SPEAKERS / TOPICS
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Cherie Carroll (Biography)
Topic:  Website Planning and Online Marketing (Details)

Margaret "Meg" Adkins, Au.D., CCC-A (Biography)
Topic:  Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids (Details)

Dr. R. Nadia Siritsky (Biography)
Topic:  Learing to Hear: Ethics, Motivational Theory and Audiology
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Jep Hostetler, Ph.D. (Biography)
Topic:  The Joy Factor: Inspirational Speech & Enriching Workshop (Details)

Joe Neve, AuD (Biography)
Topic:  The Importance of Proper Documentation of Patient Findings (Details)

Cherie Carroll
Since 1997 Cherie has owned and operated a website design and hosting company. She has taught community education classes on Website Planning, eCommerce Planning, and Online Marketing.  She was the business and technology speaker at WEDO (Women’s Economic Development Outreach) at Centre College and for multiple Lincoln & Boyle County Chamber of Commerce events. She has also participated in small business conferences through the Small Business Administration at Berea, Danville and Somerset KY. She is on the Board of Directors for Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce. She is also a volunteer editor with the Open Directory Project aka DMOZ.ORG.

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Margaret "Meg" Adkins, Au.D., CCC-A
Meg is a clinical audiologist at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center.  She earned her B.S., degree from the Eastern Kentucky University Deaf and Hard of Hearing program in 1995, her M.A. in Communication Science(Audiology) from the University of Connecticut in 1998, and finally her Doctorate in Audiology from A.T. Still University of Health Science (Arizona) in 2007. 

Dr. R. Nadia Siritsky, MA, MSSW, BCC
(Dr.) R. Nadia Siritsky,completed (completes) her doctorate in pastoral counseling at Hebrew Union College and the Post Graduate Center for Mental Health in the Spring of 2010, and completed her Mosters of Science in Social Work from the University of Louisville.  Her research area include: the impact of compassion and fatigue on organizational productivity, and the use of psychosocial interventions to increase medical regimen adherence behaviors for chronic illness.  She is also an organined rabbi, a board certified chaplain and a medical social worker.  She has served as a spiritual leader in several congregations, including Temple Adath Israel-Brith Sholom in Louisville, KY, as well as working in counseling settings such as the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services of Louisville, KY.   She  was the director of Chavurot Shalom, and activity center for older adults and is currently working as a chaplain, social worker and bereavement counselor with the Hospice of Philadelphia.

Jep Hostetler, Ph.D.
JepHostetier, Inspirational and motivation speaker, associate professor emeritus of preventive medicine, health care researcher, author, magician, grandfather and ...whew! When you need motivation ask a busy guy. For over twenty years, Jep Hostetier, Ph.D., has used his uplifting presentations to inspire medical students, school administrators, hospital volunteers, civic leaders, teachers, students, 4H leaders and members, representatives of business, health care and financial institutions and a wide range of social service agencies. Dr. Jep, as many of his students call him, is a master teacher, inviting his audiences to consider fresh ways to look at the foibles, joys and sorrows of life.

Joe Neve, AuD
Joe Neve is currently serving as President of the MN & Western WI Region of Avada Audiology & Hearing Care. Joe began his career with Avada as a hearing instrument dispenser in 1991 after receiving a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI. He earned a Masters degree in Audiology from the University of Minnesota in 1996 and completed his Doctor of Audiology degree from the University of Florida in May 2008. Dr. Neve served for 6 years as a member of the MN Hearing Instrument Dispensing Advisory Council to the Minnesota Commissioner of Health. He conducts national training seminars for Avada’s audiologists and HIDs.  He is also co-chair of Avada’s national software committee. Joe lives with his wife and four children in Chanhassen, MN.
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TOPICS

Website Planning and Online Marketing
Learn how your business can benefit from free and low cost technology solutions.  Website planning: domain names, hosting, architecture, design, navigation, writing effective content. Marketing your business: search engines/directories, community links, paid advertising, offline marketing, social media, email marketing.  Blogging for business: business benefits, blog software, creating content. Cutting edge: mobi websites for cell/mobile devices. Followed by technology Q&A.

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Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids
Cochlear implants and hearing aids.  The best of both worlds.  This presentation will cover a breadth of information designed to educate hearing healthcare professionals with vast ranges of experience.  The subject matter is highly  relevant and necessary for those seeking to stay on the cutting edge of hearing technology and working to provide their consumers the best hearing possible.  Many hearing healthcare providers think that a cochlear implant referral means a loss of a client, when, in fact, it can result in an uptick in referrals and community reputation.  This presentation will make this case.

The following will be covered in a two hour presentation, via lecture, power point and Q&A.

1. Why and how a cochlear implant referral can positively affect your professional practice.

2.Cochlear implant referral:  candidacy criteria, tests, patient contact and maintenance.

3.Cochlear implant centers in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana.

4.What is a cochlear implant and how it works.

5.Anatomy and physiology of Cochlear implant use.

6.Your role as a cochlear implant support professional.

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Learning to Hear: Ethics, Motivational Theory and Audiology
This session will expose practitioners to the basic principles and techniques of motivational interviewing, and how it can ensure ethical professional practice, improve patient satisfaction and increase regimen adherence behavior amongst patients.

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The Joy Factor: Inspirational Speech & Enriching Workshop
It seems fairly obvious that if we strive for happiness, depending on circumstances and situations outside of ourselves, to provide it, we will more than likely become disappointed.  Good health, solid relationships, a decent job, children that behave, a place to live, all contribute to well being.  However, if we wait for all these things to come together, something usually happens to change the momentary happiness.

Joy on the other hand, is a choice.  Joy has to do with how we look at life, how we approach difficult and challenging situations, and our attitude toward troubling times. It is my belief that we can maintain a semblance of balance and a degree of serenity if we incorporate the "joy factor" into our way of thinking.

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The Importance of Proper Documentation of Patient Findings
The field of hearing health care continues to see great advancements in digital technology products that improve the quality of our patients’ hearing and contributes to their quality of life. An often overlooked area of our profession is the accuracy and consistency of documenting the delivery of care. This talk will cover the importance of proper documentation of patient findings and building a successful practice by using  the medical profession’s best practice “SOAP” notes guidelines.
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