Lafayette, IN - Connecticut audiologist Margaret Pohlman has won the last of three 2007 Audiology Foundation of America (AFA) postcard scholarships to pursue Au.D. distance education. ReSound sponsored the postcard and Pohlman's $1,000 scholarship.Pohlman has been an audiologist for 20 years. She has spent the last nine years at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT, where she works as a clinical audiologist providing diagnostic services for pediatric through geriatric patients. She is also the program coordinator for the hospital's Universal Infant Hearing Screening program. She will soon begin the distance education Au.D. program at the Arizona School of Health Sciences.
The AFA is a non-profit foundation founded in 1989 to lead audiology's transition to a doctoring profession with the Au.D. as its unique designator. Scholarship programs such as these help further its commitment to fostering the education and training of audiologists to meet the needs of those with impaired hearing.
