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Legal, Ethical, and Professional Issues (LEPI)

Setting the Standard for Hearing and Balance Health Care: AAA Clinical Documents in Development Information Session

LM208 - Setting the Standard for Hearing and Balance Health Care: Academy Clinical Documents in Development Information Session

Thursday, March 27, 2025
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM CST
Location: Rooms 215-216
Earn 0.1 CEUs
Ethics
Instructional Level: Fundamental

    Lead Presenter(s)

  • AS

    Angela Shoup, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Executive Director, Professor
    Callier Center for Communication Disorders, UT Dallas
    University of Texas at Dallas
    Dallas, Texas

    Disclosure(s): Financial: ELOXX Pharmaceuticals: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Nonfinancial: Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, National CMV Foundation

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    • Presenter(s)

  • Deborah L. Carlson, PhD

    Audiology Consultant
    Self-employed
    Houston, Texas

    Disclosure(s): No financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

  • JH

    Julie A. Honaker, PhD

    Audiology Section Head
    Cleveland Clinic
    Cleveland, Ohio

    Disclosure(s): Financial: No financial relationships to disclose; Nonfinancial: Salaried employee, Cleveland Clinic Member of AAA, ABS and ASHA.

  • Jodi Baxter, AuD

    Clinical Associate Professor, Audiology
    The Ohio State University
    The Ohio State University
    Columbus, Ohio

    Disclosure(s): No financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

  • Christina M. Roup, PhD (she/her/hers)

    Associate Professor
    The Ohio State University
    The Ohio State University
    Columbus, Ohio

    Disclosure(s): Financial: No financial relationships to disclose; Nonfinancial: Co-Chair of the AAA Guidelines for the Management of Adult Hearing loss Committee

  • Tricia Scaglione, AuD, MBA (she/her/hers)

    CEO/Founder
    Holistic Hearing & Wellness, LLC
    Plantation, Florida

    Disclosure(s): Financial: Cochlear America: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); TrueSilence Therapeutics: Consultant/Advisory Board (Ongoing); Nonfinancial: American Tinnitus Association Scientific Advisor TrueSilence Advisor AAAF Past Chair/BOD AAA various committees/subcommittees/ Chair of Tinnitus Guidelines ASHA representative to AAO-HNS

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    Nick Reed

    Optimal Aging Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

    Disclosure(s): No financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

  • Carole E. Johnson, AuD, PhD

    Professor
    HERO Laboratory
    University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
    Edmond, Oklahoma

    Disclosure(s): No financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

  • Anna M. Jilla, AuD, PhD

    Assistant Professor
    Lamar University
    Lamar University
    Beaumont, Texas

    Disclosure(s): Financial: Lamar University: Employment (Ongoing); Lamar University Center for Resiliency: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing); United States Department of Agriculture: Research Grant (includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received) (Ongoing): Nonfinancial: Volunteer service to American Academy of Audiology (Co-Chair, Coding and Reimbursement Committee; Co-Chair, Task Force for Health Related Quality of Life Benefits of Hearing Aids; Member, Subcommittee for Poster and Podium Presentations), American Speech-Language Hearing Association (Editorial Board Member, American Journal of Audiology), Texas Academy of Audiology (Vice-President of Professional Issues, Board of Directors), and Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission: Regional Council on Aging and Disabilities (Voting Member), Lamar Center for Resiliency (Economics and Prosperity Sub-Cluster for Excellence, Representative) • Non-profit: American Academy of Audiology Foundation, Member, Board of Trustees.

Abstract:
The Academy Guidelines and Strategic Documents Committee will present the clinical documents currently in development, review the scope of the documents, and take questions from membership.

Summary:
Audiologists are charged with being lifelong learners who stay abreast of the evolving evidence-base of our profession. Similarly, there are evidence-based protocols for development of clinical documents. The Academy’s Guidelines and Strategic Documents Committee has been implementing new processes and procedures for the development of clinical document. The session will feature the chairs of the current Academy clinical documents in development as they discuss document scope and take member questions.

Brief Summary of Clinical Takeaways:
The clinical takeaway for this session is for professionals and students to become aware of the Academy clinical guidance in development and opportunities to participate in the process.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the role of the Academy Guidelines and Strategic Documents Committee.
  • Identify the current Academy clinical documents in development.
  • Identify the impact of clinical and strategic documents on practice, research, advocacy and policy.