Executive Board
Executive Board: (January 2019 – December 2021)
President– Prabhu Eswaran
Prabhu Eswaran is an ASHA certified school-based speech-language pathologist in Los Angeles, California. He has over fifteen years of clinical experience in working with the early childhood and school-aged population. His areas of interest include child language disorders, communication disorders in culturally and linguistically diverse populations and technology in special education. He is actively involved in various community activities and camps relating to communication disorders in the Southern California region. He has served in the AIC board under various capacities since 2013. Prabhu can be contacted at prabhuslp@gmail.com
Vice President (Public Relations)- Shriya Basu
Dr. Shriya Basu, Ph.D. CCC-SLP is an Assistant Professor at California State University-Long Beach, CA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota with dual focus majoring in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences with a minor in Cognitive Sciences. Her research interests include Fluency, Language and Cognition. Her past and current research projects are aimed at understanding the Multi-dimensional model of Stuttering: more specifically the effects of Attention, Executive Function and Working Memory on Linguistic Variables in children and adults who stutter. She can be reached at shriyabasu@gmail.com
Vice President (Professional Development)- Ranjini Mohan
Ranjini Mohan is an Assistant Professor at Texas State University in the Dept. of Communication Disorders. Her research interests include understanding the neural bases of cognition and language in typically aging adults and those with neurogenic diseases. She has clinical experience working with adults in acute, sub-acute, and outpatient settings, both in the U.S. and in India. She can be contacted at ranjini25@gmail.com
Secretary– Anusha Sundarrajan
Dr. Sundarrajan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences at San Francisco State University, California. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology in India. She earned her Ph.D. in Speech Language Pathology and a minor in Gerontology at Purdue University in 2016. Her research interests center around understanding the physiology of aging voice using aerodynamic and acoustic measures. She is specifically interested in understanding how the healthy young and old larynx responds to the effects of unhealthy, and excessive use of the laryngeal mechanism. She has extensive clinical experience working with children with developmental disabilities in schools and private practices both in the U.S. and in India.
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Treasurer- Puja Goel
Puja Goel, MA, CCC-SLP, PNAP, (she/her/hers) is a multilingual school-based speech language pathologist (SLP) who has worked for the Chicago Public Schools and currently works in New Mexico as a supervising SLP. Puja recently completed her administrative licensure in the state of NM which allows her to work as an administrator in schools. Puja is a member of ASHA, CASE and appointed to NAP.
Puja is predominantly school based, but has worked across all settings: early intervention, private practice, acute care, skilled nursing facilities and outpatient settings. She completed the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Leadership Development Program and Minority Student Leadership Program and served on the Multicultural Issues Board.
Puja graduated from Northwestern University for her Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Smith College for her Bachelor’s Degree in Government. She earned a certification in Assistive Technology from University of Illinois at Chicago and is currently pursuing a terminal degree in educational leadership. Puja is a first-generational South Asian born in the United States and holds dual citizenship in India.
Past President/AIC Advisory Board: Advisor: (January 2017-December 2018):
Akila Rajappa
Akila T. Rajappa, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S is an Assistant Professor at Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders (CSD) program at College of Health Sciences, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Rajappa is passionate about teaching and researching scientific topics related to neuroscience, medical speech pathology, psychophysics and research methods. Her primary research interests are two-fold, basic science and clinical research. In terms of basic science, her interests lie in understanding neural mechanisms of airway protective disorders (cough/swallow) and exploring sensory perception of upper airway stimuli, specifically cough stimuli through the science of psychophysics. In terms of clinical practice, she is interested in evaluating evidence-based practice (EBP), community out-reach and service-learning initiatives in speech, swallowing and cough rehabilitation for aging, stroke and neurodegenerative disease population. Dr. Rajappa has been a practicing clinician for many years across many clinical settings and is a Board-Certified Specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (BCS-S). She is also interested in clinical service delivery in multicultural population and has served in the capacity of President of Asian Indian Caucus (AIC), a multicultural constituency group of American Speech-Language & Hearing Association (ASHA). Outside of school and work, Dr. Rajappa enjoys performing Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian classical dance, swimming and spending quality time with her family.
Editorial Team:
Reethee Madona Antony, Associate Editor of ASHA KIRAN, is an Assistant Professor in the department of Speech-Language Pathology at Misericordia University, Pennsylvania. She is an alumnus of Sri Ramachandra University and is completing her doctoral dissertation at the Graduate Center of City University of New York (CUNY). Her areas of interests include neurogenic communication disorders, neural encoding of speech sounds using cortical evoked potentials, non-native speech perception, and multilingualism.
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Last Update: Aug 2021