2025 Speakers
Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., CCC-A
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Topics:
What is the Current Clinical Situation for Children with Developmental Disabilities?
How to Use Developmentally Informed Strategies During a Hearing Evaluation
Angela Yarnell Bonino, Ph.D., CCC-A is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed her clinical training in audiology at Vanderbilt University, and her Ph.D. and postdoctoral training at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was previously on faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Bonino’s research expertise is in characterizing human auditory development with behavioral methods, and in evaluating clinical care with big data techniques. Current research is focused on advancing hearing health care for children with developmental disabilities by identifying gaps in clinical care and improving behavioral hearing assessment procedures. Research shared in this presentation was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation.
Caitlin Sapp, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A
University of North Carolina Hospitals
Topics:
Parent Counseling in Pediatric Audiology: Creating Urgency for Intervention
Identifying and Managing Financial Barriers to Early Hearing Aid Fittings in Infants and Children
Caitlin Sapp is the head of Pediatric Audiology at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC and the director of the Early Hearing Loss Lab. She completed her Au.D. training and her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. She has extensive experience in infant hearing assessment and case management and has collaborated with state EHDI departments on quality improvement efforts related to audiology services. Her research interests include examining the factors that improve language and social outcomes for children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing, in particular malleable clinician factors like parent counseling.
2024 Speakers
Kathryn Wiseman, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A
Boystown National Research Hospital
Topic: Strategies for optimizing audibility for children with hearing loss
Kathryn Wiseman, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A is the Director of the Child Auditory Technology Lab at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Her research interests include developmental outcomes in children who are deaf or hard of hearing who use hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. Kathryn received her B.S. from Brown University in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2011. She completed her Au.D./Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Dallas, where her research and clinical work centered on outcomes of children who use cochlear implants. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Boys Town examining clinical outcomes in children with hearing aids. Her current work aims to study clinical outcomes and experimental measures across the continuum of auditory technology to enhance device candidacy, fitting, and intervention for these children and their families.
Skye Jones, Au.D., CCC-A
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Topic: Clinical Monitoring and Management of Ototoxicity and Survivorship Considerations
Skye Jones is a clinical audiologist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. She has been involved in direct patient care for over twelve years as a pediatric audiologist, focusing on ototoxic monitoring and management for hearing loss due to diagnosis and/or ototoxic treatment. She is active in clinical research, contributing as a collaborator in more than a dozen protocols within St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and working as a co-investigator on projects within St. Jude and with University of Memphis and Children’s Oncology Group.
2023 Speakers
Angela Shoup, PhD, FAAA, FNAP
Professor, The University of Texas at Dallas and Executive Director of the Callier Center
Presentation, Part 1: “Congenital Cytomegalovirus (cCMV): Knowledge is Power”
Presentation, Part 2: “Congenital Cytomegalovirus: The Role of the Audiologist in Interprofessional Family-Centered Care”
Angela Shoup, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders and a Professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. She also has an appointment as Clinical Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Shoup has published articles and textbook chapters on audiologic procedures and has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings. Among other professional positions, she served as president of the American Academy of Audiology and president of the Texas Academy of Audiology. She is currently Chair of the Guidelines and Strategic Documents Committee of the American Academy of Audiology, Chair of the Audiology Academy of the National Academies of Practice and serves on the scientific advisory committee for the National CMV Foundation.
Andrea Warner-Czyz, PhD, CCC-A
Associate Professor, The University of Texas Dallas
Presentation, Part 1: “Social-Emotional Skills in Children Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing”
Presentation, Part 2: “Speech and Language Outcomes in Children With Cochear Implants”
Andrea Warner-Czyz, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Speech, Language, and Hearing in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas. Her research centers on how children who are deaf and hard of hearing who wear cochlear implants develop, from speech and language to perception to quality of life. She employs a multifactorial approach incorporating both audiological and non-audiological factors to identify pediatric cochlear implant recipients at risk for poorer outcomes in communication or quality of life.
2022 Speakers
Linda J. Hood, PhD
Vanderbilt University
Titles: “Accurate Application of Auditory Brainstem Responses in the Pediatric Audiology Test Battery” and “Differential Diagnosis and Intervention in Patients with Auditory Neuropathy/Auditory Synaptopathy”
Linda J. Hood, Ph.D., is a Professor and Hearing Scientist in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Director of the Auditory Physiology Laboratory, and Associate Director for Research at the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She completed an NIH post‐doctoral fellowship and was a faculty member at the Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana for 24 years. She has served as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, International Key Scientist with the Australian Hearing Collaborative Research Centre (CRC), lecturer at the University of Chile, and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. Dr. Hood’s research career, supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), focuses on auditory physiology in peripheral and central systems, characterizing auditory function using objective approaches, auditory neuropathy/auditory synaptopathy, efferent auditory function, hereditary hearing loss, auditory function across the lifespan, and comparative hearing studies. She has a long history of funded research, primarily from the NIH, and also from other public and private sources. Her publications and research productivity include peer-reviewed research publications, textbooks, textbook chapters, invited review articles, and numerous scientific presentations. Dr. Hood lectures globally on topics related to her research and areas of expertise. She participates in review panels and working groups of the NIH-NIDCD, is a consultant and active participant in the work of the World Health Organization (WHO), and is an Associate Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Ear and Hearing. Dr. Hood is a Past President of the American Academy of Audiology, the American Auditory Society, and the International Society of Audiology. Among other awards, she received the Honors of the Association from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in 2018 and the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology from the American Academy of Audiology in April 2020.
Marlene Bagatto, AuD, PhD
Western University
Title: “The Challenging Opportunities of Managing Children who have Mild Bilateral or Unilateral Hearing Loss: Part 1 and 2”
Marlene Bagatto is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders and the National Centre for Audiology at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The research in her Pediatric Audiology Strategies and Systems Laboratory focusses on policy and practice integration for infant and child hearing. Dr. Bagatto is Past President of the Canadian Academy of Audiology and Chair of the Canadian Infant Hearing Task Force. She is a consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Children, Community, and Social Services’ Infant Hearing Program where protocol development, implementation, and monitoring for various components of the program are her main activities.
