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Our Team
The robust AudiologyOnline course library is developed and overseen by an experienced team of audiologists and industry professionals.
Carolyn Smaka
AuD
Director of Content Strategy
April Dolan
AuD, CCC-A
CEU Administrator
Joanne Slater
AuD, CCC-A
Director, CEU Administration
Gus Mueller
PhD
Contributing Editor
Anna Smith
MS
Sr. Continuing Education Manager
Melissa Freund
BS
Sr. Continuing Education Manager
Kimberly Rojas
CLSSBB, CMP, CLP
Continuing Education Producer
Featured Presenters
AudiologyOnline instructors and guest editors are skilled clinicians and industry leaders whose courses consistently receive top ratings from our members.
David S. Haynes, MD, is Professor of Otolaryngology and Hearing and Speech Sciences, Chief of the Neurotology Division, Program Director, Neurotology Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Fellow, American College of Surgeons.
Kristine Ratliff is the Hearing Impaired Specialist for Dublin City Schools in Dublin, Ohio. She has a B.A. and M.Ed. in Deaf Education from the Ohio State University, and a Certificate of Auditory Learning (First Years) from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. She’s a certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist- Auditory Verbal Educator, and has 24 years experience teaching students with hearing loss, preschool through 12th grade.
Brian Zitelli earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. He has been privileged to speak on ototoxicity and pharmacology to students in the University of Pittsburgh Doctor of audiology program numerous times since then. In 2017, he was honored to be invited to join a panel for a featured session on the topic at the AAA convention in Indianapolis. Currently, he is employed at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Pittsburgh, PA.