Elsbeth Brown - Co-Presenter
RI Parent Information Network
Credentials: AS
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Elsbeth is the Family Resource Specialist for the Rhode Island Hearing Assessment program. Elsbeth is the Mom of two snd has a son who has profound hearing loss. |
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Liza Then - Co-Presenter
Rhode Island Department of Health
Credentials: N/A
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Liza is the EHDI coordinator for Rhode Island. |
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Betty Vohr - Co-Presenter
Women & Infants Hospital
Credentials: MD
Other Affiliations: Association of University Centers on Disabilities.
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Betty R. Vohr, MD has been the director of Women & Infants Hospital’s Neonatal Follow-up Clinic since 1974 and medical director of the Rhode Island Hearing Assessment Program since 1990. She has been the national coordinator of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network follow-up studies since 1990. Dr. Vohr’s primary clinical and research interests focus on improving the long-term outcomes of high-risk premature infants and infants with hearing loss. Dr. Vohr is currently participating in studies investigating the outcomes of premature infants and the outcomes of infants with hearing loss. She has published 200 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, as well as numerous textbook chapters and has been an invited speaker throughout the country and the world.
Dr. Vohr played an instrumental role in the development of the Rhode Island Hearing Assessment Program (RIHAP), which was established in 1990. Based at Women & Infants, RIHAP became the first public health program in the United States to achieve universal newborn hearing screening for all infants born in Rhode Island. After the project gained momentum, Dr. Vohr and her colleagues were invited to present the findings at an NIH Consensus Development Conference, which subsequently recommended that all babies in the United States be screened for hearing loss. She is a recipient of the Antonia Brancia Maxon award for EHDI Excellence, has served as a member of the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing, and recently received the Stan and Mavis Graven’s Leadership Award for Outstanding Contributions to Enhancing the Physical and Developmental Environment for High-Risk Infants and their Families.
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Sherri Lee Moniz - POC,Co-Presenter
RHODE ISLAND HEARING ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
Credentials: Doctor of Audiology Au.D
CCC-A, F-AAA
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Sherri Lee Moniz, Au.D, is the Program Coordinator for the Rhode Island Hearing Assessment Program. Her duties include developing and managing the clinical components of the hospital and state-wide RIHAP hearing screening program for infants. She interprets hearing screenings conducted throughout the state, provides patient referral sources and coordinates audiology networks. She oversees staff as well as technical staff at screening sites throughout the state of Rhode Island. She facilitates the educational annual RIHAP seminar, coordinates research activities and interfaces with statewide agencies such as Department of Health, Early Intervention, Newborn Screening Task Force, EHDI and Kidsnet. Prior to her position she was a clinical audiologist in the Department of Audiology at Women & Infants Hospital supervising the hearing screening staff, conducting central auditory processing testing, diagnosing and managing hearing loss in the pediatric and geriatric populations . She received her clinical doctorate from University of Pittsburgh in April 2008
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Richard Lupino - Co-Presenter
RI Dept of Health
Credentials: AS
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Rich recieved an AS degrees from Community College of RI in Chemistry and an AS from New England Tech in Computer Science. He currently is the data manager for the Rhode Island EHDI data, as well as for other newborn and early childhood datasets. |
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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