Ph.D. Alumnae and Alumni Placements
Our Ph.D. graduates have taken diverse positions in various work settings. Please see below where they are currently.
Kara Leyzac (AuD '10, PhD '10)
Assistant Professor,
Medical University of South Carolina
Kelly King (AuD ’08, PhD ’11)
Research Audiologist and Program Officer,
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Matt Winn (AuD '10, PhD '11)
Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota
Pei-Tzu Tsai (PhD '11)
Associate Professor,
San Jose State University
Sally Gallena (PhD '12)
Associate Professor / Clinical Supervisor,
Loyola University
Cathy Torrington Eaton (PhD '14)
Assistant Professor,
UT Health San Antonio
Giovanna Morini (PhD '14)
Assistant Professor,
University of Delaware
Alessandro Presacco (PhD in NACS '16)
Post-Doctoral Associate,
Institute for Systems Research Department at the University of Maryland
Chris Heffner (PhD in NACS '17)
Assistant Professor,
University of Buffalo
Melissa D. Stockbridge (MA-PhD '18)
Research Associate
Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Amritha Mallikarju (PhD in NACS '20)
Postdoctoral Researcher,
University of Pennsylvania
Jaclyn Schurman (AuD '15, PhD '20)
Research Audiologist,
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Arifi Waked (PhD '20)
Scientific Writer and Statistician,
Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco
Brittany Jaekel (PhD '20)
Research Scientist
Starkey Hearing Technologies
Julie Cohen (AuD '12, PhD '20)
Research Audiology
Audiology and Speech Pathology Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Julianne Garbarino (PhD '21)
Speech-Language Pathologist
AmplioSpeech
Rebecca Bieber (AuD '17, PhD '21)
Defended her dissertation in July 2021