John Greer Clark, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, served as the director of audiology education and professor of audiology at the University of Cincinnati following 25 years in private practice. With his wife, Dr. Suzanne Clark, he is a co-founder of the Midwest Audiology Conference which subsequently evolved into separate conferences for the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, an honors recipient of the Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from both the Communication Sciences and Disorders department and the College of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Cincinnati, and recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Academy of Audiology.
American Board of Audiology Certified (ret) and Dually certified in audiology and speech-language pathology by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ret), Dr. Clark served as a faculty fellow for the Ida Institute in Naerum, Denmark, and on the boards of the American Academy of Audiology, the Ohio Academy of Audiology, the American Board of Audiology (Chair, 2005) and the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology (President, 2010). He has authored, coauthored, or coedited 15 textbooks, 20 book chapters, and a variety of journal articles and has been an editor, associate editor, editorial consultant, and reviewer for a number of professional journals.
Kristina M. English, Ph.D. is a professor emeritus at the University of Akron. In 1996, she had the opportunity to teach the first AuD counseling course. Fortunately, John Clark and Fred Martin had already published a counseling textbook to get her started. Since then, she has authored, coauthored or edited nine books and more than 20 chapters, and has presented over 350 workshops and papers in the United States, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on the topic of audiologic counseling. Her service to the profession includes 5 years as a board member for the American Academy of Audiology (President, 2009–2010), 10 years on the board of the Educational Audiology Association (President, 1997), and 12 years as a founding fellow/grant reviewer for the Ida Institute in Naerum, Denmark. She is a founding member of the Cochlear Implant International Community of Action (CIICA), a grant reviewer for the Canadian Health Service Global Partnerships for Research & Innovation, and creator/writer for an audiology web forum called AdvancingAudCounseling.com.