Robyn K. Dean, M.A., C.I/C.T., was appointed to the faculty of the UofR School of Medicine in 1999, in recognition of her scholarship in the interpreting field and leadership in the education of interpreters, medical students, and other health care professionals.  She has been an interpreter for 16 years, with particular service experience in healthcare and mental health settings. Ms. Dean holds a BA in ASL Interpreting and an MA in Theology.

Ms. Dean's application of demand-control theory to sign language interpreting, as originally described in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (Winter, 2001), has been the topic of numerous workshops, publications, and grant projects nationally and internationally. Ms. Dean's work is funded by several federal grants, one which infuses demand-control schema curricular materials into fifteen interpreter training programs across the US and another which studies the effectiveness of observation-supervision in mental health interpreter training.

For a listing of Ms. Dean's publications, see the publications area of the DWC website.