Dr. Secor has been with Hearing Evaluation Services since 2005 and sees patients at our Orchard Park Office. Dr. Secor completed her audiology residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1998 and has been caring for patients in the Buffalo area since 2000. In addition to her clinical responsibilities, Dr. Secor is Hearing Evaluation Services' Education and Outreach Coordinator. Dr. Secor organizes community events, hearing screenings and in-services to area physicians. Dr. Secor has been involved in multiple international research projects, has been published in the Handbook of Clinical Audiology and has taught audiology classes at the University at Buffalo.

Dr. Secor grew up in Western New York and resides in Lockport with her family.

Education/Training:

2007 Doctorate in Audiology
State University of New York at Buffalo

1998 Master of Arts in Audiology
State University of New York at Buffalo

1996 Bachelor of Arts in Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Minor: Hearing Science
State University of New York at Buffalo

Licenses and Certifications:

New York State License in Audiology

Certificate of Clinical Competence, ASHA

Hearing Aid Dispensing License

Board Certification in Audiology, AAA

Awards/Honors:

Adjunct Clinical Instructor for the State University of New York at Buffalo since 2007

Tindle-Shupe Award for Clinical Excellence - State University at Buffalo Department of Communicative Disorders and Science 1998

Awarded Clinical Fellow status at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation 1998/99

Presentations (selected):

Podium Presentation at American Academy of Audiology (2004); Acoustic Feedback Management and Telephone Use

Poster Presentations at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (1997-1999);
The Effects of Continuous Broadband Masking Noise on the Inferior Colliculus Potential of the Unanesthetized Chinchilla
The Effects of Ipsilateral, Contralateral and Binaural Masking Noise on the ICP to Click Stimuli in the Chinchila

Memberships:

American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)

American Academy of Audiology (AAA)

Specialty Areas:

Hearing Aid and FM Fittings

Central Auditory Processing Disorders

Publications (selected):

Overview of Auditory Evoked Potentials in: The Handbook of Clinical Audiology, 5th edition, 2001.

Auditory Brainstem Responses in CBA Mice and in Mice with Deletion of the RAB3A Gene in: Handbook of Mouse Auditory Research, 2001.

Evoked potentials study published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999.