Cochlear Implant Program -
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Published on: 2/6/2006
Last Visited: 8/26/2009
Front (left to right): Melanie Coll, Daniela Carvalho, Alyssa Needleman, Rada West, Valerie Dorfman, Ayala Ben-Tall, Jennifer Foss and Kelly Sullivan
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Alyssa Needleman, Ph.D., leads the Audiology Department at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, providing day to day leadership to the department and developing systems that ensure quality patient care outcomes and fiscal management. She earned her doctorate at the University of Texas at Dallas, with her area of expertise in speech perception in individuals with hearing loss. She is certified as an audiologist with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, and has worked in all aspects of the audiological community since 1991, including hospital, corporate and university settings, as well as running her own private practice.