Meet the Team
CEDD Leadership
Director
Sarah O’Kelley, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics
Associate Director
Justin Schwartz, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Training Director
Kristie Ford, MS, CCC-SLP
LEND/UCEDD Speech-Language Pathology Faculty
Community Inclusion Coordinator
Linda Russo, MAE, MSHQS
LEND/UCEDD Family Faculty
Health Equity Coordinator
Angelica Jaimes Rice,
MS, CCC-SLP
LEND/UCEDD Speech-Language Pathology Faculty
Research Coordinator
Kristi Guest, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Psychology
Training Coordinator
Julie Woodruff, AuD
LEND/UCEDD Audiology Faculty
Consumer Advisory Committee
Our Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC) provides diverse and active input from our State’s consumers and their families, which is central and essential to ensuring the activities of the CEDD reflect the needs and desires of the people being served.
Faculty and Staff
The Alabama LEND/UCEDD currently has 22 full and part-time faculty and clinical staff members representing 12 disciplines: Audiology, Pediatric Dentistry, Family, Pediatrics, Nursing, Nutrition, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Public Health, Self-Advocacy, Social Work, and Speech-Language Pathology. Faculty and staff are selected as program personnel because of their high level of competence in their respective disciplines as well as experience in disability.
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