Carly E. A. Barbon, PhD, CCC-SLP
Dr. Barbon is a clinician-scientist, practicing as a speech language pathologist for over 10 years with specialty in oncology and oral rehabilitation. Her research focuses on investigating key areas that drive speech, mastication and swallow impairments after head and neck cancer treatment and she is dedicated to conducting research that will develop rehabilitation approaches to improve patients’ functional outcomes and quality of life. She has spearheaded integrative clinical research pathways for oral cancer patients at MD Anderson including development and roll out of a large database towards monitoring of longitudinal function for patients treated for their oral cancer. She holds intramural funding and is a co-investigator in multiple NIH grant-funded multidisciplinary research projects in collaboration with head and neck surgery, radiation oncology, oral oncology and plastic surgery.