On Tuesday, March 10 at 2 pm in the PDR, Dr. Jessica LaCorte, AUD, Coordinator of Audiology Services at the Donald R. Reed Speech and Hearing Center at Phelps Hospital, will make a presentation geared towards people who do not wear hearing aids and want to learn more about the impact of hearing loss on the geriatric population, how to diagnose hearing loss, and what to do about it.
In addition to providing direct clinical audiology services at Phelps, Dr. LaCorte oversees the Phelps Balance Center. Her focus is on pediatric and adult audiological evaluations, vestibular (balance) evaluations, treatment of patients suffering from tinnitus, and hearing aid dispensing.
Dr. LaCorte, a licensed audiologist and hearing aid dispenser in New York State, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and has a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology. Dr. LaCorte obtained her BA degree at the University of Maryland and her Doctor of Audiology from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She worked at Columbia University Medical Center during her residency and interned at The Ear Institute at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and Weill Cornell Medical College. She also aided in research studies at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
All residents, even those who already have hearing aids, are invited.