Susan Pattay, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, assistant professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology, was elected to a three-year term on the New Jersey Speech-Language Hearing Association (NJSHA) Board of Directors, beginning July 1. She was appointed at the NJSHA annual business meeting in April.
Board members serve as ambassadors for NJSHA by attending programs and events, initiating regular personal contact with members, and promoting activities of the association. Members also serve as a liaison to standing committees and task force assignments while contributing and sharing objective opinions on all board matters.
Specifically, Pattay plans to create opportunities to promote NJSHA to students at the university level (at Monmouth and across the state), as students begin to learn about the profession they have chosen and the resources that exist for it.
“In my new elected position as a NJSHA board member, I am looking forward to offering all my strengths to the organization,” she said. “I would like to continue developing innovations for medical speech-language pathologists to participate within NJSHA and helping those clinicians advocate for their patient care.”
Pattay is a medical speech-language pathologist who maintains a board clinical specialty in swallowing and swallowing disorders (BCS-S) while working as faculty. She has been involved with the profession at the state level through NJSHA, serving on the Convention Committee, Membership Committee, and Healthcare Committee, which formally invited her in 2022 to participate on a Dysphagia Subcommittee and prepare a white paper that advocated for legislative changes to align New Jersey SLP practices (and subsequently patient care) with the rest of the country.
NJSHA is an “organization that empowers audiologists, speech-language pathologists, speech, language and hearing scientists and future professionals by providing resources and support to its members and those they serve.” Learn more about the NJSHA.