Robert C. Fifer PhD

Robert C. Fifer, Ph.D., is an associate professor and director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Mailman Center for Child Development in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Fifer received his B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in speech-language pathology with a minor in deaf education. His M.A. degree in audiology is from Central Michigan University, and his Ph.D. degree in audiology and bioacoustics is from Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Fifer's clinical and research interests focus on the areas of auditory evoked potentials, central auditory processing, early detection of hearing loss in children, and auditory anatomy and physiology. His nonclinical interests focus on health care economics.

Dr. Fifer is a past president of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a former member of the Health Care Economics Committee of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and the ASHA representative to the American Medical Association's Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee for the Relative Value Update Committee. He also served as ASHA's representative to the American Medical Association's Practice Expense Advisory Committee from 2002 until 2014.

Additional responsibilities at the state level include serving as a consultant to the Florida Department of Health's Children's Medical Services and to Florida Medicaid, and as the audiology representative to the Genetics and Newborn Screening Advisory Council.