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Lisa West
Executive Director, Community Services of Northern Kentucky
Lisa West was named Executive Director of Community Services of Northern Kentucky in 2011. Community Services includes Adult Day Care of Northern Kentucky and Speech and Hearing of Northern Kentucky. These organizations, formerly known as Cardinal Hill of Northern Kentucky, became part of the Community Foundation of Northern Kentucky in July. West’s responsibilities include day-to-day operations of Community Services of Northern Kentucky, including adult day care, Saturday respite care, speech therapy, hearing aid services, occupational therapy and developmental intervention services.
West was promoted to her new role after holding the positions of operations director, adult day care director and administrative director. She has been part of the organization since 1998. Previously, West served as emergency room operations director at Good Samaritan Hospital.
West attended Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and the Bethesda Hospital School of Nursing. She is also a certified trainer for the Northern Kentucky Training Coalition, training staff who work with disabled adults in crisis prevention. West is a member of National Adult Day Services Association, Kentucky Association of Adult Day Centers and Kentucky Association for Gerontology. She is also a member of the local Human Rights Committee and the Council on Aging.
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Michele M. Ryan
Lead Speech-Language Pathologist
Michele Ryan is the lead speech-language pathologist at Speech & Hearing of Northern Kentucky, formerly Cardinal Hill of Northern Kentucky. She joined Cardinal Hill of Northern Kentucky as a speech-language pathologist in 2001, and became lead in 2010. In her role, she manages the staff speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists and provides supervision for Clinical Fellows. Her duties also include evaluation and remediation of various forms of communication disorders for children birth to three, preschool-age children, school-age children and adults. Diagnoses and disorders commonly treated included Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, childhood apraxia of speech, Angelman syndrome, fluency disorders, expressive and receptive language disorders and central auditory processing disorders.
Ryan holds a master’s degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from University of Cincinnati and a bachelor’s degree in English from Thomas More College. She holds ASHA CCC-Speech-Language Pathology certification and is licensed by the Kentucky Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. She is a Certified Kentucky First Steps Provider.
Ryan is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association.