Meet Our Staff

Kathleen Borowitz, M.A. CCC-SLP has been a Speech-Language Pathologist at the University of Virginia Children ’s Hospital since 1988.  She has worked in both the in and outpatient settings at the Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center and for the last 9 years, has provided acute care speech services to the pediatric units of the hospital. Kathleen also serves as the speech-language pathologist to the Craniofacial Clinic at UVa.  She completed her B.A. at Hollins College and her M.S. at Vanderbilt University . Kathleen is reachable by e-mail at kcb8t@virginia.edu or by telephone at (434) 924-8245.

Sherry L. Comer, M.S. CCC-SLP has been a speech language pathologist at the University of Virginia since 1993.  She received her B.S and M.S from James Madison University and has worked as a speech language pathologist with children since 1976.  She sees pediatric patients in the outpatient department at Kluge Children’s Rehab center for both evaluation and treatment, working with children with neurological and developmental disorders resulting in difficulty with language, articulation, fluency, voice, and feeding and swallowing. She can be reached at (434) 924-5757 or by e-mail at sc8k@virginia.edu.

Mary C. Tarbell, M.Ed, CCC-SLP aka “Polly” Tarbell is a pediatric speech-language pathologist who has worked at the Kluge Children’s Rehabilitation Center since graduation from the University of Virginia in 1989.  She is currently a therapist on the inpatient unit at KCRC but has experience in all of the service provision areas.  Her main area of concentration is the Encouragement Feeding program, an intensive day treatment program for children with feeding disorders. Contact information: 924-8242. She can be reached at mcv2w@virginia.edu.

Julie M. Pitti, M.Ed/CCC-SLPis a staff Speech-Language Pathologist at the University of Virginia Health System.  She received her B.S. and M.Ed. from the University of Virginia. Julie provides SLP services to adults, covering all the adult acute and critical care units. She also has background in home health and pediatric speech pathology. She can be reached at (434) 924-9916.

Lori Deweese Rollins, M.A., CCC-SLP has been a Speech Language Pathologist for eight years and began working as a Pediatric Speech Language Pathologist at the University of Virginia in April of 2006.  She primarily sees pediatric patients in the outpatient department at Kluge Children's Rehabilitation Center for both evaluation and treatment.  Areas of interest include pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders, pediatric brain injury, and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  She completed both her B.A. and M.A. in Communication Disorders at Marshall University.  She can be reached at ldr8x@virginia.edu.