Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer is a tenured professor in the Division of Otolaryngology, Adjunct faculty to the Department of Communication Sciences and DIsorders, and Clinic Director for the Voice Disorders Center at the University of Utah. She joined the University of Utah in June 2014.
Dr. Barkmeier-Kraemer is the clinic director for the rehabilitation team within the Voice Disorders Center (VDC), Dr Barkmeier-Kraemer works with exceptional colleagues to provide interdisciplinary services to individuals with voice, breathing, and swallowing problems. The VDC team and other colleagues at the UofU, BYU and Utah State host the annual Utah Performance Voice Conference held in honor of World Voice Day.
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. Current NIH funded projects include “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: Thomson), “Pathophysiology of Voice Disorders Due to Combination Inhaled Corticosteroids in Asthma” (R01DC016269, PI: Tanner). Her lab also recently completed the project, “Sensitivity and Specificity of the Infant and Child Feeding Questionnaire” (co-PIs: Barkmeier-Kraemer, Silverman), with support from Feeding Matters to develop a pediatric feeding disorders screening tool.
Dr. Barkmeier-Kraemer currently teaches the Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Clinical Investigation Workshop (MDCRC 6060-001) supported by the Center for Clinical Translational Science (CCTS). She is the University of Utah ASHA Clinical Education Administrator for speech-language pathology continuing education activities. She currently mentors undergraduate students through UROP as well as graduate students in the master's and doctoral program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Otolaryngology and other School of Medicine resident research projects.
Dr. Barkmeier-Kraemer has administrative and leadership roles through ASHA including as the Editor-in-Chief for the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (AJSLP). She is a Board member for the ASHFoundation and recently completed her term as a standing committee member (2014-2017) and chairperson (2017-2019) for the NIH Motor Function and Speech Rehabilitation (MFSR) study section.
