Dr. Linda Barnett has more than 30 years of experience in diverse pediatric and adult rehabilitation settings including inpatient, outpatient, skilled nursing, home health, early intervention and school-based. She is LSVT BIG certified and credentialed in infant mental health. Her specialty practice area is early childhood intervention. Dr. Barnett’s research interests include experiential learning, interprofessional
Dr. Victoria (Tori) Sweat started at USAHS as contributing faculty in 2025 while working as a pediatric occupational therapist in an outpatient clinic. Dr. Sweat has prior clinical experiences in an inpatient hospital and other fieldwork experiences in both traditional and non-traditional settings. Dr. Sweat completed her doctoral capstone project in 2024 with a concentration
Taylor West is a Clinical Educator for the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences Master of Speech-Language Pathology program. She is a pediatric speech-language pathologist with experience across outpatient, private practice, school-based, and teletherapy settings. Her areas of interest in speech-language pathology include early intervention, language development, and speech sound disorders. Taylor is passionate
Dr. Shelbi Moxley joined USAHS as contributing faculty in 2023 and was promoted to her current position in 2026. Dr. Moxley received her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from the Residential program at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences in December 2019. She completed Pediatric Residency training at Brooks Rehabilitation in 2022, obtaining her
Erin Beasley is a speech-language pathologist specializing in pediatric speech and language therapy, diagnostics, and supporting individuals with hearing loss across the lifespan. She is dedicated to interprofessional education, collaborative practice, and mentoring future clinicians through clinical supervision.
Megann McGill, PhD, CCC-SLP is a certified bilingual (Spanish-English) speech-language pathologist with more than a decade of experience in clinical practice, research and student supervision. Clinically, she has worked in acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, private practice, K-8 schools, home health and university clinics. Dr. McGill’s research centers on the use of telepractice to reduce healthcare
Dr. Alayna E. Townsend is an Assistant Professor in the Master of Speech-Language Pathology program at the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences on the Dallas, TX campus. Dr. Townsend began her journey in higher education in 2015, combining her clinical experience with teaching, mentorship and service. She has spent the last 10 years
Dr. Christina Gildersleeve-Neumann has extensive experience in higher education and program leadership. Her research, clinical and teaching expertise focus on severe speech sound disorders and multilingualism, with emphasis on the assessment and intervention of childhood apraxia of speech in monolingual and multilingual individuals and typical and atypical speech development in Spanish-English bilinguals. Dr. Gildersleeve-Neumann earned
Dr. Wendy Tremaine has been an occupational therapist for 35 years. Her primary practice area is pediatrics, and she has worked in various settings, including neonatal intensive care unit, acute care, outpatient rehabilitation, school-based practice and private practice. Her professional areas of expertise include sensory processing, the use of therapeutic listening with various client populations
Lynea Upson is a licensed occupational therapist with 20 years of experience across diverse settings, including acute care, sub-acute care, outpatient rehabilitation, pediatric home health, pediatric outpatient clinics, the public school system and higher education. From 2015 to 2022, Upson was an instructor at Parker University, where she helped establish the occupational therapy program and
Dr. Albert Villanueva-Reyes is a bilingual, American Speech Language Hearing Association-certified (ASHA) speech-language pathologist with more than 30 years of experience in academic, administrative and clinical areas. He has taught at several academic institutions across the United States and Puerto Rico. He holds a master’s degree in speech-language pathology, a doctorate in teaching and curriculum
With nearly three decades of experience in speech-language pathology, Kathryn Flurry has worked in a variety of adult and pediatric healthcare settings, as well as diverse educational environments. She joined the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) in 2019 and works as the clinical coordinator of the MS-SLP program on the Dallas, TX