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Exposing Bias in ASHA Review Committees | Why Key Proposals Get Rejected

2 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a conversation (video transcript) where Hallie Bulkin and another speaker allege bias and lack of relevant expertise on ASHA review committees. They claim personal networks influence committee membership, subject-matter experts (SMEs) were rejected from committees, and that this has led to Mayo Clinic proposals being excluded or misassigned (e.g., placed in motor speech) from ASHA conference consideration.

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I also think what people need to know is that sometimes people are friends with other people. Sometimes these people get invited onto review committees that don't actually belong on review committees because to your point, they don't have the expertise to be reviewing submissions. And then they get to just decide that Mayo isn't going to have absolutely zero presence at ASHA this year. Which is exactly what's happening. Right? Two years in a row and years in row.
And I agree with this because first Ash just said, we are going to get some SMEs on these committees. Who would you recommend? And we had a whole list. And then they came back and said, yeah, nah, they don't want you on the committee. Like, we can't force them to put you on the committee. And I'm like, okay, let's see what happens with the proposals. Then the proposals go in and they bounce them around where we don't want them and specifically put them in motor speech.