Curriculum Vitae for Gerasimos Fergadiotis EDUCATION 2011 – Arizona State University, Doctor of Philosophy, Speech and Hearing Science, Dissertation Title: Modeling Lexical Diversity across Language Sampling and Estimation Techniques 2007 – Kent State University, Master of Arts, Speech-Language Pathology 2005 – Technological Educational Institution (T.E.I) of Epirus, Bachelor of Arts, Speech and Language Therapy PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2012 – Present Faculty Research Associate, Arizona State University, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Tempe, AZ 2008 – 2011 Research Associate, Arizona State University, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Tempe, AZ 2007 – 2008 Speech Language Pathologist, Parma Community General Hospital, Parma, OH 2007 – 2008 Speech Language Pathologist, Patrician Skilled Nursing Facility and Rehabilitation, North Royalton, OH 2005 – 2007 Teaching Assistant, Kent State University, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Kent, OH 2004 – 2005 Speech Therapist, “Logos” Voice-Speech Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece PROFESSIONAL STATUS 2008 – Present Certificate of Clinical Competence – American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Certification # 12146235 2007 – 2008 Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist – Ohio Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Gerasimos Fergadiotis Curriculum Vitae Page 2 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2008 – Present Associate Member, Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences 2007 – Present Member, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association GRANTS AND AWARDS Fellowships 2012 – NIDCD Student Fellowship: Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology. Award: $1,500 2011 – NIDCD Student Fellowship: Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology. Award: $1,500 2010 – New Century Scholars Program Doctoral Scholarship. ASHFoundation. Award: $10,000 2010 – NIDCD Student Fellowship: Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology. Award: $1,500 2009 – Marilyn Miller Quintana Moline Fellowship: Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University. Award: $5,000 2009 – NIDCD Student Fellowship: Research Symposium in Clinical Aphasiology. Award: $1,500 2008 – Ph.D. Recruiting Fellowship: Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University. Award: $12,500 Travel Grants 2011 – Travel Grant: Graduate and Professional Student Association, Arizona State University. Award: $650 2011 – Travel Grant: Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University. Award: $800 2010 – Travel Grant: Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University. Award: $600 2009 – Conference Travel Grant: Graduate College, Arizona State University. Award: $350 Gerasimos Fergadiotis Curriculum Vitae Page 3 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY & PUBLIC SERVICE Service Activities 2009 – 2010 Doctoral Student Representative, ASU NSSLHA Executive Board Journal Reviews Reviewer for American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY (student names are underlined) Publications Hula, W., & Fergadiotis, G., & Martin, N. (2012). The effects of sample size and guessing on parameter recovery in IRT modeling of aphasia test data. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. Wright, H. H., & Fergadiotis, G. (2012). Conceptualizing and Measuring Working Memory and its Relationship to Aphasia. Aphasiology, 26 (3-4), 258-278. DOI:10.1080/02687038.2011.604304 *Invited manuscript for Special Issue: Short-Term/Working Memory Impairments in Aphasia: Data, Models, and their Application to Aphasia Rehabilitation Fergadiotis, G., & Wright, H. H. (2011). Lexical diversity for adults with and without aphasia across discourse elicitation tasks. Aphasiology, 25, 1414-1430. *Invited manuscript for Special Issue: Discourse in Aphasia Fergadiotis, G., Wright, H.H., & Capilouto, G. (2011). Productive vocabulary across discourse types. Aphasiology, 25(10), 1261-1278. Wright, H. H., Capilouto, G. J., Srinivasan, C., & Fergadiotis, G. (2011). Story processing ability in cognitively healthy younger and older adults. