UGA Pediatric Audiology Symposium
Saturday, September 21, 2024
2024 FEATURED SPEAKERS
Kathryn Wiseman, Au.D., Ph.D., CCC-A
Boys Town 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.
WHEN?
Saturday, September 21, 2024
WHERE?
University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education
WHO?
This symposium is designed for audiologists/professionals and audiology students who are interested in updates in pediatric audiology.
The UGA® Speech and Hearing Clinic is excited and proud to host this event!
The UGA Speech and Hearing Clinic is approved the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.6 CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy’s Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.