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Alicia K Vose

Alicia K Vose, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor; Director of Research, UF Health Jacksonville Leon L. Haley Jr., M.D., Brain Wellness Program

Department: Neurology – Jacksonville
Business Phone: (904) 244-9092
Business Email: alicia.vose@jax.ufl.edu

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About Alicia K Vose

Dr. Alicia Vose, PhD CCC-SLP is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville. With over a decade of clinical experience managing dysphagia in ICU and acute care settings, Dr. Vose leads a translational neurorehabilitation research program focused on under-recognized impairments that shape recovery after neurologic injury. Her work centers on the sensorimotor systems that support airway protection, communication, and participation, with emphasis on swallowing, cough, laryngeal function, respiratory physiology, and cognitive-communication after SCI and TBI. A defining feature of her program is a bidirectional translational pipeline that links preclinical models of cervical SCI with longitudinal human cohort studies, allowing clinical observations to drive mechanistic experiments and experimental findings to inform clinical measurement and intervention. Across this work, her lab uses physiologic and clinical phenotyping to define impairment patterns, track recovery over time, and identify patients at risk for persistent complications. Her studies are embedded within clinical care pathways at UF Health Jacksonville, supporting rapid translation into screening, referral, and rehabilitation workflows. The long-term goal of her research is to advance precision neurorehabilitation by linking mechanism, risk, and treatment selection across the continuum of recovery.

Additional Positions:

  1. Director of Research

    2025 – Current · UF Health Jacksonville Leon L. Haley Jr., M.D., Brain Wellness Program

  2. Assistant Professor

    2023 – Current · University of Florida

Related Links:
Vose Lab Website

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught

  1. SPA6581 – Special Clinical

    College of Public Health and Health Professions

  2. DEN5120C – Physiology

    College of Dentistry

Clinical Profile

Specialties

  • Speech Language Pathology

Areas of Interest

  • Aspiration Pneumonia
  • Cough
  • Dysphagia
  • Spinal Cord Trauma
  • Traumatic Brain Injury

Research Profile

Research interests include: Mechanisms Underlying Normal and Disordered Airway Protection; Swallowing and Respiratory Neuroplasticity; Acute Intermittent Hypoxia; Cervical Spinal Cord Injury

Areas of Interest

  • Neuroplasticity
  • Rehabilitation
  • Spinal cord injury rehabilitation
  • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
  • dysphagia

Publications

Academic Articles

Grants

  1. Enhancing rehabilitation in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    Active

    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NIA

  2. Mechanisms of swallowing dysfunction in a translational rodent model of chronic cervical spinal cord injury

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NATL INST OF HLTH NICHD

  3. Improving Safety and Reducing Aspiration-Related Adverse Events through a Standardized Post-Extubation Aspiration Screening Tool and Education Program in the ICU

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    UF SELF-INSURANCE PROGRAM DBA HEIC

  4. A Randomized, Sham Controlled, Double-blinded, Multicenter Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of the VentFree Respiratory Muscle Stimulator to Assist Ventilator Weaning in Critically Ill Patients – LM-VF-P3

    Active

    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding:
    LIBERATE MEDICAL via US ARMY MED RES ACQUISITION

  5. All-in-one measurement and exercise respiratory strength trainer with biofeedback and adherence tracking capability

    Active

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    NOVIS PRODUCTS via NATL INST OF HLTH NHLBI

  6. Swallowing and respiratory function in chronic spinal cord injury

    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding:
    BROOKS REHABILITATION CLINICAL RES CNTR

  7. BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH

    Role:
    Project Manager
    Funding:
    FL DEPT OF HLTH

Education

  1. NIH T32 BREATHE Postdoc Fellowship

    University of Florida

  2. Doctor of Philosophy, Rehabilitation Science

    University of Florida

  3. Master of Arts, Speech Pathology

    George Washington University

  4. Bachelor of Arts, Communication Disorders

    University of Connecticut

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(904) 244-9092
Emails:
Business:
alicia.vose@jax.ufl.edu
Administrative Manager II:
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Addresses:
Business Street:
580 W 8TH ST
 JACKSONVILLE FL 32209