2025 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 9-11, 2025 • Pittsburgh, PA
Award Winner/Nominee Details 2023
Lisa Hunter
It is with great enthusiasm that I nominate Dr. Lisa L. Hunter for the 2023 Antonia Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence. Lisa has been a true champion for EHDI since the very beginning of her career and has made numerous contributions to advancing diagnosis of congenital hearing loss. Her work in both tympanometry and otoacoustic emissions testing has informed the field of developmental trajectories of these measures. She has contributed to developing new immittance and electrophysiologic technologies and assessment approaches with normative data to evaluate the auditory system of infants that expedite early hearing detection and intervention. Lastly, she has remained a steadfast champion of evidence-based practice by not only developing and informing our field of these technologies, but also leading a grassroots effort to challenge audiologists to effectively use these technologies to expedite diagnosis. Her contributions to the advancement of audiology have led (and continues to lead) to significant improvements in EHDI programs.
Lisa has approached her contributions to our field always with the child and family in mind. Her focus on family-centered care and support has been central to her overall body of work. She has used novel approaches to reach families who have been lost-to-follow-up through partnership with governmental agencies, most notably the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant, and Children (WIC). She continues to identify how to best support families of children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing by conducting community-engaged research and implementing family-focused interventions to increase awareness of the importance of newborn hearing screening and reduce loss-to-follow-up. She achieves optimal outcomes by having a keen insight into family needs during the screening, diagnosis, and early intervention phases of the EHDI process.
Lastly, Lisa makes her largest contribution to EHDI excellence through mentorship. She is involved with undergraduates, graduate students, professionals in their early career as well as seasoned veterans, providing constructive insights and sharing a knowledge base about EHDI that is second to none. She is selfless with her time, being engaged in mentorship through the University of Cincinnati Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program, the graduate program at UC that educates both AuD and PhD students, and with professionals throughout the country that she guides individually. It is her mentorship of students and professionals that will have the most lasting impact well beyond her own career that makes her particularly worthy of this prestigious award.
Thank you for your kind consideration of Dr. Lisa L. Hunter for the 2023 Antonia Brancia Maxon Award in EHDI Excellence. I am happy to expand on Lisa's worthy attributes as it relates to this nomination at any time.