Our Team

Dr Barkmeier-Kraemer is the Director of the Voice, Airway, Swallowing Translational (VAST) Research Lab. This lab supports funded and unfunded projects addressing normal and abnormal voice, breathing, and swallowing. Several NIH funded projects are associated with the VAST Research Lab including: 

• “Vascular Connective Tissues as a Factor in Onset of Idiopathic Vocal Fold Paralysis” (R01DC011311, Co-PIs: Barkmeier-Kraemer, Vande Geest), 
• “Physiologic Correlates of Vocal Tremor affecting those with Essential Tremor” (R01DC016838, PI: Barkmeier-Kraemer), 
• “Imaging and Influence of Glottic and Subglottic Anatomy in Healthy and Stenotic Patients” (R01DC009616, PI: Tanner), 
• “Pathophysiology of Voice Disorders Due to Combination Inhaled Corticosteroids in Asthma” (R01DC016269, PI: Tanner) and 
• "Next-Generation Clinical Phenotyping and Pathophysiology of Laryngeal Dystonia and Voice Tremor" (P50DC01990, PI: Simonyan). 

Our lab and the Utah Voice Disorders Center are also a research site for "RTSS-Voice: Towards a unified system to classify treatments for muscle tension dysphonia." (R01DC020247, PI: Van Stan).