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Professor Bruce Murdoch is the Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Director of the Motor Speech Research Centre at The University of Queensland. Professor Murdoch is an internationally recognised authority on acquired speech and language disorders of neurological origin in both adults and children. He has published 10 books and in excess of 260 articles in high impact refereed international journals in the area of motor speech and language disorders associated with a variety of neurological conditions including traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accidents, Parkinson’s disease, brain tumors and multiple sclerosis. Professor Murdoch has also contributed in excess of 50 invited chapters to books edited by other internationally recognised researchers, including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology Encyclopaedia of Communication Disorders published in 2004. He has held the position of visiting professor at several institutions in the USA and Europe, including Arizona State University, Florida State University, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Reading and the University of Gothenburg. He was the Foundation President of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing from 2000-2004, and Vice-President of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics from 2001-2004.
Professor Murdoch is also the Director of the Motor Speech Research Centre at the University of Queensland. He established the Centre in the early 1990’s and since that time, under his direction, it has become internationally recognised as a one of the most productive and influential research centres of its type world-wide. The research centre attracts numerous international visitors each year and has been influential in establishing the importance of physiologically based techniques in the assessment and treatment of neurologically based communication deficits. The centre has received in the region of three million dollars in research grants since its formation from a range of prestigious national and international funding agencies. In 2004 Professor Murdoch received funding from an NHMRC Development Grant to develop the world's first pressure-sensing electropalatograph.
Professor Murdoch is in high demand as a guest speaker at international conferences, having in recent years presented invited plenary addresses at international conferences in Canada, USA, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, South Africa, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He was the first Australian speech scientist to be invited to present a keynote address to the prestigious American Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders and Sciences on the topic of “Speech disorders associated with traumatic brain injury”. During the past three years he has conducted a number of workshops on neurogenic speech/language disorders in Brazil, Sweden, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA and Canada. In November 2004, he presented three invited lectures at the annual conference of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to be held in Philadelphia. He was the Chair of the Organising Committee for the 26th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics held in Brisbane in August-September 2004.
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Medical: Ataxia, Medical: Brain, Medical: Brain Tumors, Medical: Communicative Disorders, Speech, Medical: Multiple Sclerosis, Medical: Nervous System, Medical: Neurological Disorders, Medical: Neurology, Medical: Neuropathology, Medical: Neurophysiology, Science and Technology: Neuroscience, Medical: Parkinson's Disease, Social Sciences: Rehabilitation/Therapy, Medical: Speech Pathology, Medical: Stroke, Medical: Traumatic Brain/Head Injury |
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