Clinical Education Committee

Andy Clare MS CCC-SLP CBIS, is the Assistant Director of Clinical Education for the George Washington University Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences. He currently serves as the chair of the CAPCSD Clinical Education Committee. His clinical areas of expertise include Dysphagia, Aphasia, Cognitive-Linguistic Disorders and Aural Rehabilitation. He teaches classes in Dysphagia, Aural Rehabilitation and Clinical Methods. His research interests center on refining clinical education processes for students and supervisors in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Prachi Bengeri, M.S., CCC-SLP is the Clinical Director and Assistant Professor at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Prachi has clinical experience in outpatient and in home services, primarily with young children. Her areas of expertise and interest are clinical education, autism spectrum disorders, early childhood speech and language, and executive functioning in children. Specifically, Prachi is interested in studying and exploring clinical educator preparation in graduate programs. Prachi currently serves on the Clinical Education Committee in CAPCSD.

Catherine Fabian’s primary clinical interests lie in the functional neurology of individuals’ peripheral and central auditory systems and in assessing and treating the impact of injury, illness, and noise exposure on hearing and auditory processing. She is experienced with assessing and treating auditory dysfunction in children, managing tinnitus, performing central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) evaluations, measuring and controlling noise exposure, and providing rehabilitation through auditory training and device fitting for children and adults.

Dr. Fabian has worked as a private practitioner, educational audiologist, and clinical research audiologist. Her work includes developing CAPD assessment and therapy programs and performing multidisciplinary research, assessment, and treatment of auditory and vestibular dysfunction following brain injury. She also directed Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program for a large regional health system.

She strives to consolidate her professional expertise and passions into her teaching and practice to expand the reach of audiology and its specialties in order to increase early identification and management of hearing loss and other auditory disorders. Dr. Fabian is an instructor for Clinical Practice and Vestibular Evaluation and Management.

Christi Masters, M.S., CCC-SLP is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University. She provides clinical education to graduate students and her primarily areas of clinical practice are early intervention and pediatric stuttering. She also teaches Introduction to Communicative Disorders course at the undergraduate level.

Dr. Hodson McLean joined the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at UNC in 2021. She is the clinical education coordinator for audiology graduate program. She enjoys teaching students in the classroom and clinic environment. She has experience in educational audiology and pediatric audiology and has a particular interest in the complex listening needs of teens and tweens.

Dr. Hodson McLean is a licensed audiologist in the state of North Carolina. She holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-A) from the American Speech, Language Hearing Association (ASHA).

As Associate Dean for Clinical Education, Dr. Owen oversees clinical education at the Osborne College of

Audiology - Salus at Drexel University.  On the state level Dr. Owen served as President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Audiology (PAA) and Chair of the Board of Examiners for Speech Language Pathology and Audiology.   In 2017 Dr. Owen was inducted as a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice.  In 2021 Dr. Owen was recognized as the Alumna of the Year for the Osborne College of Audiology. In 2024 PAA recognized Dr. Owen's years of dedication to the profession by honoring her as the recipient of the George Osborne Award.

Anu Subramanian, Ph.D., CCC-SLP is a clinical professor and director of clinical programs in SLP at the Dept of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Iowa. She supervises graduate students in stuttering (across the age span) and pediatric clinical placements, including early intervention. She teaches classes in Supervision and Foundations of Clinical Practice. Her interests are in early intervention, stuttering, and clinical education. She is an alumni of the CAPCSD Leadership Academy from 2019 and serves on clinical education committee at CAPCSD.

Kevin M. McNamara, M.A., CCC-SLP Retired, is clinical director emeritus in the Department of Communication Disorders at Southern Connecticut State University. Across his career, he has supported children and adults with a wide variety of communication needs, served as a clinical educator and director, and engaged in research and presented on the topic of clinical education. He served on the 2016 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Ad Hoc Committee on Supervision Training, and more recently as Chair of the CAPCSD Clinical Educator Resources Committee. He was named an ASHA Fellow in 2019 due, in part, to his work in advancing best practices in clinical education and supervision.  

Mandie began working in the role of Director of Professional Development for CAPCSD in June 2023. She has had extensive opportunities managing meetings, events and conferences in a destination management company, nonprofit organization, city government agency, and two professional associations, in both professional and volunteer capacities.

In 2010, she joined Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and began serving as a volunteer with the North Florida Chapter. Mandie served on the Board of Directors, and worked with other Florida chapter leaders on a statewide committee for the state's regional conference. She earned her Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) professional designation through the Events Industry Council in 2014 and recertified in 2019 and 2024. She is a member of the American Society of Association Executives.

Outside work, Mandie enjoys spending time with her husband and their two children. She loves reading, watching true crime shows, creating table settings, and cheering on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.