Editorial Team

Journal Manager

Sara Tapia
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Director and academic of the Departmento de Fonoaudiología. Professor Tapia obtained her Master's degree in Community Psychology from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Chile and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Psychoexpressive Therapies and Art Therapy. In addition to being the author and co-author of at least 10 articles, she has contributed to book chapters and the creation and dissemination of educational manuals. Additionally, she consistently serves as a reviewer for articles in various national and international journals. As an active researcher, Professor Tapia holds the position of Director of the Department of Speech Therapy at the University of Chile. Her research focuses primarily on analyzing speech therapy practices in different areas of the healthcare system, as well as the role and competencies for work in palliative care and end-of-life care.

Editor in Chief

Andrea Helo
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Andrea Helo is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Therapy and the Department of Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. Her research focuses on the role of cognitive skills in vocabulary development in children with typical and atypical development. She has served as the editor-in-chief of the Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología since 2018.

Co-editor in Chief

Carmen Julia Coloma
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Dra in Psychology from the University of Granada and tenured professor in the Department of Speech Therapy and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Education at the University of Chile. Her main research line addresses reading in children with language disorders. Currently, she is studying and proposing intervention programs to support linguistic skills necessary for reading. Her research work has been disseminated in various national and international publications.

Section Editors [and scientific subject]

Adrian Fuente [audiology]
Université de Montréal, Canada

Dr Fuente is an Associate Professor at the School of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal and a lab director in the centre de recherche de l’Institut universtaire de gériatrie de Montréal. In addition, Dr Fuente is a Full Professor at the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Universidad de Chile. Adrian completed is PhD at the University of Hong Kong where he investigated the effects of organic solvents on the human auditory system with a special emphasis on the central auditory nervous system. He then moved to Australia where he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Queensland. As a postdoctoral research fellow he investigated age-related changes in the central auditory nervous system. Later at this University he became an NHMRC senior research officer. Dr Fuente has served as an editor for the audiology section of Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología since 2019.

Macarena Bowen [audiología]

Assistant professor at the Departamento de Fonoaudiología, Universidad de Chile. Audiologist with a Diploma in Clinical Audiology and PhD candidate in Linguistics - Audiology Section, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. Master in Neuroscience from Universidad de Chile, where they investigate the role of auditory efferent system in crossmodal selective attention. They PhD project aims to characterize hidden hearing loss by means of objective and psychoacoustics measures in young people. At Universidad de Chile, they research focused on recreational noise-induced hearing loss and it's perceptual consequences in young and adults. In addition, they investigate clinical practices in tinnitus management in Chile and the evidence on tinnitus treatment.

Marco Guzmán [voice]
Universidad de Los Andes, Chile

Dr. Guzman is a voice pathologist and singer with more than fifteen years of clinical and academic experience. He received his Ph.D. in Speech Techniques and Vocology from the University of Tampere, Finland.  He also holds a certification in vocology from the University of Iowa and National Center for Voice and Speech (USA). Dr. Guzman joined the faculty at the Universidad de los Andes, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders in 2018 following a 15-year academic career at the University of Chile. He also works as a clinician in the Department of Otolaryngology, Las Condes Clinic, Chile. Moreover, He joined the University of Tampere (Finland) as Adjunct Professor in 2018. Dr. Guzman is also a Guest Lecturer at Dr. Katherine Verdolini Voice Lab meetings, University of Delaware. USA.

Marcelo Saldías [voz]
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Drina Álvarez [orofacial myofunctional therapy/disorders]
Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile

Silvia Martínez [communication and cognition disorders in adults]
Universidad de la Coruña, España

Dr. Martínez-Ferreiro is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Neuro-Psycho-Linguistics Lab at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès. Her  research examines acquired language disorders cross-linguistically focusing on the characterization of underrepresented languages and the adaptation of assessment tools. After completing her PhD in Cognitive Science and Language at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona in 2010, where she was awarded the Extraordinary PhD prize, she served as a researcher at different European universities including the University of Copenhagen, the University of Groningen, and the University of Barcelona. Dr. Martínez-Ferreiro has been a reviewer for different indexed international journals since 2009 and she has served as an editor of the series Studies in Language and Mind since 2016. She has joined the editorial team of the Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología in 2021.

