Faculty & Staff

Ms. Gregore earned an B.S. in Communicative Disorders from WCU and a M.S. degree from Boston University.  Ms. Gregore has over 28 years experience in medical speech pathology and enjoys sharing her clinical experience with her students. Areas of interest include exercise induced vocal cord dysfunction (EI-VCD)or VCD due to GE reflux; voice disorders; esophageal or chronic dysphagia due to multiple medical/ surgical problems; and the use of modalities in the treatment of dysphagia. Current research interests include working with Dr. Grillo on the GVA; WCU Department of Athletic Training and WCU athletes on sports respiration, and studying the concepts of mentoring versus coaching in SLP clinical skill development. Ms. Gregore is currently Program Manager, the Department of Speech Pathology at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, DE.

Ms. Reynolds received a B.A. in English from Ursinus College in 1976 and an M.A. in Communicative Disorders from West Chester University in 1982. She has 26 years of experience as a practicing medical speech-language pathologist working in acute care, rehab, outpatient, long-term care, and home care settings. She is currently serving as the Clinical Manager of Speech, Dysphagia, and Audiology Services and as Assistant Administrative Director for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Services at Crozer Chester Medical Center. Her clinical passions include pediatric and adult dysphagia and neurogenic speech disorders. She is also a Reiki level II practitioner, a certified holistic health counselor and an amateur ghost hunter.

Tamara Hoffritz, MA, CCC-SLP received her B.A.in English Literature from the State University of New York at Albany and her M.A. in Communicative Disorders and Sciences from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She currently evaluates and treats children with a range of speech and language needs at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Previous clinical work included acute adult and pediatric hospital based treatment, intensive behavioral/ home based therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and consultative services to regional school districts for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Semantic-Pragmatic Language Disorders and Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Presentations have included guest lectures at Nazareth College and the University of Rochester Medical Center, and the International Meeting for Autism Research and the Children's Health Care Conference. Tamara has completed fellowship training and has served as a faculty member of the U.S. Dept. of Maternal and Child Health's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program, to develop future leaders in health care. Her research interests include transition to adulthood for individuals with developmental disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Susan Pacella earned a B.A. at Geneva College (2001) and an M.A. at West Chester University (2003), both in Communicative Disorders. After graduation from WCU, she served as a private SLP consultant to various schools through Austill's Rehabilitative Services. In the fall of 2004, she began a full time SLP position at the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District, providing evaluation and intervention services to students in kindergarten through 12th grade. In 2006 she joined WCU's Department of Communicative Disorders as an adjunct faculty member. Ms. Pacella is particularly interested in teaching student clinicians to develop effective goal writing and progress monitoring skills as these skills relate to a client's response to intervention, especially in a school-based setting. In addition to her professional work, Ms. Pacella enjoys playing the piano, singing, and spending time with her husband and their two young children, Levi and Addy.

Patricia Vaselli received her Bachelor's Degree in Speech Language Pathology and Audiology in Brazil at the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo. She worked as a private speech language pathologist and audiologist in Sao Paulo for 10 years before moving to Pennsylvania in 1996. Her work as an audiologist involved assessing the hearing of factory workers who presented with noise induced hearing loss along with educating workers and employers on how to prevent hearing losses. In 2004, Ms. Vaselli earned her M.A. from West Chester University. She then worked in the Delaware public schools as a speech-language pathologist, also providing bilingual therapy for bilingual children with language disorders. Ms. Vaselli speaks Portuguese and Spanish in addition to English. Currently she works in the West Chester Area School District providing evaluations and therapy for students from kindergarten through fifth grade.

Ms. St. George completed a B.A. (1990) and an M.A. (1996) in Communicative Disorders at WCU. She holds a CCC-SLP from ASHA and a PA State license in SLP. She has been employed as a school-based SLP since January 1991, with experience in grades K-12. Currently Ms. St. George is Speech and Language Program Supervisor for the Delaware County Intermediate Unit . Ms. George has supervised affiliation practicum students and mentored SLPs in their CFY. She is currently enrolled in Immaculata University's Supervisory Certificate in Special Education Post-Graduate Program.

Ms. Schubert received a B.S. in Education (1993) and an M.A. in Communicative Disorders (1996), both at WCU. Her previous experiences service delivery in a preschool class for children with disabilities, early intervention, and elementary school children and youth (5 to 21 years). Jackie has also worked with adults in a long-term care setting. Jackie is currently working in the public school system, providing both speech-language services to children and serving \as a consultant to districts that have not had speech and language services in the past.

Ms. Kupczyn is currently working at Parkview Elementary School which is located in Stratford New Jersey. She received her B.S. at the University of Wisconsin (1985) and her M.A. at College of New Jersey (1987) (previously- Trenton State College). Her hobbies and interests include traveling, reading, training her dog but her greatest enjoyment comes from raising her two children.