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.

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.

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.

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.