Personal Biography

Robert C. Fifer
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11273 SW 153 Ave.
Miami, FL 33196

Home phone: 
Cell phone: 305-215-7623

email: rfifer@med.miami.edu

Education after High School: B.S. Speech Pathology - University of Nebraska at Omaha M.A. Audiology - Central Michigan University Ph.D. Audiology and Bioacoustics - Baylor College of Medicine
Occupation: Audiologist
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Names and ages of Children: David - 32

Birthday: 6/2/1952

After my masters degree, I went on active duty in the U.S. Air Force as an audiologist. I was assigned to the Philippines and Texas during the 11 years on active duty. I got caught up in the post-Viet Nam reduction in force and separated from the Air Force in December 1986. I went to work for the Carle Clinic in Urbana, IL and was there for 3 1/2 years. I left Carle Clinic in 1990 and started at the University of Miami where I have been ever since. I currently wear a number of hats in addition to my day job (Associate Professor and Director, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Mailman Center for Child Development). Among my other responsibilities, I am adjunct professor at the Catholic University of Argentina in Buenos Aires, consultant to Florida Medicaid, consultant to the Florida Department of Health (Children's Medical Services) and a member of the Genetics and Newborn Screening Advisory Council for the Florida Department of Health. I have been the audiology representative to the AMA's Health Care Professions Advisory Committee to develop, evaluate, and recommend reimbursement levels to Medicare. I have also been involved with health care economics since 2002. I was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association through 2019 and am serving on a Medicaid task for the state professional association. For the last 4 years I have been part of a team performing research on the Zika virus and had a grant to establish health care infrastructure to the U.S. Virgin Islands with a focus on congenital Zika syndrome. I am now part of another research group that few out of the first Zika group to study the long term effect of the coronavirus on child development.

Updated: 9/3/20