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Patricia Denner Cayne, PhD is a speech and language learning therapist who worked at the League for the Hard of Hearing, Kennedy Child Study Center, and Marymount Manhattan College. She studied with Dr. Anderson at NY's Mount Sinai Hospital learning to perform neuroanatomy autopsies. Her expertise is teaching language to preschoolers who are the deaf or neurologically impaired. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania College for Women, as well as master's degrees in both Speech Pathology and Educational Psychology from Columbia University, where she also received a PhD in Psychology. She is a life member of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA).[1] She was an active member of the following boards: The U.S. National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH/NICDCD), the 92nd St Y, and The NY League for the Hard of Hearing.[1] Dr. Cayne has also been on the advisory boards of Sharsheret,[2] the Deafness Research Foundation (DRF), Sonomax Technologies Inc.,[1] the Next for Autism,[3] the Food Allergy Initiative (FAI),[4] Hearing Health Foundation,[5] and Columbia Presbyterian's Gray Matters.[6] Dr. Cayne's hobbies are decorative painting and competitive bridge. She won her first North American National tournament, the Jacoby Open Swiss Teams, in March 2017. In the 90's, with Kathie Wei-Sender, she organized the bridge matches between Corporate America vs. U.S. Congress and the House of Lords and the House of Commons. In 1969, Patricia Denner met James Cayne, a national bridge competitor, at a bridge tournament. After Pat gave him an ultimatum: "Get a real job or find a new girlfriend," he joined Bear Stearns as a retail broker. Awards As an advocate for breast cancer patients she was awarded the Third Annual Roz and Les Goldstein Unsung Hero Award in 2009.[7] She was honored by the Hineni organization for hosting the Hineni Torah study classes given by Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis. The Food Allergy Initiative honored Dr. Cayne for her participation in alerting the country to deaths from anaphylaxis.