APPENDIX II: VITA OUTLINE (3 page maximum)
Name: Christy L. Ludlow, Ph.D.
Academic rank Full Professor
Date Employed May 18, 2009
CCC Status (check all that apply)
Tenure status: Tenure track
X SLP Audiology None
X Tenured Date tenured: 1988 at NIH:
JMU 2009
Full-time in accredited program? Yes X No
PhD
Degree
MSc. Applied
Institution
New York University
McGill University
Year
1973
1967
Major
Psycholinguistics & Speech
Pathology
Speech Pathology &
Audiology
Physiological Psychology BSc. McGill University 1965
Describe significant professional experience, contributions, and continuing education activities during the past 3 years.
List major areas of research interests:
Central nervous system control of voice, speech and swallowing and brain neuroplasticity with rehabilitation following brain injury
List publications, presentations completed:
Publications in peer-reviewed journals in the last 3 years:
1.
Chang S-E, Synnestvedt A, Ostuni J, Ludlow CL. Similarities in speech and white matter characteristics in idiopathic developmental stuttering and adult-onset stuttering, Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2010 Sep 1;23(5):455-469.
2.
*Blitzer AB, Crumley RL, Dailey SH, Ford CN, Floeter MK, Hillel AD, Hoffman HT, Ludlow
CL, Merati A, Munin MC, Robinson LR, Rosen C, Saxon KG, Sulica L, Thibeault SL, Titze I,
Woo P, Woodson GE. Recommendations of the Neurolaryngology Study Group on
Laryngeal Electromyography. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009 2009 Jun;140(6):782-
793. Epub 2009 Apr 9.*(Authors in alphabetical order)
3.
Chang S-E, Kenney M.K., Loucks T.M.J., Ludlow C.L. Brain activation abnormalities during speech and non-speech in stuttering speakers, Neuroimage. 2009 May 15;46(1):201-12.
Epub 2009 Feb 11

4.
Ludlow C.L. Treatment for spasmodic dysphonia: limitation of current approaches, Curr
Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009 Jun;17(3):160-5.
5.
Chang S-E., Kenney M.K., Loucks T.M.J., Poletto C.J., Ludlow C.L. Common neural substrates support speech and non-speech vocal tract gestures, Neuroimage. 2009 Aug
1;47(1):314-25. Epub 2009 Mar 25.
6.
Feng X, Henriquez VM, Walters JR, Ludlow CL. Effects of dopamine D
1
and D
2
receptor antagonists on laryngeal neurophysiology in the rat, J Neurophysiol. 2009
Aug;102(2):1193-205. Epub 2009 Jun 17
7.
Simonyan K, Ludlow C.L. Vortmeyer A. Brainstem pathology in spasmodic dysphonia.
Laryngoscope. 2010 Jan;120 (1);121-4.
8.
Simonyan K, Ostuni J, Ludlow CL, Horwitz, B. Functional but not structural networks of the human laryngeal motor cortex show left hemispheric lateralization during syllable but not breathing production. J Neurosci.
2009 Nov 25;29(47):14912-23
9.
Landouré G, Zdebik A.A, Martinez T.L
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, Burnett B.G., Stanescu H.C., Inada H .
, Shi Y .
, Taye
A.A., Lingling Kong L .
, Munns C.H
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, Choo S.S., Phelps C.B., Reema Paudel 8 , Houlden , H .
,
Ludlow C.L
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, Caterina M.J
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, Gaudet R., Kleta , R., Fischbeck K.H
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, and Sumner C. J.
Mutations in TRPV4 cause Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 2C. Nature Genetics,2010
Feb;42 (2):170-4.
10.
Simonyan K , Ludlow C.L. Abnormal Activation of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex in
Spasmodic Dysphonia: An fMRI Study. Cerebral Cortex 2010 Nov; 20 (11) 2749-2759. E pub March 2010.
11.
Zimon M, Baets J, Auer-Grumbach M, Berciano J, Garcia A, Lopez-Laso E, Merlin L,
Hilton-Jones D, McEntagart M, Crosby AH, Barisic N, Boltshauser E, Shaw CE, Landoure
G, Ludlow CL, Gaudet R, Houlden H, Reilly MM, Fischbeck KH, Sumner CJ, Timmerman B,
Jordanova A, Jonghe PD. Dominant mutations in the cation channel gene transient receptor vanilloid 4 cause an unusual spectrum of neuropathies. Brain 2010 Jun;133(Pt
6):1798-809.
12.
Ludlow CL Electrical neuromuscular stimulation in dysphagia: current status. Curr Opin
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010 Jun; 18 (3): 159-164.
13.
Ludlow, CKL. Spasmodic dysphonia: a laryngeal control disorder specific to speech . J
Neuroscience 2011, Jan 19: 31 (3) 793-797.
14.
Chang SE, Horwitz B, Ostuni J, Reynolds R and Ludlow CL Evidence of left inferior frontal-premotor structural and functional connectivity deficits in adults who stutter.
Cerebral Cortex, Apr 18. [Epub ahead of print]
15.
Simonyan K and Ludlow CL Abnormal structure-function relationship in spasmodic dysphonia. Cerebral Cortex Cereb Cortex. 2011 Jun 10. [Epub ahead of print]
16.
Ludlow CL. Central nervous system control of interactions between vocalization and respiration in mammals. Head & Neck, in press
5 Chapters and Books and 10 National and International presentations during the last 3 years

List grants awarded:
U54 NS065701,
08/31/2014
Jinnah (PI) 09/01/2009-
The Dystonia Coalition, Dr. Ludlow Project Leader on Project 3, “Validity and Reliability of
Diagnostic Methods and Measures of Spasmodic Dysphonia,
The goal of this study is to develop a diagnostic test for spasmodic dysphonia that is accurate whether used by experts in the disorder or by practitioners unfamiliar with the disorder. In the final stage the measurement techniques for quantifying symptoms severity will be validated.
Role: Project Leader
List activities related to clinical service delivery:
Treated voice disordered clients, approximately 12 per year
List clinical supervision experience:
Supervised students during assessment and treatment of voice disordered clients
List professional development (e.g., continuing education activities, attendance at professional meetings, completion of course work, in-services). Provide the title/topic of activities.
Regularly attend the following meetings each year,
Dysphagia Research Society
American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Society for Neuroscience
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
List professionally related service activities:
Ongoing:
Member Publications Board, American Speech Language Hearing Association 2007-2010
Member Swallowing and Upper Airway Committee of the American Academy of
Otolaryngology-head and Neck Surgery, 2008 to present
Chair, Scientific Advisory Board , National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association
Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia, assisted with the development of regulations for fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of Swallowing
List courses currently teaching:
Voice Disorders—James Madison University 2009, and 2011