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Implant Program Team
Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center
Cochlear Implant Program
Medical Center East, South Tower, Room 9302
1215 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232-8025
Phone: 615-936-8623 (Voice/TRS)
Fax: 615-936-1225
Team Members
Director and Coordinators:
David Haynes, MD, Medical Director
Rene Gifford, Ph.D., CCC-A, Audiology Director
Kelly Newhouse, Program Assistant
Otolaryngologists/Neuro-Otologists:
Audiologists
Speech-Language Pathologists
Elizabeth Boschini, M.S., CF-SLP
Erin Carini-Karb, M.S., CCC-SLP
Geneine Snell, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Sarah Wilhite, M.A., CCC-SLP
Erin Carini-Karb, M.S., CCC-SLP
Geneine Snell, M.Ed., CCC-SLP
Sarah Wilhite, M.A., CCC-SLP
Teachers of the Deaf
Kelli Blankenship, MA, CED
Debra Conn, MDE
Katie Kiske, MA, CED
Meredith Nichols, MDE
Robert Shaffer, MA
Uma Soman, M.Ed., CED
Leena Varma, M.Ed., CED


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