{"id":35310,"date":"2025-06-02T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=35310"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T23:51:21","slug":"lori-geist","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/people\/lori-geist\/","title":{"rendered":"Lori Geist, PhD, CCC-SLP"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":35311,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[36],"class_list":["post-35310","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-clds","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Geist","ud_first_name":"Lori","ud_gallery_summary":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Dr. Geist is a certified speech-language pathologist with an emphasis in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). 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