She serves as the Associate Director of Research in the Section of Speech Pathology and Audiology and is a lecturer at the University of Houston. Dr. Hutcheson is a is a certified Speech-Language Pathologist with a Doctorate Degree in Epidemiology. Dr. Hutcheson has authored over 50 peer-reviewed and invited articles with funding support from the National Institutes of Health, the MD Anderson Institutional Research Grant Award program, and a fellowship award from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas UT Health Innovation Training Program. Dr. Hutcheson is a Board Certified Specialist in Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders (BCS-S).