North Carolina LEND Audiology Trainees Receive Poster Award at Annual Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference

5/7/20

Four NC-LEND students from the Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received an award for ‘best poster' at the national 2020 Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) conference in Kansas City, Missouri, in March. The ongoing project, which is focused on improving hearing screening in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), is a collaboration between NC-LEND and the North Carolina EHDI program, NC Division of Public Health. The LEND audiology trainees include Jane Khin, Shannon Muzio, Stephanie Ortega, and Katie Sobon. The project is mentored by Dr. Jackson Roush, Professor in the UNC Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Dr. Marcia Fort, Unit Manager for Genetics and Newborn Screening, NC Division of Public Health. The NC-LEND program is based in the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, UNC School of Medicine.