Ron Scherer, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Bowling Green State University, teaches voice disorders and voice and speech science courses. His research interests include the physiology, mechanics, and acoustics of basic, abnormal, and performance sound production, and the methodologies involved in such research. He was Senior Scientist at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts voice laboratories and taught in the DCPA's theatre voice and speech trainers program. In 2005 he was a Research Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, a master's degree from Indiana University in speech-language pathology, a B.S. degree in mathematics, and also spent two years as a music major at Indiana University. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the American Speech Language Hearing Association. He enjoys golf and ballroom dancing a little too much.