Board Members
Adrienne Ulrich, Au.D - President - Chair, 2012 Planning Committee
Dr. Adrienne Ulrich, Au.D., F-AAA is currently a stay-at-home mom, in addition to her role as President of the Massachusetts Academy of Audiology.
Dr. Ulrich worked as a field sales representative and trainer for Siemens Hearing Instruments in New England. Dr. Ulrich also worked as a clinical audiologist in Southern California, providing diagnostic Audiology services and hearing aid dispensing to pediatrics and adults.
Dr. Ulrich received her Master’s degree from San Francisco State University and her Doctorate degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Dr. Ulrich is board-certified by the American Board of Audiology, and is currently licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Julie Breton, Au.D. - Treasurer - Chair, Membership Committee
Dr. Julie Breton has been in the field of audiology since 1982. She received her bachelor’s degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Northeastern University. She continued her studies in the field of Audiology and received her Master’s degree from Northeastern University. Recently she completed her studies and was awarded a Doctoral degree in Audiology from the Arizona School of Health Sciences.
Dr. Breton has worked for a non profit organization that provided hearing aid consultations, hearing conservation programs, and educational seminars. For several years she provided audiologic evaluations and vestibular testing, as well as supervised a staff of audiologists for a large ENT practice. She is currently in private practice.
She currently holds membership with the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and The Academy of Dispensing Audiologists, and is licensed as an audiologist by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Deborah Dempesy, Au.D. - Secretary - Co-chair, Legislative Committee
Dr. Deborah Dempesy, Doctor of Audiology, has nearly 30 years experience as a clinical audiologist. Her primary interests are: aural rehabilitative audiology, especially hearing aids, assistive listening devices and technology that help the hearing impaired communicate and cope in our auditory world; tinnitus management (noises in the ears), TRT (Tinnitus Retraining Therapy): and working with all populations, from infants to the very elderly.
Dr. Dempesy obtained her doctorate in Audiology (AuD) from Salus University in 2007. Prior to that she received her Master’s of Audiology Degree at Northwestern University in Evanston IL in 1982.
Due to Meniere’s disease, she herself lost her hearing 10 years after beginning her career as an audiologist. She has been wearing hearing aids since then. She is personally aware of the limitations hearing loss can create when working and socializing and is committed to helping others achieve the best possible hearing ability they can through modern technology.
Dr. Dempesy achieved her life’s dream in acquiring a longstanding private practice in Audiology in Plymouth MA, in 2008. Dr. Dempesy has been the owner of Dempesy Audiology LLC dba All Ears Hearing Center in Plymouth MA. This practice has been in existence for 26 years. Prior to that she practiced as an audiologist in Chicago IL and for nearly 30 years in Boston. Boston work experience includes: Director of Audiology at Beth Israel Deaconess hospital for 14 years, 6 years of consulting work performing hearing aid clinical research, serving on the Task Force for Infant Hearing Screening for the state of Massachusetts, assisting several Boston hospitals setting up Infant Hearing screening programs, establishing her own private practice in audiology for 7 years on Boston’s North Shore. Dr. Dempesy worked with a major hearing aid manufacturer, Oticon Inc. with headquarters in Denmark. She provided training and education to audiologists in private practice throughout the New England region
Dr. Dempesy is a member of the American Academy of Audiology, American Speech Language Hearing Association, the Massachusetts Academy of Audiology, and The Massachusetts Educational Audiology Association, the American Tinnitus Association, American Academy of Otolaryngology, and is licensed by the State of Massachusetts to practice Audiology.
Karen Armbrust, Au.D. - Board Member - Co-chair, Legislative Committee
Dr. Karen Armbrust has been practicing audiology in the Boston area since 1992. She graduated with her Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York and received her Doctor of Audiology degree from the Arizona School of Health Sciences.
Dr. Armbrust is Board Certified by the American Board of Audiology in addition to being a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and a member of the American Auditory Society and American Tinnitus Association.
