2025 G.P. Moore Symposium

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Thursday, February 6th and Friday, February 7th, 2025

Online via Zoom

Presented by the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the University of Florida Chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Thursday, February 6th

Meredith Holocomb, AuD, CCC-A presents:

“Consideration for improving hearing healthcare access and hearing technology utilization”

Friday, February 7th

Tracy Centanni, PhD presents:

“Reading impairment is more than meets the eye: heterogeneity in dyslexia and implications for optimizing clinical intervention”

Speaker Bios

Dr. Holocomb is an Associate Professor and Director of the Hearing Implant Program at the University of Miami EarInstitute. She received her Doctorate of Audiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006 and has spent her 19 years of professional service as a cochlear implant audiologist. She is a past chair of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance Board of Directors, and she currently serves as an audiology consultant for Advanced Bionics, Cochlear, Med El, Hemideina, and Akouos. Dr. Holcomb is also a faculty member for the Institute for Cochlear Implant Training courses and serves on the Joint Committee for Infant Hearing. She has co-authored many peer reviewed articles and book chapters on various topics of cochlear implantation and she has lectured over 100 times in her career.

Dr. Centanni is the Director of the Genetics of Auditory and Visual Perception and Plasticity (GAPP) Lab. Her research program focuses on the genetic and neural correlates of reading acquisition, factors that drive reading disorders (e.g., dyslexia), and neural plasticity including using non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation to improvereading and language. The overarching goal of the lab is to bridge the “GAPP”between research on neural mechanisms of speech, language reading, and plasticity, and improving the lives of the people who live with the disorders we study.

She received her Ph.D. in 2013 from the University of Texas at Dallas, using rat models to probe the influence of dyslexia-candidate genes on auditory perception. She then completed postdoctoral training at the MGH Institute of Health Professions and at MIT, with the goal of learning translational and clinically relevant research methods. TheGAPP Lab was established at Texas Christian University in 2017, and moved to UF in summer 2023.

Financial Disclosure Information:

Dr. Meredith Holocomb

Financial Disclosure:  Receives an honorarium from the University of Florida Student Speech-Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA) as an instructor for this symposium.

Non-Financial Disclosure:  None to disclose.

Dr. Tracy Cenntani

Financial Disclosure:  Employed by the University of Florida.

Non-Financial Disclosure:  None to disclose.

Continuing Education Information: 

CE Hours:  Up to 10.0 Hrs.

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