Winnie Chung - Primary Presenter
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Credentials: Au.D
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Winnie Chung, Au.D, a Health Scientist with CDC, is the subject matter expert with the Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) team. Winnie Chung has been an audiology provider in various clinical setting from 1990 to 2009. She began her involvement in EHDI in 2001 providing outpatient hearing screening and diagnostic for newborns at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco and Oakland. From 2004 to 2009, besides coordinating Rhode Island state newborn hearing screening program, she also provided audiological services in the tertiary neonatal intensive care unit and managed the audiology outpatient clinic at Woman & Infants' Hospital. She joined CDC as a health scientist in April of 2009 providing technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigating public health related issues for the CDC-EHDI team. |
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Craig Mason - Co-Presenter
University of Maine
Credentials: Ph.D
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Craig Mason, Ph.D. is a Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods at the University of Maine. He received his PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the University of Washington and his interests include informatics, newborn hearing loss, and quantitative methods. Dr. Mason has been PI or Co-PI on numerous grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Department of Education. In addition, he has published, presented, and taught on multivariate analysis, multi-level modeling, epidemiological analysis, structural equation modeling, and growth modeling. He has been invited to present on methodology and informatics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, and other national organizations. |
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Anne Oyler - Co-Presenter
ASHA
Credentials: AuD, CCC-A
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Anne L. Oyler, AuD, CCC-A is an Associate Director of Audiology Professional Practices at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. In this position, she is responsible for representing and serving ASHA’s audiology and speech-language pathology members through a variety of professional activities. Her primary areas of expertise include pediatric and educational audiology. Over the past 28 years, Dr. Oyler has held clinical, academic and research positions. For eight of those years (1999-2007), she served as a consultant to the EHDI program in the state of Mississippi where she participated in the areas of program development and professional and family education.
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Tammy O'Hollearn - Author
Iowa Department of Public Health
Credentials: LBSW
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Tammy O’Hollearn, LBSW serves as the state coordinator for Iowa’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention program and program director for the CDC EHDI grant. She has been in this role for the last seven and a half years. Ms. O’Hollearn oversees all grant activities including: infrastructure building; training and use of the EHDI web based data system (eSCREENER Plus), developing partnerships with early intervention, medical home and audiological service providers; program evaluation and analysis. Prior to 2006, she was involved with early intervention programming, contract management and program development within the Iowa Department of Public Health. |
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Jeff Hoffman - Author
NCHAM
Credentials: MS, CCC-A
Other Affiliations: NCHAM, Utah State University
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Jeff Hoffman is the Outreach Coordinator for the Early Childhood Hearing Outreach (ECHO) Initiative at NCHAM, Utah State University. Jeff has many years of experience serving as a state EHDI coordinator and working within Head Start. As an audiologist, Jeff's combined experience affords him to be a valuable resource to state EHDI programs and Head Start grantees as they build collaborations to support quality hearing screening and follow-up practices. |
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Robert Fifer - Author
University of Miami
Credentials: Ph.D.
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Robert C. Fifer, is the Director of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology at the Mailman Center for Child Development, University of Miami School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in Speech-Language Pathology with a minor in Deaf Education. His M.A. is from Central Michigan University in Audiology, and his Ph.D. is from Baylor College of Medicine in Audiology and Bioacoustics. Dr. Fifer’s clinical and research interests focus on the areas of auditory evoked potentials, central auditory processing, early detection of hearing loss in children, and auditory anatomy and physiology. He is a Past-President of the Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, a member of ASHA’s Health Care Economics Committee, and the ASHA representative to the American Medical Association’s Health Care Professions Advisory Committee for the Relative Value Utilization Committee in addition to being ASHA’s representative to the AMA’s Practice Expense Advisory Committee. |
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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Receives Speaker for Teaching and speaking from Mississippi Speech and Hearing Association.
Receives Consulting fee for Consulting from Duke University.
Receives Speaker for Teaching and speaking from Palm Springs Hearing Seminar.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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