ABSTRACT
Chris Code is one of the foremost scholars in aphasiology today, and has advanced the field in many ways. Over a professional career that has spanned nearly 30 years, he has authored or co-authored more than 120 publications and has served as a faculty member or research Fellow in eight institutions of higher learning in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Europe. Importantly, he was the Founding Editor of Aphasiology: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal in 1987 and he has continued to serve as Editor in Chief of that journal. When looking back over the career of a colleague like Chris, there are many achievements that may be highlighted. For example, he has effectively trained scores of students around the world, and he has employed his considerable talents as an editor, editorial board member and reviewer for no less than 16 journals and book series. The measure of Chris Code as a professional, however, must encompass several other areas as well. First, he has produced an impressive list of research and clinical publications that have influenced several fields, but especially clinical aphasiology. His enthusiasm for his work comes through in these publications as he has advanced our understanding of the areas of aphasia, phonetics, the role of the right hemisphere in speech and language, psychosocial adjustments to brain damage, patient rights issues, and traumatic brain injury. Indeed, a survey of his publications shows contributions in at least 18 distinct research areas in the human communication sciences and disorders. Second, he has been an enthusiastic collaborator with a network of colleagues that spans the United Kingdom, North American, Europe, and Australia. Starting with his earliest collaborations with Müller and Ball in the early 1980s until his most recent articles and book projects, Chris Code has worked closely with no fewer than 60 professionals in his research activities. In these collaborations, he has functioned both as a colleague of equal standing and as a mentor for younger colleagues. Finally, Chris Code has had a galvanizing impact on the field of clinical aphasiology as a savant, a motivator, and an impresario of trends that have resulted in several rather significant developments in the discipline. Despite all his other
accomplishments, this last area may be his most important contribution of all.
