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The robust AudiologyOnline course library is developed and overseen by an experienced team of audiologists and industry professionals.
Carolyn Smaka
AuD
Editor-in-Chief
April Dolan
AuD, CCC-A
CEU Administrator
Joanne Slater
AuD, CCC-A
Director, CEU Administration
Gus Mueller
PhD
Contributing Editor
Anna Smith
MS
Continuing Education Manager
Melissa Freund
BS
Sr. Continuing Education Manager
Christy Huynh
AuD
Managing Editor
Caitlin Grefe
Instructional Technology Specialist
Kimberly Rojas
CLSSBB, CMP, CLP
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Featured Presenters
AudiologyOnline instructors and guest editors are skilled clinicians and industry leaders whose courses consistently receive top ratings from our members.
Dr. Jackie Clark joined the UT Dallas' Audiology Program faculty in 1997, and is currently Clinical Professor UT Dallas' School of Brain & Behavior Sciences. In addition she is the Immediate Past President of the American Academy of Audiology, the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Coalition for Global Hearing Health. She also has been awarded an appointment as Research Scholar with The University of The Witwatersrand, School of Speech and Hearing Therapy in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Jamie Herskovitz received her Bachelor and Science degree in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and received her Doctorate of Audiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed her final year of clinical training at the University of Chicago and specializes in diagnosing and treating hearing loss in the adult population.
Dr. Joseph Montano is a Professor of Audiology and Director of Hearing and Speech at Weill Cornell Medicine. He received his Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University and M.A. from New York University. Dr. Montano is licensed as an Audiologist in New York State and holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-A) and is a Fellow through the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA). He served as ASHA Vice President for Standards/Ethics in Audiology and is a Past President of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology. In addition to numerous presentations and publications, he is the co-editor of the book Adult Audiologic Rehabilitation 3rd Edition (Plural Publishing).