We are proud to announce Joe Duffy as keynote speaker.

Joe Duffy is a worldwide authority, well known of his book on motor speech disorders. He is a speech-language pathologist in the Division of Speech Pathology in the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic and Professor in the Mayo College of Medicine.  His clinical, research, scholarly and teaching activities are primarily in the area of acquired neuropathologies of speech and language.  He serves on the Editorial Board or as a reviewer for many journals, has served as co-chair and member of the Certification Board of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS), and is a member of several ANCDS Practice Guidelines committees.  He is a Fellow in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and has been awarded the Honors of ASHA and ASHA’s Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award.