include primary progressive aphasia/fronto-temporal dementia, care-partner services, end-of-life communication, SLP curriculum and scope-of-practice issues, clinical service delivery philosophies, and optimum classification of acquired verbal issues to facilitate appropriate counseling and management. He is also interested in exploring the neuroscience of speech, language, and auditory mechanisms by studying pertinent clinical population.
Dr. Chandregowda has substantial experience with professional presentations, both nationally and internationally. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for multiple academic journals: Aphasiology, Journal of Communication Disorders, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, Neurocase, and Neurology— Clinical Practice. In 2024-2025, he served as a co-guest editor of a special issue for the Journal of Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, highlighting the importance of case studies and case reports.