Associate Professor
ComD
Office: 135 TLRB
Phone: 801-422-7045
Email: nope@kristine_tanner@byu.edumsn.com
Dr. Kristine Tanner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders at Brigham Young University. She holds Adjunct appointments in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Division of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery at The University of Utah. She consults at The Voice Disorders Center in Salt Lake City. Dr. Tanner provides care for patients with a variety of voice problems and specializes in care of the professional voice. She is also a classically trained lyric soprano.
Dr. Tanner's teaching interests include voice and airway disorders, speech and voice anatomy and physiology, and swallowing function.
Dr. Tanner's research interests include laryngeal and upper airway environmental irritants, hydration regulation, and voice disorder risk factors. Her current projects include asthma inhaler-related voice disorders and the effects of subglottic stenosis on voice function, both funded by the NIDCD, NIH.
NIDCD/NIH
2018 - 2023
Mentored Research Conference
2022
Brigham Young University
2020
Faculty Women’s Association, Brigham Young University
2020
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2019
National Institutes of Health
2016 - 2017
National Institutes of Health
2014 - 2016
McKay School of Education
2014
Poster presented at the annual David O. McKay College of Education Mentored Research Conference
2014
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2009 - 2010
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2003
University of Utah
2001
NIDCD/NIH
2018 - 2023
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention
2022
Fall Voice Conference
2020
National Institutes of Health
2018 - 2020
NIDCD/NIH
2017 - 2018
David O. McKay School of Education
2016
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
2014
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
2014
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2013
Voice Foundation 32nd Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2003
University of Utah
2000 - 2003
Brigham Young University
1997 - 1999
Acoustic variability in the healthy female voice within and across days: How much and why?
Neurology
A field-based approach to establish normative acoustic data for healthy female voices
Case study: Team develops plan to treat a music major’s muscle tension dysphonia
Voice disorders and xerostomia
Age-Related Changes in Speech and Voice: Spectral and Cepstral Measures
An Intensive Boot Camp Approach to the Remediation of Speech Sound Disorders: A Case Report
Nebulizer use in adults with subglottic stenosis: A survey study.
Arthritis: Laryngeal involvement
Assessment and Management of Muscle Tension Dysphonia: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Epidemiology of swallowing disorders in rheumatoid arthritis: Prevalence, risk factors, and quality of life burden
Effects of voice-sparing cricotracheal resection on phonation in women
Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed: Take a look at whether or not science backs up these six common voice care recommendations
Descriptive epidemiology of voice disorders in rheumatoid arthritis: Prevalence, risk factors, and quality of life burden
Swallowing disorders in Sjögren’s syndrome: Prevalence, risk factors, and effects on quality of life
Laryngeal desiccation challenge and nebulized isotonic saline in healthy male singers and nonsingers: Effects on acoustic, aerodynamic, and perceptual measures
Ex-vivo high-resolution MRI of the porcine larynx and segmentation of neurovascular structures
Nebulized isotonic saline improves voice production in Sjögren’s Syndrome
The quality of life burden associated with voice disorders in Sjögren’s syndrome
Voice disorders in Sjögren’s syndrome: Prevalence and related risk factors
Timing of Events during Deglutition after Chemoradiation Therapy for Oropharyngeal Carcinoma
Voice, Speech, and Laryngeal Features of Primary Sjogren's Syndrome
Quality of life scores compared to objective measures of swallowing after oropharyngeal chemoradiation
Comparing nebulized water versus saline after laryngeal desiccation challenge in Sjögren's Syndrome
Voice Symptoms and Voice-Related Quality of Life in College Students
Toward Validation of the Cepstral Spectral Index of Dysphonia (CSID) as an Objective Treatment Outcomes Measure
All Talked Out
Case-control study of risk factors for spasmodic dysphonia: A comparison with other voice disorders
Epidemiologic advances in spasmodic dysphonia
Corticosteroid-LABA Inhalers Increase Phonation Threshold Pressure (PTP) and Flow (PTF) in Rabbits