An Overview of the American Academy of Audiology Clinical Consensus Statement on Assessment of Vestibular Function in the Pediatric Population

Violette Lavender
AuD

Kristen Janky
PhD

Kristen Janky is Lead Audiologist of Vestibular Clinical Services and Director of the Vestibular and Balance Research Laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Her PhD is from the University of Nebraska. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on the effects of vestibular loss in children and special populations.

Katheryn Bachmann
PhD

Dr. Bachmann has been an audiologist for over 30 years. She completed her undergraduate studies at Miami University of Ohio before graduating from the University of Akron with her MS in Audiology. After her clinical fellowship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Dr. Bachmann attended Vanderbilt University, earning her PhD in 1996. She is currently a clinical audiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, specializing in the evaluation of dizziness and balance disorders in children, both clinically and through her research. Dr. Bachmann has co-authored several book chapters and many articles and has given numerous presentations across the country on hearing and balance disorders. Dr. Bachmann is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, where she advises student capstone projects and teaches the vestibular courses in the AuD program.

Melissa Caine
AuD

Melissa Caine, AuD, is a clinical specialist and audiologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She received her B.A. in Communication Disorders and English Literature from Loyola College in Maryland in 2004 and her AuD from Salus University in 2008. Melissa currently provides diagnostic and rehabilitative services at CHOP in both the outpatient and inpatient settings. In addition to her clinical position, Melissa is the department's lead audiologist for the Balance & Vestibular Program and coordinator of professional development/continuing education. Her areas of clinical interest include pediatric vestibular assessment, electrophysiologic assessment in the NICU population, and adolescent focused rehabilitation.

Micheal Castiglione
AuD

Dr. Castiglione is a pediatric audiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She has over 25 years of experience, most of which has been in the pediatric setting. Dr. Castiglione’s specialty areas include pediatric vestibular disorders and electrophysiology. She was integral to the set up and launch of the Pediatric Balance Center at CCHMC, which opened in 2008.  Dr. Castiglione has co-authored several articles on pediatric vestibular testing and has also given numerous presentations on this topic.

Guangwei Zhou
ScD

Guangwei Zhou, ScD, is the Clinical Director of the Balance and Vestibular Program in Boston Children's Hospital at Waltham and Assistant Professor in Otolaryngology, Harvard Medical School. His clinical research includes evoked potentials in patients with inner ear structural anomalies and cochlear implants. He is also investigating etiologies of balance and vestibular dysfunction in children. He has published over two dozen peer-reviewed paper in the field of Otology and Audiology and is known for his work on vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP), pediatric video Head Impulse Testing(vHIT), semicircular canal dehiscence (SCD) and enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA), nationally and internationally. Prior to obtaining his ScD in Audiology, Dr. Zhou attained medical degree from Beijing Medical University. He also completed his residency and research fellow training in otolaryngology.