Education

• BS, University of Western Ontario, Biology, London, Ontario, Canada, 1989
• MS Communication Disorders, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 1992
• PhD Communication Disorders, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 2001

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Thibeault is the Director of the Voice and Swallow Section of the Otolaryngology Clinics, which specializes in evaluation and treatment of patients with voice, resonance, swallowing and airway disorders.

Research Interests

Dr. Thibeault’s translational research investigates molecular and genetic factors that are the basis of normal vocal fold tissue and its vibration. Dr Thibeault studies vocal fold injury and wound healing as a disordered model. Specifically, Dr Thibeault’s lab has two main areas of study — tissue engineering of the vocal fold lamina propria and laryngeal immunology. The lab has developed unique primary and immortalized human cell lines, in addition to vibrational bioreactors to aid in the research pursuit.

Dr. Thibeault's Lab

Funding/Grants

• Engineering The Vocal Fold Extracellular Matrix
  Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health, NIDCD
  Principal Investigator(s): Susan Thibeault, PhD
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• Mucosal Immune and Bacterial Characterization in Chronic Laryngitis
  Funding Agency: National Institutes of Health, NIDCD
  Principal Investigator(s): Susan Thibeault, PhD
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Recent Publications

• Therapeutic potential of gel-based injectables for vocal fold regeneration.
  Bartlett RS, Thibeault SL, Prestwich GD
  Biomedical materials (Bristol, England) 2012 Mar 29; 7(2):024103.
  [PubMed ID: 22456756]
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• The response of vocal fold fibroblasts and mesenchymal stromal cells to vibration.
  Gaston J, Quinchia Rios B, Bartlett R, Berchtold C, Thibeault SL
  PLoS ONE 2012; 7(2):e30965.
  [PubMed ID: 22359557, PMC ID: 3281043]
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• Genetic characterization of vocal fold lesions: leukoplakia and carcinoma.
  Bartlett RS, Heckman WW, Isenberg J, Thibeault SL, Dailey SH
  Laryngoscope 2012 Feb; 122(2):336-42.
  [PubMed ID: 22252855]
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• Temporal and spatial expression of high-mobility group box 1 in surgically injured rat vocal folds.
  Li NY, Lee BJ, Thibeault SL
  Laryngoscope 2012 Feb; 122(2):364-9.
  [PubMed ID: 22252485]
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• Fundamental approaches in molecular biology for communication sciences and disorders.
  Bartlett R, Jetté ME, King SN, Schaser A, Thibeault SL
  Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR 2012 Jan 9.
  [PubMed ID: 22232415]
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