After a national search, Anne Marie Tharpe, Ph.D., has accepted the position of chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and associate director of the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, effective Aug. 1.
Tharpe has been with Vanderbilt since 1978 and has an excellent national/international reputation for teaching and research focused on pediatric hearing loss and how it influences overall child development.
She maintains a clinical practice in addition to running a research laboratory and teaching graduate students in the divisions of Audiology, Deaf Education and Speech-Language Pathology. Tharpe also serves as associate director of education for the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication within the Bill Wilkerson Center.
Tharpe replaces the Bill Wilkerson Center's longtime leader Fred H. Bess, Ph.D., who has served as chair of Hearing and Speech Sciences since 1978. Fred is stepping down to work as the department's director of the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication.
The Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences has a rich history. Both Vanderbilt's Audiology and Speech Pathology programs are consistently ranked among the nation's very best by U.S. News & World Report in their Best Graduate Schools rankings.
Taken from sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/news/.
Tharpe Named Chair of Hearing and Speech Sciences
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