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Home > Faculty and Staff > Faculty Biographies > Karlind Moller

Karlind Moller

Professor and Director
Division of Cleft Palate
Department of Developmental and Surgical Sciences

Karlind Moller Address:
6-296 Moos Health Sciences Tower
515 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis MN 55455
Phone: (612) 625-5945
E-mail: molle001@umn.edu

Education / Training:

Institution Degree Year Field of Study

University of MN BS 1964 Communication Disorders

University of MN MA 1967 Communication Disorders

University of MN PhD 1970 Communication Disorders

University of Minnesota Post Doctoral 1970-72 National Institute Dental Research Fellowship

Honors & Awards:

Certificate of Clinical Competence, American Speech and Hearing Association, 1979
Fellow, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1983
NIH, Division of Research Grants, Initial Review Group, Special Study Section, 1985
Omicron Kappa Upsilon - Honorary Membership, 1985
Outstanding Clinical Achievement Award (Di Carlo Nominee), Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1985
Honors of the Association, Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 1993
Professor of the Year Award - Century Club, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, 1998
International College of Dentists, Honorary Membership, 2003

Selected Publications:

Moller, K.T., and Starr, C.D., The Effect of Listening Conditions on Speech Ratings Obtained in a Clinical Setting. Cleft Palate J. 21:286-292 (1984).
Starr, C.D., and Moller, K.T., Dawson, W., Graham, J., Skaar, S., Speech Ratings of Speech Clinicians, Parents, and Children, Cleft Palate J. 21:286-292 (1984).
Moller, K.T. and Gorlin, R.J., The Dubowitz Syndrome - A Retrospective. Samuel Pruzansky Festschrift Volume. Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology 5 Supplement 1, 283-286, 1985.
Segall, M. and Moller, K., HLA region in cleft lip and palate: possible evidence for a T/t complex in man. Transplant. Proc. 17(1):781-782, (1985).
Moller, K.T., Early speech development: Interaction of learning and structure. In J. Barbach and H. Morris (Eds.) Multidisciplinary management of cleft lip and palate (Chapter 81). Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders Co. 1990.
Moller, K.T., Starr, C.D., and Johnson, S. A Parent's Guide to Cleft Lip and Palate. University of Minnesota Press. Minneapolis, MN. 1990.
Moller, K.T. An approach to evaluation of velopharyngeal adequacy for speech. Clinics on Communication Disorders. 1(1):61-75, 1991.
Lang, R., Starr, C. and Miller, K. The effect of pubertal changes on the speech of persons with cleft palate. Cleft Palate J. 29 (3): 268-270, 1992.
Rhodus, N.L., Colby, S., Moller, K.T., and Bereuter, J. The quantitative assessment of dysphagia in patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome and secondary Sjogren's syndrome with systemic lupus erythematosus. Oral Surg., Oral Med., Oral Path. 79(3), 305-310, March 1995.
Broen, P., Moller, K., Carlstrom, J., Doyle, S., Devers, M., and Keenan, K. A comparison of the hearing histories of children with and without cleft palate. Cleft Palate- Craniofacial Journal 33:127-133, 1996.
Broen, P., Doyle, S., Carlstrom, J., J. Prouty, Moller, K.T. Acquisition of linguistic and cognitive skills with children with cleft palate. J. Speech Hearing Res. 41(3): 676-687, 1998.
Aurouze, C., Moller, K.T., Bevis, R., Rehm, K. Rudney, J. Presurgical status of the alveolar cleft and success of secondary bone grafting. Cleft Palate - Craniofacial Journal 37: 179-184,2000.
Kuehn, D. and Moller, K.T. State of the Art: Speech and language issues in the cleft palate population. Invited article for Cleft Palate - Craniofacial Journal 37 (4): 348-1 to 348-35, 2000.
Moller, K.T. and Starr, C.D. Cleft Palate: Interdisciplinary Issues and Treatment. ProEd Publications Inc. Austin, TX. 1993 (2nd edition, 2005)

Brief Biographical Data:

Karlind Moller, PhD is Director and Coordinator of the Cleft Lip and Palate and Craniofacial Anomalies Clinics. Dr. Moller is a Professor in the Department of Preventive Sciences at the School of Dentistry and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences (Department of Communication Disorders) and has served as director and coordinator for over 25 years. He is a member of several professional associations, has served as president of the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Chair of the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, member of the Executive Council of the American Cleft Palate, Craniofacial Association Board member of the Cleft Palate Foundation, and chaired the Publications Committee of the foundation. He has held editorial consultantships to a variety of dental, speech and hearing and interdisciplinary journals and publications. Dr. Moller has received several awards and grants for his research, teaching and professional service. He is a fellow in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, honorary member of the Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Society, honorary member of the International College of Dentists, received the Outstanding Clinical Achievement Award and Honors of the Association from the Minnesota Speech-Language-Hearing Association. He has published over 100 articles, abstracts, book chapters and authored two books pertaining to interdisciplinary cleft lip and palate management. In addition, Dr. Moller has made over 120 presentations as an invited speaker to local, national, and international meetings and conferences.
Dr. Moller has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry since 1970. Following completion of his PhD in Communication Disorders, Dr. Moller was awarded a Special Research Fellowship from the National Institute of Dental Research and was appointed Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1975 and became Director of the Cleft Palate Program in 1977. He was promoted to Professor in 1982 and was named co-Director of the Craniofacial/Skull Base Surgery Center in the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center in 1992. Dr. Moller's career passions include teaching and mentoring students, dental specialty residents and graduate students in speech-language pathology and audiology about interdisciplinary care for patients with cleft palate and other craniofacial disorders, relationships among dental and oral conditions and speech performance and the effects of intra-oral appliances and speech prostheses on speech, increasing the knowledge base through collaborative research and providing optimal service to patients and families.
Dr. Moller has also participated in surgical missions to developing countries as a speech-language pathologist and is a strong advocate for interdisciplinary care for persons with cleft lip, palate and other craniofacial disorders.

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