Faculty: Kristine Tanner
Title
Associate Professor
Department:
ComD
Contact Information
Office: 135 TLRB
Phone: 801-422-7045
Email: nope@kristine_tanner@byu.edumsn.com
Brief Biography
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.
Teaching Interests
Dr. Tanner's teaching interests include voice and airway disorders, speech and voice anatomy and physiology, and swallowing function.
Research Interests
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.
Awards
1R01DC16269-01A1
NIDCD/NIH
2018 - 2023
Early Career Scholarship Award
Brigham Young University
2020
Scholarship Award
Faculty Women’s Association, Brigham Young University
2020
Meritorious Poster Award
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2019
Extramural (Student) Loan Repayment Program Competitive Renewal
National Institutes of Health
2016 - 2017
Extramural (Student) Loan Repayment Program
National Institutes of Health
2014 - 2016
Mentoring Research Conference, 3rd Prize
McKay School of Education
2014
Quantifying voice change after hydration treatment in Sjögren’s Syndrome: Examination of relative fundamental frequency and the cepstral spectral index of dysphonia
Poster presented at the annual David O. McKay College of Education Mentored Research Conference
2014
Invited Participant, First Annual Clinical Practice Research Institute
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2009 - 2010
Graduate Research Travel Award
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2003
Elizabeth Fuhriman Gardner Prize for Outstanding Woman in the Health Sciences
University of Utah
2001
2R01DC009616-0A1
NIDCD/NIH
2018 - 2023
Poster Award
Fall Voice Conference
2020
Extramural (Student) Loan Repayment Program Competitive Renewal
National Institutes of Health
2018 - 2020
R56-DC009616
NIDCD/NIH
2017 - 2018
Nancy Peery Marriott Award for Teaching
David O. McKay School of Education
2016
Lessons for Success
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
2014
Meritorious Poster Award for "Quantifying the long-term effects of nebulized saline on voice production in Sjögren’s Syndrome"
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
2014
Meritorious Poster Award for "Comparing nebulized water versus saline after laryngeal desiccation challenge in Sjogren’s Syndrome"
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
2013
David W. Brewer Award for “Best Poster Presentation”
Voice Foundation 32nd Annual Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2003
The Lamborn Scholarship
University of Utah
2000 - 2003
Graduate Student Academic Scholarship
Brigham Young University
1997 - 1999
Selected Publications
Neurology
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2021
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
- Volume: 96
- Issue: 21
- URL: https://n.neurology.org/
A field-based approach to establish normative acoustic data for healthy female voices
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2021
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- City: Rockville, MD
- Country: US
- Volume: 64
- URL: https://pubs.asha.org/journal/jslhr
Acoustic variability in the healthy female voice within and across days: How much and why?
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2021
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- City: Rockville, MD
- Country: US
- Volume: 64
- URL: https://pubs.asha.org/journal/jslhr
Case study: Team develops plan to treat a music major’s muscle tension dysphonia
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2020
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Professional or Trade Magazine Article
- Publisher: www.asha.org
- City: Rockville, MD
- Country: United States
- URL: https://www.asha.org/practice/ipe-ipp/case-studies/case-study-6/
Voice disorders and xerostomia
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2020
- Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
- Publisher: Slack Publishing, Inc.
- City: Thorofare, NJ
- Country: USA
- ISBN: 9781630914899
- URL: https://www.rittenhousebookstore.com/rbd/Products/Book.aspx?sku=1630914894&parentType=CategoryList
Nebulizer use in adults with subglottic stenosis: A survey study.
