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In Memory of Thomas J Hixon, PhD, CCC-SLP |
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 |
 Thomas J Hixon
After graduate school at the University of Iowa, a postdoc at Harvard,
and a faculty position at the University of Wisconsin, Tom came to the
University of Arizona in 1976. During his tenure, he wrote
approximately100 publications, including several books, the most recent
of which was published, with coauthors Drs. Jeannette Hoit and Gary
Weismer, in 2008. He was honored for his extraordinary contributions
as a journal editor with the Council of Editor's Award for Publication
Contributions to the Association by the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He was also awarded Honors of
the Association by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association,
the highest recognition bestowed.
Tom has long maintained a national and international prominence for his
research on respiratory function during the production of speech, an
area he pioneered in the 1970s. He was ranked above the 95th percentile
for receipt of NIH funding over the past 25 years. In 1991, the
Acoustical Society of America published a volume of the most
significant scientific articles that had been written with regard to
speech production up to that point in time (in other words these were
"classics"). Under the category "Respiration" three articles were
included. Two were authored by Dr. Hixon and colleagues, and consumed
nearly 100 pages of this volume.
His administrative roles at
the University of Arizona included serving as Head of the Department of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Dean of the Graduate College
(twice), and as Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate
Studies. In addition, he was the director of the National Center for
Neurogenic Communication Disorders, a large research, education, and
dissemination grant funded by the National Institutes of Health. That
center established the University of Arizona as the leading center for
research on brain-based disorders of communication. The center’s
outreach mission included the award-winning Telerounds series, a
professionally-produced interactive teaching program that broadcasts to
sites around the world.
We speak for hundreds of students,
researchers, faculty, and staff in saying we are profoundly grateful to
Thomas J Hixon, PhD,CCC-SLP. Tom, we will miss you.
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