Dr. Price, owner of Hearing Professional Center in Dallas, TX, has been an audiologist in private practice for almost 25 years and earned her Au.D. as a member of the first graduating class at the Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2000. When Dr. Price founded the Hearing Professional Center in 1983, she opened the first free-standing diagnostic center in Dallas.
Dr. Price has received the 3M Standard of Excellence Award, a 2005 Oticon Focus on People Award and has been named a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International, where she has been past president and a member for 18 years. She has spent over six years doing philanthropic work in Mexico and on the Amazon in Brazil. She is also a trustee for Children's Medical Center. She has been a member of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) since 1981, and also holds ADA's REAP certification. She has served on the AFA Board since 2002, and as vice chair since 2003.
Dr. Dierdre Anderson earned her Au.D. from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry, School of Audiology in 2001, and has been in private practice in Massachusetts since 1996. Two days a week, she speaks mostly Spanish, serving the Spanish population, and also works with many pediatric patients. She dispenses hearing aids to hearing-impaired patients of all ages, and is a member of both ADA and AAA.
Dr. Granville Brady holds an Au.D. from the Arizona School of Health Sciences (ASHS), and has owned a private practice in New Jersey for the past 23 years. Dr. Brady began his career as a school speech and hearing specialist, and went on to positions as manager of hearing conservation for General Electric and director of speech and hearing at the Robert Wood Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. Dr. Brady teaches business at ASHS and is a member of ADA and AAA.
Also effective Jan. 1, 2007, Veronica Heide, Au.D., will serve the AFA as vice chair, Micheal C. Hartman, Au.D., as treasurer and Susan E. Terry, Au.D., as secretary. Past chair Kenneth Lowder, Au.D., remains on the board, while James R. Carroll, Jr., Au.D., and Eric N. Hagberg, Au.D., have fulfilled their terms of board service and have transitioned to the AFA Advisory Council. David J. Coffin, Au.D., program director at Ball State University, has joined the AFA Advisory Committee, and Advisory Committee member James V. Rippy, Au.D., has completed his term of service.
The AFA is a non-profit educational foundation founded in 1989 to lead audiology's transition to a doctoring profession with the Au.D. as its unique designator.
