Contemporary Concepts in Pediatric Vestibular Assessment and Management, presented in partnership with Seminars in Hearing

Sharon Cushing
MD FRCSC

Katheryn Bachmann
PhD

Katheryn "Kay" Bachmann, Ph.D. has been an audiologist for 27 years and is currently the Coordinator of Research for the Pediatric Balance Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. She attended Miami University (Ohio) as an undergraduate and earned her M.S. from the University of Akron before earning her PhD from Vanderbilt University.  Dr. Bachmann specializes in the evaluation of dizziness and balance disorders in children, both clinically and through her research at Cincinnati Children’s. She has co-authored a number of articles and book chapters in the area of pediatric hearing and balance and has given numerous presentations in her career. Dr. Bachmann is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, where she advises student capstone projects and teaches the vestibular courses to AuD candidates.

Violette Lavender
AuD

Jennifer B. Christy
PhD PT

Jennifer Braswell Christy, PT, PhD is Associate Professor and DPT Program Director at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Christy has been a faculty member at UAB since 2004 and teaches Neuroscience, Scientific Inquiry, Pediatrics and Vestibular Rehabilitation in the DPT program. Dr. Christy is the Director of Research for the APTA Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy. Her primary area of research is in the development of innovative intervention methods to improve gaze stability and balance in children with vestibular-related impairments. Related to this area of research, Dr. Christy teaches numerous continuing education courses in the U.S. and abroad. 

Steven M. Doettl
AuD, PhD

Dr. Doettl is a Professor, clinical supervisor and practicing audiologist in the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, College of Health Professions, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He is the Coordinator of the University of Tennessee Hearing and Speech Center Dizziness Clinic, which provides clinical vestibular assessments for infants to adults. He is also the Director of the Vestibular and Balance Laboratory with specific research interests focusing on accuracy and efficiency of vestibular assessment as well as assessment in the pediatrics and in the hearing-impaired populations. Dr. Doettl has presented and published recently on the international, national, regional, and local levels regarding vestibular assessment and its relation to traumatic brain injuries, cochlear implantation, pediatric vestibular assessment, BPPV, and interdisciplinary approaches to dizziness. He is a current member of the American Balance Society and serves on several Editorial Boards for peer review. 

Devin L. McCaslin
PhD

Devin McCaslin is the Director of the Vestibular and Balance Program at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. He has authored and coauthored publications that cover the areas of tinnitus, dizziness, auditory function, and outcome measures development. He is also the author of the textbook VNG/ENG (Plural).  Dr. McCaslin’s major academic, clinical and research interests relate to clinical electrophysiology, tinnitus, and vestibular assessment and management.  He is currently a co-principal investigator on a National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders funded grant investigating the high frequency aspects of vestibular function. Dr. McCaslin has served on the American Balance Society Board of Directors, American Academy of Audiology Board of Directors, and is the past president of the American Balance Society. He currently serves as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, sits on the American Auditory Society Board of Directors.

Kristen L. Janky
PhD

Dr. Kristen Janky is Clinical Coordinator of Vestibular Services and Director of the Vestibular and Balance 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.  

Amanda I. Rodriguez
PhD, AuD

Dr. Amanda Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Concussion and Vestibular Evaluation Laboratory at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). She received her AuD-PhD from Texas Tech University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Her research interests include examining the effects of sports concussion on the vestibular system and implications of chronic vestibular loss on behavior and lifestyle. Dr. Rodriguez is a practicing vestibular audiologist and coordinates the vestibular and concussion services for the UNL Barkley Speech, Language, and Hearing Clinic and the Nebraska Athletic Department.