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2019
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Sage Journals
- City: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Country: USA
- Volume: 128
- Issue: 4
- ISSN: 1943-572X
- URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/aor
Arthritis: Laryngeal involvement
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2019
- Publication Type: Book, Chapter/ Section in Scholarly Book
- Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- City: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Country: USA
- ISBN: 9781483380810
- URL: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/encyclopedia-collections
Assessment and Management of Muscle Tension Dysphonia: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2018
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Professional or Trade Magazine Article
- Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- City: Rockville, MD
- Country: USA
- Volume: 3
- Issue: 3
- URL: https://pubs.asha.org/doi/pdf/10.1044/persp3.SIG3.77
Epidemiology of swallowing disorders in rheumatoid arthritis: Prevalence, risk factors, and quality of life burden
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2018
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Springer
- City: New York, NY
- Country: USA
- URL: http://www.springer.com/medicine/otorhinolaryngology/journal/455
Effects of voice-sparing cricotracheal resection on phonation in women
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2017
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: New York, NY
- Country: USA
- Volume: 127
- ISSN: 1531-4995
- URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1531-4995
Busted, Plausible, or Confirmed: Take a look at whether or not science backs up these six common voice care recommendations
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2016
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Professional or Trade Magazine Article
- Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- City: Rockville, MD
- Country: USA
Descriptive epidemiology of voice disorders in rheumatoid arthritis: Prevalence, risk factors, and quality of life burden
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2016
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Elsevier
- City: Philadelphia, PA
- Country: USA
- Volume: 30
- Issue: 1
- URL: https://www.jvoice.org
Swallowing disorders in Sjögren’s syndrome: Prevalence, risk factors, and effects on quality of life
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2016
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Springer
- City: New York, New York
- Country: USA
- Volume: 31
- Issue: 1
- URL: http://www.springer.com/medicine/otorhinolaryngology/journal/455
Laryngeal desiccation challenge and nebulized isotonic saline in healthy male singers and nonsingers: Effects on acoustic, aerodynamic, and perceptual measures
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2016
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Elsevier
- City: Philadelphia, PA
- Country: US
- ISSN: 08921997
- URL: https://www.jvoice.org
Nebulized isotonic saline improves voice production in Sjögren’s Syndrome
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2015
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: Indianapolis, Indiana
- Country: USA
- URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291531-4995
The quality of life burden associated with voice disorders in Sjögren’s syndrome
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2015
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Sage
- City: Thousand Oaks, CA
- Country: USA
- ISSN: 0003-4894
- URL: http://aor.sagepub.com/
Voice disorders in Sjögren’s syndrome: Prevalence and related risk factors
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2015
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: Malden, MA
- Country: USA
- Issue: 125
- ISSN: 1531-4995
- URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291531-4995
Timing of Events during Deglutition after Chemoradiation Therapy for Oropharyngeal Carcinoma
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2015
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: Indianapolis, IN
- Country: USA
- ISSN: ISSN: 1097-0347
- URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291097-0347
Voice, Speech, and Laryngeal Features of Primary Sjogren's Syndrome
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2014
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: American Broncho-Esophagological Association
- City: St Lewis, MO
- Country: USA
- Volume: 123
- Issue: 11
- ISSN: ISSN 0003-4894
- URL: http://www.annals.com/
- Abstract: click to view
Quality of life scores compared to objective measures of swallowing after oropharyngeal chemoradiation
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2014
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: Malden, MA
- Country: USA
- Volume: 124
- Issue: 3
- ISSN: 1531-4995
- URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291531-4995
Comparing nebulized water versus saline after laryngeal desiccation challenge in Sjögren's Syndrome
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2013
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wiley
- City: Malden, MA
- Country: USA
- Volume: 123
- Issue: 11
- ISSN: 1531-4995
- URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291531-4995
- Abstract: click to view
Voice Symptoms and Voice-Related Quality of Life in College Students
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2013
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Annals Publishing Company
- City: St Louis, MO
- Country: USA
- Volume: 122
- Issue: 8
- URL: http://www.annals.com/
Toward Validation of the Cepstral Spectral Index of Dysphonia (CSID) as an Objective Treatment Outcomes Measure
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2013
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Elsevier
- City: Maryland Heights, MO
- Country: USA
- Volume: 27
- Issue: 4
- URL: https://www.jvoice.org
All Talked Out
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2013
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Professional or Trade Magazine Article
- Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- City: Rockville, MD
- Country: US
- Volume: March 2013
- URL: https://www.asha.org
Epidemiologic advances in spasmodic dysphonia
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2012
- Publication Type: Other
- Publisher: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- City: Rockville, MD
- Country: USA
- Volume: 22
- Issue: November
- URL: https://www.asha.org
- Abstract: click to view
Case-control study of risk factors for spasmodic dysphonia: A comparison with other voice disorders
- Authors:
- Publication Date: 2012
- Publication Type: Journal Article, Academic Journal
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
- City: Hoboken, NJ
- Country: USA
- Volume: 122
- Issue: 5
- URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291531-4995
- Abstract: click to view