Giselle Carnaby, MPH, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Honors
Professor and PhD Program Director in Health Sciences at the University of Texas San Antonio Health Sciences Center. As a Speech-Language Pathologist and Public Health Specialist she specializes in research epidemiology and biostatistics and has worked extensively in neurology and dysphagia research. Dr Carnaby’s research focus lies in the rehabilitation of swallowing disorders in Head neck cancer, Parkinson's Disease and Stroke, and she has published over 100 peer reviewed papers in these areas. Dr. Carnaby is the author of the “Mann Assessment of Swallowing” and its cancer version MASA-C. She is a lifetime research scholar of the American Cancer Society and has a background of funded research from the NIH-NCI, NIH-NICHD, ACS and FL- DOH. She was awarded ASHA Fellow, in 2012and received Honors of the Association in 2020.