Denis Michael Rudisch, M.M., Dipl. Univ.

Denis Michael Rudisch is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders and at the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying towards a Joint-PhD degree in Communication Disorders and in Clinical Investigation under the joint mentorship of Drs. Ciucci & Rogus-Pulia.

Prior to joining Dr. Ciucci’s laboratory, Denis received his MM degree as well as a post-graduate Advanced Certificate from New York University specializing in Vocal Performance, Vocal Pedagogy, and Vocology. He also worked as a referral Singing Voice Habilitation Specialist at the NYU Langone Voice Center and conducted research as a Research Intern in Dr. Aaron Johnson’s laboratory at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Denis is an SVI trained Vocologist and is currently a NIH T32 Voice Research Training Program Predoctoral Fellow. He is interested in how neurodegenerative diseases and neurological disorders affect the voice and underlying molecular mechanisms. He specializes in neurogenic voice disorders with a particular focus on early voice deficits as biomarkers for early-stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD). His dissertation focuses on how targeted vocal exercise and cardiovascular exercise affect early voice changes, laryngeal pathology (i.e., mitochondrial dyfunction and inflammation), and proteinopathy in brain regions of vocalization in a translational model of AD.