Dr. Jerry Hoepner is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He teaches courses in anatomy and physiology, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, acquired cognitive disorders, dysphagia, and counseling. Jerry co-facilitates two community-based brain injury groups (Blugold Brain Injury Group and Mayo Brain Injury Group), a national poetry group for persons with brain injuries and aphasia (Thursday Night Poets), and the Chippewa Valley Aphasia Camp. His research addresses video self-modeling interventions for persons with acquired language or cognitive disorders and their everyday partners, aphasia camp outcomes for campers and students, motivational interviewing, counseling methods and training, undergraduate research outcomes, course-embedded clinical experiences, and instructional pedagogies. Dr. Hoepner is widely published in those clinical and academic research areas. He is a founding editor of Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences and Disorders and editorial board member for Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders. In 2022, he cofounded the new ASHA SIG20 for counseling in Communication Sciences and Disorders. His poetry group the Thursday Night Poets published I Don't Think I Did This Right, a collection of poems by people with brain injuries and aphasia in 2021. Their second poetry book, Poetry is Chocolate, includes poems about their recoveries from brain injuries and aphasia is forthcoming in 2023. In 2018, he was awarded the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Excellence in Mentoring in Research, Scholarship, and Creative activity. In 2020, he was awarded the University of Wisconsin Systems Regent's Teaching Excellence Award, the highest honor bestowed on University of Wisconsin faculty. In 2021, he was awarded Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. In 2023, he was awarded the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders Distinguished Contribution Award for enriching education in CSD.
