Imani Gilbert

4th Year Doctoral Student  
Contact: gilberti16@students.ecu.edu

Imani Gilbert s a fourth year doctoral student and speech-language pathologist who has experience working with individuals that present with a variety of communication disorders.  Her current research interests are related to anatomical and physiological correlates of speech production, specifically in the cleft palate population.

Education

• East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Rehabilitation Sciences
  2020-Present
• East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
  Master of Science (MS), Speech-Language Pathology
  2020-2022
• East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
  Bachelor of Science (BS), Speech and Hearing Sciences
  2016-2020

Publications

• Perry JL, Snodgrass TD, Gilbert IR, Sutton BP, Baylis AL, Weidner EM, Tse RW, Ishman S, Sitzman
  TJ (2022). Establishing a clinical protocol for velopharyngeal MRI and interpreting imaging findings.
  Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/1055665622114118
• Jin R, Shosted RK, Xing F, Gilbert IR, Perry JL. , Woo J, Liang ZP. & Sutton BP (2022). Enhancing
  linguistic research through 2-mm isotropic 3D dynamic speech MRI optimized by sparse temporal sampling
  and low-rank reconstruction. Magnetic resonance in medicine, 89(2), 652–664.
  https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.29486
• Xing F, Jin R, Gilbert IR, Perry JL, Sutton BP, Liu X, El Fakhri G , Shosted RK, & Woo J.
  (2021). 4D magnetic resonance imaging atlas construction using temporally aligned audio
  waveforms in speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(5), 3500-
  3508. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0007064