{"id":35613,"date":"2025-07-08T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=35613"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T17:00:07","slug":"stephanie-sjoblad","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/people\/stephanie-sjoblad\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Sjoblad, AuD"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":35615,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[35],"class_list":["post-35613","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-shs","odd"],"acf":[],"ud_entry_custom_fields":{"ud_last_name":"Sjoblad","ud_first_name":"Stephanie","ud_gallery_summary":"<p>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. 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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.<br \/>\nHer 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 \u2013 North Carolina. 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