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What YOU can do for Audiology!

The American Academy of Audiology promotes quality hearing and balance care through leadership, advocacy, education, public awareness, and support of research. Find out how we can help you in the field of audiology, become a member today!

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What YOU can do for Audiology!

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  1. What YOU can do for Audiology! Mission Statement The American Academy of Audiology promotes quality hearing and balance care by advancing the profession of audiology through leadership, advocacy, education, public awareness, and support of research.

  2. Board of Directors 2018-2019 • President, Lisa Christensen, AuD • Immediate Past President, Jackie Clark, PhD • President Elect, Catherine Palmer, PhD • Members at Large • Bopanna Ballachanda, PhD (2019) • Tracy Murphy, AuD (2019) • Christopher Zalewski, PhD (2019) • Francis Kuk, PhD (2020) • Melissa Heche, AuD (2020) • Brad Stach, PhD (2020) • Samuel Bittel, AuD (2021) • Kari Morgenstein, AuD (2021) • Angela Shoup, PhD (2021)

  3. Academy Structure Board of Directors Executive Director Academy Staff

  4. Academy Structure AAA is a volunteer lead organization. 6 Councils; 26 committees; 11 task forces; 5 BOD committees Influence vs Authority

  5. Academy Structure

  6. Annual Audits • The AAA Audit Committee oversees the audit process and presentation to the Board of Directors • Financial audit – all expenses, revenue and support, restricted & unrestricted funds, etc • The annual audit can be found on the Academy website (public)

  7. REVENUE & EXPENSE BY PROGRAM

  8. YOUR Membership Dollars

  9. The Cost of Membership

  10. The Cost of Membership

  11. $25.00 weekly at Big Dog or Starbucks = $1300.00 yearly • $1300 covers memberships, PAC, Foundation, • Conference registration

  12. Who is donating? Who is benefiting? PAC: a political committee organized for the purpose of raising and spending money to elect and defeat candidates. Foundation: promote philanthropy in support of research, education, and public awareness in audiology and hearing science

  13. AAA PAC If half donated $120 and half donated $60, we’d have over 1,000,000 in the PAC

  14. Some of Our New Member Benefits & Capabilities • Volunteer portal - over 100 new volunteers placed • PR/outreach campaign with our PR consultant • Quarterly emails • Member PR toolkit available on the website • Tinnitus management certificate program (CH-TM) • Peer mentoring program • Enhancing web-based consumer resources on hearing health • Leadership Tweets @AuDLeadership • hearScreen USA Launch October 10, 2018

  15. What are OUR issues? • Reimbursement • CMS Medicare Program Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2019 – excludes audiologists for the definition of MIPS eligible clinician thereby preventing qualified audiologists from patriating in MIPS • AAA sent letter on 9/7/18 opposing this • AAA has ongoing meetings with CMS • FDA & OTC • Recommendations on OTC sent to FDA jointly from AAA, ASHA, ADA, and HIA • Information released to the FDA and public on 8/14/18 • FCC • The provisions of Section 225 of the Communications Act of 1934 (“Communications Act”) • Mandate functionally-equivalent telecommunication services for individuals with hearing loss • Letter sent to FCC on 9/7/2018 in support

  16. Focus for 2019 • Communications: To develop a communications strategy that will guide the Academy in delivering timely, consistent, transparent, and relevant messaging within the Academy and across all Academy outreach platforms. This will involve analyzing our current outreach platforms and IT structure, as well as enhancing communications with and between members. • Membership: To investigate creative ways of retaining and growing our membership base by exploring unique ways in expanding our influence to best serve specific member targets. • Certification: To uphold the Academy’s commitment to certification by focusing on expanding, enhancing, and adapting our certification programs as the needs of our profession continues to change. We will address the value proposition of certification and determine how to make it more accessible to a greater number of members.  • Public Awareness: To widely engage members in the Academy’s October (National Audiology Awareness Month) public awareness activities as well as focus efforts primarily on outreach to referring providers. • Advocacy: To coalesce a common policy agenda among stakeholders and use this to develop and support a single audiology legislative effort that meets the Academy’s priorities to reduce regulation and expense while advancing the audiology profession. Pathway to Payment.

  17. What about Ohio? • You have some of the best role models in the country • You produce leaders • These leaders keep working • You are going to host our best national convention to date

  18. Be in touch with questions, comments, thoughts… palmercv@upmc.edu @AuDLeadership

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