Alicia K Vose, PhD

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.