Jessica Klusek, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Klusek received her doctorate in speech and hearing sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She followed her doctoral training with an NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowship in psychology at the University of South Carolina, where she completed interdisciplinary training in physiology, psychology, and genetics. Dr. Klusek is also a certified speech-language pathologist. Dr. Klusek is also an advisor in the NFXF’s Research Readiness Program.