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 54, 900-917. Wright, H. H., Koutsoftas, A., Capilouto, G. J., & Fergadiotis, G.. Global coherence in younger and older adults: Influence of cognitive processes and discourse type. Manuscript submitted for publication. Fergadiotis, G., Wright, H. H., & West, N. T.. Measuring lexical diversity in narrative discourse from people with aphasia. Manuscript submitted for publication. Gerasimos Fergadiotis Curriculum Vitae Page 4 Refereed Scientific and Professional Presentations Fergadiotis, G., Yoo, H., Chen, F., & Wright, H.H., (2012, May). Measuring lexical diversity in aphasic discourse. Poster presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Lake Tahoe, California. Wright, H.H., Fergadiotis, G., Stoltzfus, M., & Capilouto, G. (2012, January). Cohesion and local coherence in narratives across the lifespan. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society in Montreal, Canada. Peterson, M., Fergadiotis, G. & Wright, H.H. Assessing the construct validity of the Nback. (2011, November). Poster presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, San Diego. Fergadiotis, G. & Wright, H.H. (2011, November). Capturing lexical diversity in aphasia with confirmatory factor analysis: preliminary data. Poster presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, San Diego. Fergadiotis, G. & Wright, H.H. (2011, September). Using latent semantic analysis to capture global coherence in aphasic discourse. Platform presentation at the New Trends in Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference, Madrid, Spain. Hula, W. & Fergadiotis, G., Martin, N. (2011, May). The effects of sample size and guessing on parameter recovery in IRT modeling of aphasia test data. Platform presentation at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Fergadiotis, G., Kapantzoglou, M., & Wright, H.H. (2011, May). Discourse coherence in adults with aphasia. Poster presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Peterson, M., Fergadiotis, G. & Wright, H.H. Exploring the construct validity of the nback task: Preliminary findings. (May, 2011). Poster presented at the Speech and Hearing Science Student Research Symposium at Arizona State University. Fergadiotis, G., Wright, H.H., & Christensen, S. (2011, February). Productive vocabulary across discourse types in aphasia. Poster presented at the International Neuropsychological Society Meeting, Boston, MA. Fergadiotis, G., Wright, H.H., Kapantzoglou, M., & Capilouto, G. (2010, November). Assessing the dimensionality of the Pyramids and Palms Trees Test. Poster presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia. Gerasimos Fergadiotis Curriculum Vitae Page 5 Wright, H. H., Fergadiotis, G., Koutsoftas, A., & Capilouto, G. (2010, October). Coherence in stories told by adults with aphasia. Poster presented at the Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece. Fergadiotis, G., Wright, H.H., & Capilouto, G. (2010, October). Exploring the total information of the Pyramids and Palm Trees Test. Poster presented at the Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, Athens, Greece. Kapantzoglou, M., Fergadiotis, G., & Restrepo, L. (2010, August). Lexical diversity and language sample elicitation effects in Spanish-speaking children with and without language impairment. Poster presented at the 28th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, Athens, Greece. Hill, L., Fergadiotis, G., Wright. H.H. (2010, May). Comparing latent semantic analysis and a traditional local coherence measure. Poster presented at the Speech and Hearing Science Student Research Symposium at Arizona State University. Fergadiotis, G., Wright, H.H., & Capilouto, J.G. (2010, May). Productive vocabulary across discourse types. Poster presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Fergadiotis, G., Christensen, S. C., & Wright, H. H. (2009, November). Manipulating linguistic load to investigate working memory in aphasia. Poster presented at the American Speech Language Hearing Association Annual Convention, New Orleans. Fergadiotis, G., Wright, H.H., Katz, R., Ross, K., & Shapiro, L. (2009, May). Phonological working memory in aphasia. Poster presented at the Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Keystone, Colorado. TEACHING EXPERIENCE SHS 350: Brain, Memory and Language. Guest Lecturer: Applying the WernickeGeschwind model to aphasic language processing. SHS 105: Introduction to Human Communication Disorders. Guest Lecturer: Aphasia and Acquired Neurogenic Disorders. SHS 575: Aphasia/Neurogenic Language Disorders. Assessment and treatment of acquired neurolinguistic impairments using a Problem-Based Approach. SHS 485: Acquired Speech and Language Disorders. Aphasia Lectures Gerasimos Fergadiotis Curriculum Vitae Page 6 TEACHING TRAINING Mentoring workshop: School of Life Sciences, ASU, (Spring, 2011) SHS 790: Effective Course Development, (Fall, 2010) SHS 793: Applied Project – Class Preparation and Instruction, (Fall, 2009) Updated August 2012