Denise Stats-Caldwell, M.A., CCC-SLP has been a practicing speech-language pathologist for over 25 years and a clinical educator in varied roles at ASU beginning in 2005. She has worked in a variety of settings including acute care hospitals, outpatient clinics, otolaryngology private practice, and a local cancer center. She specializes in disorders of voice, speech, swallowing, and upper airway with subspecialties in professional voice and oral, head, and neck cancer. In her role as Clinical Professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, she provides graduate-level academic and clinical instruction on varied disorders of speech, voice, swallowing, upper airway, and resonance disorders. She trains graduate student clinicians in speech-language pathology at the ASU Speech and Hearing clinic and in the community at Valley ENT, Baseline location in collaboration with fellowship-trained laryngologist Leopold Yin, M.D. Professor Stats-Caldwell has advanced practice training in the following areas: videolaryngostroboscopy, fiberoptic endoscopic examination of swallowing (FEES), rehabilitation of communication and swallowing in oral, head and neck cancer, including total laryngectomy. She partnered with a cancer survivor to start the first SPOHNC support group in Arizona (Support for People with Oral, Head, and Neck Cancer). She has started needed programs within Banner Health Arizona: Banner Desert Voice and Swallowing Clinic (2000); Fiberoptic Endoscopic Examination of Swallowing program (FEES, 2004; inaugural program at Banner Desert Medical Center with subsequent expansion to other Banner Health Arizona facilities); Videostroboscopy and voice clinic (2017; Banner Gateway Medical Center/Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center). Professor Stats-Caldwell speaks at local, state, and national levels. She is involved in state-level advocacy promoting healthcare equity for Arizonans who need speech-language pathology services.
