Melissa C. Duff, PhD

Dr. Melissa C. Duff is as a speech-language pathologist and Associate Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Duff’s work focuses on the role of the hippocampal memory system in language use and processing, including the study of patients with hippocampal amnesia, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Duff earned her doctoral degree in Speech and Hearing Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Iowa. She joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2016.