My work consists of managing clinical contracts and affiliation agreements the Department of Health Sciences and numerous facilities nationwide have established. I primarily focus on agreements for the following programs: Audiology, Clinical Lab Sciences, Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, Neurodiagnostic and Sleep Sciences, Radiology, Sonography, as well as Speech and Hearing Sciences. I work alongside OPSCA and OUC to process renewals and new requests for agreements and act as a liaison between the department and the divisions during the execution process. I also assist in collecting and managing data for student services and managing locker assignments for incoming students.

Dr. Stephanie Sjoblad (pronounced SHOW-BLAD) grew up as one of three siblings with congenital hearing loss and has worn hearing aids since the age of six. She received a cochlear implant (CI) in Spring of 2009 and now enjoys bimodal hearing (CI on one ear and hearing aid on the other).
Dr. Sjoblad has been a faculty member of the UNC-Chapel Hill Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences since August 1999 and holds the roles of Professor and Clinic Director. Her primary responsibilities consist of directing the operations of the UNC Hearing and Communication Center clinic, providing direct clinical services while supervising graduate students in audiology, and teaching graduate courses. Dr. Sjoblad is a licensed audiologist in the state of North Carolina and is Board Certified with the American Board of Audiology (ABA).
Dr. Sjoblad has had a lifelong passion to promote more affordable and accessible hearing care to those with hearing loss. She has served on a committee at the National Academies of Science Engineering, and Medicine in D.C. investigating the Use of Selected Assistive Products and Technologies in Eliminating or Reducing the Effects of Impairments. She has served on the Executive Board of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology for over four years.
Her community involvement at the local level includes eleven years of service on the Board of Directors for Beginnings for Parents of Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Inc. and six years of service on the Board for the American Academy of Audiology – North Carolina. Dr. Sjoblad is a charter member of the North Carolina Audiology Association and served as a Member-at-Large for two years.

Brenda Everett Mitchell is a recently retired Associate Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences as well as Associate Chair of the Department of Health Sciences Office of Student Services and AHEC Operations at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.  

As I reflect on my time at UNC as an Associate Professor and administrator, I am grateful for the opportunity to engage with so many awesome individuals. Mentoring is in my DNA so I will always appreciate the growth and development of others through teaching, mentoring, and community service.  

Most recently, I’ve endeavored to reach a younger audience by writing children’s books featuring various health conditions. My books aim to help children understand the importance of treating others respectfully and celebrating differences. 

I am a clinician by training who values helping patients recover from injury and/or surgery to regain mobility and function and ultimately enhance their quality of life. I enjoy working with patients with orthopedic conditions across the lifespan from pediatrics to geriatrics. I am passionate about health equity, ensuring that underserved communities have access to competent and compassionate care. I strive to reduce disparities in healthcare outcomes by offering accessible services for all.
This passion for the profession first led me to clinical teaching with DPT students then classroom teaching. I have a similar passion for my teaching responsibilities as I do clinical care. I aim to create a warm and engaging learning environment that challenges students to think critically and grow in their clinical reasoning. Just as I individualize care for patients, I strive to meet students where they are and support their development into thoughtful, evidence-informed practitioners.

Jackson Roush, PhD, is Professor in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences and Section Head for Audiology at the Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD). With funding from the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau and from the US Department of Education, he directs two training grants designed to prepare graduate students in audiology and speech-language pathology to work with children who are deaf or hard of hearing with autism and other developmental disabilities.

Dr. Roush has been an audiologist for 40 years and has published and presented extensively on a variety of topics related to newborn hearing screening, diagnosis, and intervention for children who are deaf or hard of hearing including those with co-occurring conditions.  He is actively involved in several state and national organizations committed to improving early identification of hearing loss, and he currently serves as Co-Chair of the EHDI Advisory Board for North Carolina.

Dr. Roush is an ASHA Fellow, a Fellow of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, a 2007 recipient of the Presidential Award from the American Academy of Audiology, and a 2019 recipient of the CIDD Impact Award for outstanding contributions in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities.