Bruce Murdoch

Professor Bruce Murdoch is currently the Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland. He is an internationally recognized authority on acquired speech and language disorders of neurological origin. He has published eight books and in excess of 170 articles in refereed international journals in the area of motor speech and language disorders associated with a variety of neurological conditions including traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular...See more

Professor Bruce Murdoch is currently the Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland. He is an internationally recognized authority on acquired speech and language disorders of neurological origin. He has published eight books and in excess of 170 articles in refereed international journals in the area of motor speech and language disorders associated with a variety of neurological conditions including traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accidents, Parkinson's disease, brain tumors and mutliple sclerosis. The Motor Speech Research Unit, at the University of Queensland, was established by Professor Murdoch in the early 1990's and since that time, under his direction, it has become internationally recognized as one of the most productive and influential research centres of its type world-wide. The research unit attracts numerous international visitors each year and has been influential in establishing the importance of physiologically based techniques in the assessment and treatment of neurologically based communication deficits. Professor Murdoch is in high demand as a guest speaker at international conferences, having in the past three years presented invited keynote addresses at international conferences in North America, Scandinavia, South Africa, The Netherlands, Greece, the United Kingdon, and South-East Asia. See less