Ellen Cohn
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'''Ellen R. Cohn''' is an Associate [[Dean (education)|Dean]] and [[associate professor]] at [[University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences]], with a secondary faculty appointment at [[University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy]]. She is a faculty member of the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
She received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from Douglass College of [[Rutgers University]] in 1974, [[Master's degree|MS]] from [[Vanderbilt University]] in 1975 and [[PhD]] from [[University of Pittsburgh]] in 1980.
Her research interests are in the areas of [[cleft palate]], [[dentofacial disorder|dentofacial]] and [[craniofacial disorder]]s; clinical training in [[speech-language pathology]]; pharmacy-based and small group [[communication]], and instructional and [[telerehabilitation]] based applications of electronic communication. She has done substantial work in supervision of clinicians who deliver [[speech-language therapy]], and in [[Web site]] content development, including Web sites that seek to engage an international audience.
She has authored multiple [[distance education]] manuals, and co-authored, with radiologist [[M. Leon Skolnick]] ''Videofluroscopic Studies of Speech in Patients with Cleft Palate''. Cohn is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the [[American Speech-Language-Hearing Association]] and the [[American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association]], and has contributed to Educause Quarterly: the IT Practitioners Journal, Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Journal of Speech-Language and Hearing Disorders, and Radiology.
== Selected publications ==
* Cohn, E, Klinzing. G, Frieze, IH, Sereika. S, Stone, CA, and Vana C, Academic Computing Vulnerabilities: Another View of the Roof, Educause Quarterly, 1: 57- 61, 2004. http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm0419.asp
* Cohn E. and Hibbitts, B. Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space, Educause Quarterly, 27:4 , 7-10, Nov. 2004. http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm0441.asp
* Cohn, E, One Course, One Website—Of Course? Educause Quarterly, 2, 2004.http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm0421.asp
* Cohn, E. Introduction of Computing Competencies for Future Healthcare Professionals, Editor: Dave Brown, In: Teaching With Technology: Sixty Professors From Eight Universities Tell Their Stories, Anker, NH: Anker Publishing Co., 2000.
* Cohn, E, and Stoehr. G. Multidisciplinary Applications of CourseInfo Course Management Software to Motivate Students in Traditional Course Settings, Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning, 2:1, http://imej.wfu.edu/articles/2000/1/04/index.asp April, 2000,
* Skolnick, ML and Cohn, ER, Videofluoroscopic Studies of Speech in Patients With Cleft Palate. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989.
* Cohn ER, Rood, SR, McWilliams BJ, Skolnick, ML, and Abdelmalek, LR, Barium sulphate coating of the nasopharynyx in lateral view videofluoroscopy. Cleft Palate Journal, 21:7,-17, 1984.
* Glaser, ER, (now ER Cohn) Garver, KL, Metz, MC, McWilliams, BJ, Skolnick, ML and Garrett, WS, Velopharyngeal incompetence in a patient with multifocal eosinophilic granuloma ,(Hand-Schuller-Christian Disease), Journal of Speech-Language and Hearing Disorders, 47:320-323, 1982.
* McWilliams, BJ, Glaser, ER, (now ER Cohn) Philips, BJ, Lawrence, C, Lavorato, AS, Beery, QC, and Skolnick, ML. A comparative study of four methods of evaluating velopharyngeal adequacy. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 68:1-9, July 1981.
* Skolnick, ML, Glaser, ER (now ER Cohn) and McWilliams, BJ, The uses and limitations of the barium swallow in the detection of velopharyngeal insufficiency, Radiology, 135:301-304, May 1980.
== External links ==
* [http://www.shrs.pitt.edu/csd/about/faculty/cohn.html Webpage at UPSHRS]
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