Elkins Park, PA – The Salus University Alumni Association has announced its 2015 award recipients—two of the three being audiologists who have largely contributed to the profession. The Alumni Association presents its annual and special recognition awards to notable alumni and friends of Salus University.
Tomi Thibodeaux Browne, AuD ’04, has been named the Salus University Audiology Alumna of the Year. This award is presented to an alumnus who has made constructive contributions to the profession and the Salus University Osborne College of Audiology. Dr. Browne is a humanitarian, activist and the founder of HEARt of the Village—a non-profit organization which works with HIV+ children and those orphaned by AIDS and raises awareness of the connection between poverty and disease.
Judith A. Creuz, AuD, CCC-A, has received the Alumni Association’s Special Recognition Award. This award is a special recognition of an individual’s contributions to Salus University, their profession or the community and is given only when merited. Dr. Creuz, a 2006 Salus University graduate, is currently a clinic coordinator and Communication Sciences and Disorders professor at Penn State University. She has experience as a clinical audiologist for otolaryngology practices, an itinerant speech therapist for preschool through 12th grade and as an on-call audiologist for Rutgers University’s audiology clinic.
About Salus University:
Salus University, founded as the Pennsylvania College of Optometry in 1919, today is a diversified, globally recognized professional academic center of learning that offers a wide range of degree programs in the professions of Optometry, Audiology, Physician Assistant, Public Health, Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Biomedicine and Occupational Therapy. The University has more than 1,100 students, including PhD candidates, and more than 10,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, please visit www.salus.edu.