Macarena P. Martínez [deglutition]
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Professor in Universidad de Chile, PhD candidate in Food and Nutrition, Universidad de Chile and Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, Universidad de Chile. Macarena P. Martínez is a Speech-Language Pathologist from Universidad de Chile, with more than ten years of clinical experience in rehabilitation of communication, cognition, and deglutition disorders. Member of the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) Reference Group of Chile (Chile IDDSI IRG). Her research focuses on food engineering applications to deglutition disorders, as well as in food texture and rheology.

Manuel del Campo [training and job speech-language therapy]

Director of the Speech Therapy program at Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez. He graduated in 2012 from the Universidad del Bío-Bío and obtained a Master's degree in Public Health, mention in Epidemiology, from the Andrés Bello Public Health Institute in 2018. He has studies in Methods and Determinants of Health, Health Policy Management, Epidemiology and Clinical Research. He has served as an academic for several professional schools at the undergraduate level and has been part of two postgraduate academic cores. Additionally, through the direction of projects and processes, he has worked in the areas of management and research. His research focuses on the role of speech therapy in Public Health and educational innovation in Health Sciences.

Christian Peñaloza [sociocultural and community-based approaches]
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Verónica Vidal [children comunication and language]
Universidad de los Andes, Chile

Henry Angulo [children comunication and language]

Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica.

Dr. Henry Angulo-Jiménez is an associate professor at the School of Modern Languages of the University of Costa Rica, where he teaches courses on phonetics, oral communication, qualitative research, pronunciation instruction, and English grammar. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he has several ongoing research projects focusing on autism and foreign language learning as well as pronunciation instruction. He holds a Bachelor's degree in English Teaching and a Master's degree in Linguistics from the University of Costa Rica, and in 2020 he got his PhD in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he specialized in autism and bilingualism.

Anna Tendera [children comunication and language]
Bloorview Research Institute (BRI) Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Canada

Editorial Board

Gerardo Aguado
Universidad de Navarra, España

Nina Crespo
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile

Marta Infante
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Hernán León
Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Mariangela Maggiolo
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Rodolfo Miralles
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Andrés Ortega
Clínica Las Condes, Chile

Irene Queiroz Marchesan
Universidad Católica de São Paulo, Brasil

Pía Villanueva
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Franz Zenker
Clínica Barajas, España

María Fernanda Lara
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Stephanie Daniels
University of Huston, USA

Suely Master
São Paulo State University, Brasil

Llorenç Andreu
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, España

Monica Sanz-Torrent
Universitat de Barcelona, España

Claudia Araya Castillo
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Claudia Arancibia
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Editorial Production

Josué Pino
Universidad de Chile, Chile

Master in Literature with a specialization in Linguistics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Bachelor in Hispanic Letters from the same institution. He has forged his academic and professional path focused on the study of language, from the phonetic aspect centered on innovation and speech technologies. Since 2015, he has served as an academic in the Department of Speech Therapy of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad de Chile. He has taught courses at various Chilean universities and has been a member of the Board of the Sociedad Chilena de Fonoaudiología. Since 2017, he has been the Editorial Producer of the Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología.

María Teresa Bertucci Mora [Traductora]

Translator for Revista Chilena de Fonoaudiología, as well as for Gear4music (UK). With a degree in Speech-Language Therapy from Universidad de Chile and experience in the areas of voice and music, as well as in academia. Currently working as a translator specializing in academic articles, as well as in web content in the fields of music and mental health, with special interest in social sciences, social justice, and gender issues.

Mirko Martinic [Diseñador]