Higgins, Kathy S CNM

I love helping children meet their fullest potential. I enjoy finding fun and exciting ways to promote fitness, health and function for children of all ages while also working with the families to engage everyone in a healing environment. I aim to see every patient as the individual they are and meet them where they are to best address their needs. My area of special interest is in pediatric care. Outside of work, I enjoy exercising and being outside with my family.

My long-term research goal is to develop a more complete model of the relationships between cognition and communication across the lifespan. Better understanding the relationships between communication and cognition is critical to the development of more effective treatments for high-level communication problems experienced by many men and women with neurologic communication disorders. Toward this goal, I am interested in better understanding how cognitive deficits translate into communication disorders after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and how communication outcomes may change across the lifespan.