Cate Madill

Associate Professor Cate Madill, PhD, BAppSc (Hons), BA (Hons) CPSP, is a speech language pathologist, university educator and researcher specialising in assessment and management of voice disorders. She is the Director of the University of Sydney Voice Lab at the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and has over 25 years of clinical experience as a speech language pathologist working in voice disorders. She trained as an actor before researching physiological mechanisms of laryngeal control and their impact on the sound and perception of the voice. Her recent research focuses on experimental and applied clinical studies into the mechanism and processes that change the voice in the context of voice disorder and professional voice use. She has developed a systematic research program into principles of motor learning in voice therapy and classical singing training. She has over 60 publications in international peer reviewed journals and has presented over 150 presentations at national and international conferences.