Ph.D. student Kristina Bowdrie, Au.D. received Vanderbilt University’s Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences 2023 Rising Star Award. Dr. Bowdrie will present an invited lecture to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences about her research on the influence of temperament on receptive language in children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing and how children’s family environment moderates these relations.
She recently graduated with her Doctor of Audiology degree in May of 2023 and is currently working towards completing her PhD. She works as an audiologist at The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System, where she is also completing a fellowship on quality improvement in healthcare. Her interests include examining important clinic outcomes in vulnerable patient populations and assessing the implementation and effectiveness of evidence-based interventions in audiology.
Ph.D. student, Shauntelle Cannon, Au.D. received an Honorable Mention for Vanderbilt’s Rising Star Award. Dr. Cannon’s research is exploring alternate feedback paradigms that might enhance vestibular perceptual learning. The work is important because it could lead to prevention of fall-related injuries experienced by many older adults.
Dr. Cannon received her Clinical Doctorate of Audiology in 2017 from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include auditory and vestibular contributions to gait biomechanics, vestibular perception, and aging. She is recipient of the NIA Diversity Supplement Award as part of a parent R01 investigating the associations between age-related changes in vestibular perception, balance, and fall risk.
The Rising Star Award was established to promote PhD students in CSD that come from under-represented identities or perspectives, and/or students whose research interests are aligned with diversity-related issues in communication sciences and disorders.
