Elizabeth Grillo, PhD, CCC-SLP, CHSE, EMT, began her educational journey studying music at Indiana University (IU) where she earned a BM in vocal performance. While a student at IU, she took a course called Care of the Professional Voice taught by speech-language pathologist, Dr. Moya Andrews. From that course, she was inspired to pursue an MS in speech-language pathology at Teachers College Columbia University. Following her amazing clinical experiences as a speech-language pathologist in New York City, Pittsburgh, and Miami, she pursued a PhD at the University of Pittsburgh. She finished her PhD in 2006 and accepted a position at West Chester University (WCU)- Golden Rams forever! 

While at WCU, she has advanced her teaching, scholarship, and service. Her pedagogical methods have expanded to include team-based learning, interprofessional education, and simulation. She is a certified healthcare simulation educator (CHSE) and routinely conducts simulation in all her graduate courses. In addition, she is an Estill Master Trainer (EMT) facilitating an integrated implicit-explicit approach to voice training.  In scholarship, she has been supported by two National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders R15 grants that have helped her create two mobile apps, VoiceEvalU8 and VoicePractice, and to study the efficacy of the Global Voice Prevention and Therapy Model with the Estill Voice Model for student and professional teachers via telepractice. Currently, she is serving as the Editor of Perspectives of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Special Interest Groups 18 Telepractice. She received the ASHA Certificate of Recognition for Special Contributions in Higher Education in 2018 and was named an ASHA Fellow in 2025, one of the highest honors of the association.