2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/15/2014 | 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 2-Part Presentation: B- Using EHDI-PALS Tools: For Tracking and Managing Audiology Facilities | Grand Ballroom 3 | 1
2-Part Presentation: B- Using EHDI-PALS Tools: For Tracking and Managing Audiology Facilities
The provision of audiological services for infant and young children requires a facility to possess the right equipment and pediatric audiology staff. EHDI-PALS, a national directory of audiology facilities, captures important facility profiles that will enable EHDI program staff to monitor and manage a state’s facility resources. An ability to visualize how audiology resources are distributed throughout a state, which facilities can provide diagnostic service for infants vs. young children, which facilities are currently reporting data to EHDI program are just a few examples of the tools now available for EHDI program personnel. We will conclude with a short discussion on the geo-spatial analysis tool we plan to build during the coming year.
- Log on and use EHDI program tools in EHDI-PALS
- Describe at least 2 EHDI program tools in EHDI-PALS
- Understand how EHDI coordinators enhance follow up resource tracking and planning
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Presenters/Authors
Winnie Chung
(Primary Presenter), Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, wchung@cdc.gov;
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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Craig Mason
(Co-Presenter), University of Maine, craig.mason@maine.edu;
Craig A. 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 $15 million in 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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Anne Oyler
(Co-Presenter), ASHA, aoyler@asha.org;
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, tammy.ohollearn@idph.iowa.gov;
Tammy O'Hollearn has been the EHDI Director for Iowa for the last 15 years. She has worked at the Iowa Department of Public Health since 2001. Ms. O’Hollearn provides administrative oversight, budget management, oversees surveillance of the newborn hearing screening and follow-up data base, as well facilitates the day-to-day management of activities to meet program goals. Ms. O’Hollearn works with many stakeholders in the community that assists Iowa EHDI in meeting program goals and strengthen the system of care for Deaf or hard-of-hearing infants. She directs data design, collection, program analyses and evaluation of the EHDI SOC. She serves on many state and national committees and facilitates the Iowa EHDI Advisory Committee. Tammy received a Link Associates Dorothy Schwartz Award in 1993 and ISHA Outstanding Service Award in 2009 and in 2016, the Iowa EHDI program received the EHDI Website of the Year Award.
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Jeff Hoffman
(Author), NCHAM, jeffhoffman.echo@gmail.com;
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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Robert Fifer
(Author), University of Miami, rfifer@med.miami.edu;
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 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 include 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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