Clinical Educators’ Academy

Dr. Amy Badstubner, AuD, CPC, is a certified professional coach, leadership and people strategy advisor, and co-owner of dB Coaching Group, a firm that helps healthcare organizations build stronger leaders and healthier team cultures. Before moving into coaching full-time, she founded and grew an audiology private practice built around a whole-patient care model that was later recognized and replicated across the industry, leading it successfully through sale and transition. With more than 20 years of experience in business ownership, leadership development, and professional coaching, she works with healthcare teams to strengthen communication, accountability, and performance, and has published numerous articles, presented extensively, and been an invited guest on several industry podcasts.

Disclosure: Co-owner of dB Coaching Group.

Kari Dermer, AuD, CPC, is an audiologist, certified career and leadership coach and co-owner of dB Coaching Group, a leadership and people strategy firm supporting the hearing healthcare industry. Before moving into coaching full-time, she served as Founding Director of a children's hearing program at a large academic teaching hospital, where she held a faculty appointment as assistant professor, led a multidisciplinary team of audiologists and allied health professionals, and mentored AuD students. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in leadership, mentorship, and professional coaching, she helps leaders and teams across healthcare build the communication and leadership skills needed to thrive in high-demand clinical environments.

Disclosure: Co-owner of dB Coaching Group.

Jennifer Phelan, AuD, CCC-A, is Clinic Director and Clinical Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Jennifer has a commitment to use of evidence-based practices in her care of patients and education of the audiology graduate clinicians she precepts. Her clinical focus encompasses many areas of audiology with a passion for serving the pediatric population and individuals with developmental differences. As an educator, Jennifer has a strong interest in the science of teaching and learning as it relates to clinical precepting. Jennifer serves as CAPCSD's Clinical Educators' Academy Committee Chair.

Disclosures:

• CAPCSD Clinical Educators' Academy: Committee Member: Receives complimentary annual conference registration, three nights' hotel stay
• University of Massachusetts Amherst: Employee: Receives salary.

Colleen Gargan, PhD, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Director of the Gebbie Speech-Language Clinic at Syracuse University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses, provides clinical supervision, and coordinates clinical placements on- and off-campus. Colleen serves on CAPCSD's Clinical Educators' Academy Committee.

Disclosures:

• CAPCSD Clinical Educators' Academy: Committee Member: Receives complimentary annual conference registration, three nights' hotel stay
• Syracuse University: Employee: Receives salary.

Madison Howe, AuD, CCC-A, CH-AP, is Program Director and Assistant Professor for the Doctor of Audiology Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Before becoming Program Director, Dr. Howe served as Director of Clinical Education and continues to oversee the program's externship experiences. She also serves as Chair of ASHA's Multicultural Issues Board, Co-Chair for the 2028 ASHA Convention, and a member of the Praxis National Advisory Council. Dr. Howe is passionate about preparing the next generation of audiologists through innovative clinical education and intentional preceptor development. Her work focuses on empowering preceptors to become exceptional clinical educators while helping students develop strong clinical reasoning and professional identity. She is particularly interested in identifying pediatric audiology workforce needs and designing educational strategies that prepare future pediatric audiologists to meet the evolving needs of children and families.

Disclosures:

• CAPCSD Clinical Educators' Academy: Committee Member: Receives complimentary annual conference registration, three nights' hotel stay
• University of Arkansas for Medical Science: Employee: Receives salary.
• Educational Testing Service (ETS) Praxis National Advisory Council: Member: Receives stipend.
• ASHA Multicultural Issues Board: Chair: Receives no compensation
• ASHA 2028 Convention: Co-Chair: Receives no compensation
• ASHA Scientific and Professional Education Board (SPEB): Member: Receives no compensation

Leanna Lawrence, MHS, CCC-SLP, is an associate clinical professor at the University of Missouri in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences and has been a clinical educator at MU since 2006. She also teaches courses at the undergraduate (i.e., Clinical Observations) and graduate (i.e., Issues in Professional Practice, Clinical Methods, Clinical and Diagnostic Practicums) levels and coordinates the outplacements for their program's graduate students. She enjoys being active in CAPCSD and currently serves on CAPCSD's Clinical Educators' Academy Committee.

Disclosures:

• CAPCSD Clinical Educators' Academy: Committee Member: Receives complimentary annual conference registration, three nights' hotel stay
• University of Missouri: Employee: Receives salary.

Jamie Mecham, MS, CCC-SLP, is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences (SHS) at Utah State University (USU) and the Clinical Education Director for the USU Speech and Language Clinic. Jamie is the voice of the Speech and Language Clinic in the Sorenson Center for Clinical Excellence where she works to have it known for its forward thinking, innovative education to students, and services to clients. Her leadership also encompasses providing a safe and guiding environment for students who are struggling with the demands of graduate school and life. In conjunction with SHS research faculty, Jamie has collaborated and published peer reviewed articles and book chapters as well as presented on topics related to childhood language disorders, including auditory memory, narrative language intervention, language development and trauma and auditory processing disorders. Jamie’s ultimate objective in her roles is to educate speech-language pathologists who will provide quality speech and language services to communities and change lives.
 

Disclosures:

• CAPCSD Clinical Educators' Academy: Committee Member: Receives complimentary annual conference registration, three nights' hotel stay
• Utah State University: Employee: Receives salary.

Michelle Novak, AuD, CCC-A, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Dakota, where she teaches in the Doctor of Audiology (AuD) program and supervises graduate clinicians at the USD Scottish Rite Speech, Language, and Hearing Center. She serves as interim externship coordinator for the AuD program and as the Audiology Research Discipline Head for the university's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program. Her clinical and research interests include hearing aids (traditional and over-the-counter), hearing assistive technology, and auditory processing. She is committed to preparing future audiologists to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered care, and to improving access to hearing healthcare for diverse and underserved populations.

 
 
Disclosures:

• CAPCSD Clinical Educators' Academy: Committee Member: Receives complimentary annual conference registration, three nights' hotel stay
• University of South Dakota: Employee: Receives salary.

Erin Regis Bailey, SLPD, CCC-SLP, is the Director of Clinical Education and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Concordia University Wisconsin. She earned her BS and MS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her SLPD from Northwestern University. Following a career in adult medical SLP, she transitioned to higher education, providing leadership across on- and off-campus clinical education, supervision, and graduate clinician development. She teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in neuroanatomy and physiology, acquired neurogenic communication disorders, and clinical education and supervision. Her professional and scholarly interests focus on clinical education systems; the recruitment, retention, and support of community clinical instructors; and the preparation of graduate clinicians for professional practice.

Disclosures:

• CAPCSD Clinical Educators' Academy: Committee Member: Receives complimentary annual conference registration, three nights' hotel stay
• Concordia University Wisconsin: Employee: Receives salary.