Dr. Armbrust has worked in private practice and E.N.T. settings. She currently consults at Brookline E.N.T., P.C. Her areas of interest include diagnostic audiology, electrophysiologic evaluation, vestibular assessment and vestibular rehabilitation.
Janice Tanedo Powis, Au.D. - Board Member - Chair, Public Relations Committee
Dr. Janice Tanedo Powis is an audiologist at Dempesy Audiology LLC dba All Ears Hearing Center in Plymouth, MA. She obtained her clinical doctorate of audiology at the University of Memphis and completed her fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her clinical interests include auditory rehabilitation and hearing device technology. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), a member of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA), and holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence through the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association.
Joan McCormack, Au.D - Board Member - Co-chair, AudiologyNow! 2012 Committee
Dr. Joan McCormack received her Doctorate in Audiology from the School of Audiology at PCO in 2004, a M.A. in Audiology from the University of Connecticut in 1980 and a B.S.Ed. in Speech and Hearing from Northeastern University in 1978.
She is the founder and President of Atlantic Hearing Care, a private Audiology practice in Swampscott specializing in hearing evaluation, hearing conservation, hearing aids and assistive technology. Previous positions have included Regional Manager for HearUSA, Director of Audiology for Union Hospital in Lynn and Director of Communication Disorders for the former New England Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn. She is also a past Secretary and CEU Coordinator for the Massachusetts Speech-Language-Hearing Association and Past-President of the Swampscott Rotary Club. Dr. McCormack is licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to practice Audiology, Board Certified in Audiology, certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association in Audiology and a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.
Marcia Southwell Dean, Au.D - Board Member - Co-chair, AudiologyNow! 2012 Committee
Dr. Dean is the founder and president of Audiology Associates of Worcester, Inc. She has been in private practice for 23 years, is licensed as an audiologist by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology.
Dr. Dean received her Doctor of Audiology Degree (Au.D) from the Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2003, her Masters of Arts Degree from the University of Connecticut in 1974, and her Bachelor of Science Degree from Boston University in 1972.
Memberships:
Fellow of American Academy of Audiology
Member of American Speech-Language Hearing Association
Member of Massachusetts Speech-Language Hearing Association
Paul Milner, Ph.D - Board Member and Past-President -
Dr. Paul Milner has been the director of Hearing Care Center, a dispensing audiology practice in Sharon, Mass. since 1989. He received the PhD degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the City University of New York Graduate School after completing studies in Engineering and Communications at MIT and Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York. He has over 40 years of experience in teaching, in scientific and clinical research and in applications relating to acoustics, sound, broadcasting and recording technologies, hearing and hearing disorders.
For 8 years he was a research acoustics engineer for CBS Laboratories, the former research division of CBS. He has been employed as an audiologist at the VA Hospital in West Haven, CT, at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, and as consultant to the Audiology Department at Children's Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Milner has been on the part-time faculty of Bridgewater State College, University of Rhode Island, Emerson College, Northeastern University, and Worcester State College where he has taught courses in audiology and speech and hearing sciences to both undergraduate and graduate students and provided clinical supervision. He is a “Technical Expert” trainer for Frye Electronics, a manufacturer of industry-leading hearing aid test systems and was an Advanced Technology Consultant to Siemens Hearing Instruments.
Dr. Milner is a Fellow of the Academy of Dispensing Audiologists, a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology, member of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, American Auditory Society, Acoustical Society of America, and Massachusetts Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Dr. Milner is Board Certified in Audiology® by the American Board of Audiology. He also holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology (CCC–A) and is licensed as an Audiologist by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Dierdre Anderson, Au.D - Board Member and Past-President -
Dr. Dierdre Anderson has been in private practice at Audiology Network Services since 1995. She currently has two locations, one in Newburyport, MA and one at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, MA. She offers bilingual services at the Methuen location and also specializes in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy.
Dr. Anderson received her Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Master’s Degree in Audiology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2001 she completed the Doctor of Audiology Degree (Au.D) from the School of Audiology at Pennsylvania College of Optometry.