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Elaine Moran
Acoustical Society of America Melville, New York 11747
Alice Suter
Alice Suter receives Lifetime Achievement Award from NHCA
Alice H. Suter was awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) at the 33rd Annual Hearing Conservation Conference held in February 2008 in Portland, Oregon. This award, established in 1999, is intended to recognize a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishments in the hearing loss prevention profession as well as in service to NHCA.
Alice Suter received a B.A. from The American University in 1959, an M.S. from Gallaudet College in 1960 and a Ph.D. in Audiology from the University of Maryland in 1977. S h e began her career as a teacher of the deaf at Maryland School for the Deaf. In 1968 she joined the Veterans Administration as an Audiology trainee, and began her doctoral work at the University of Maryland. In 1973 she accepted a position as a Senior Bioacoustical Scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Noise Abatement and Control. She had a major role in developing the first national criteria for noise-induced hearing loss and other effects of noise including the psychological, extra-audi- tory physiological, performance, and communication effects. In 1978, Alice transferred from the U.S. EPA to the
Department of Labor where she served the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as a Senior Scientist. In particular, she directed the team of audiologists, occupational safe- ty and health specialists, attorneys, and economists who developed OSHA’s Occupational Noise Exposure; Hearing Conservation Amendment, 29 CFR 1910.95. In 1992 she established Alice Suter and Associates, serving as a con- sultant to government, industry, acade- mia, and professional organizations.
Alice served for several years on the NHCA Executive Council, including a term as Vice President, and Program Chair for an annual conference and as the editor of Hearing Conservation News (the precursor to Spectrum), and later served for 13 years on the Spectrum editorial committee.
Alice has over 50 publications and has presented a large number of lec- tures. She is the author of the Hearing Conservation Manual published by the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation.
She is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). She was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation from the ASA in 1997, the Alice Hamilton Award of The American Industrial Hygiene Association, the NHCA Outstanding Leadership and Service Award (now the Michael Beall Threadgill Award), and the NHCA Outstanding Hearing Conservationist Award.
Alice Suter served as the Editor of ECHOES, the ASA newsletter from 1990 to 1997. She was a Member of the ASA Executive Council (1986-89) and chair of the ASA Committee on Public Relations, 1988-94.
Ted Madison receives award from the NHCA
Ted K. Madison was awarded the Michael Beall Threadgill Award by the National Hearing Conservation
Ted K. Madison
Association at the 33rd Annual Hearing Conservation Conference held in February 2008 in Portland, Oregon. The Michael Beall Threadgill Award was established in 1985 to honor those individuals who have contributed in a significant way to the growth and con- tinuing excellence of the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) by their outstanding commit- ment of time and effort.
Ted Madison has served the NHCA as Treasurer, President-Elect, President, Past President of NHCA and is currently the liaison to the American Speech- Language-Hearing Association. Other professional involvement includes being a member of the ANSI S-12 Working Group 11, serving on the Noise Committee of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and as AIHA’s representative to ANSI S-3. He is a member of International Safety Equipment Association, the American Auditory Society, Acoustical Society of America and a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.
New Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The following ASA members have been elected Fellows of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Abeer Alwan, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, for
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