Sarah F. Poissant

Dr. Sarah Poissant is Chair of the Communication Disorders Department and was a Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow in the Office of Faculty Development (OFD) during the 2021-2022 academic year. She is also Chair of the Faculty Senate’s Graduate Council. As a Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow, Dr. Poissant worked to institutionalize and expand OFD’s programming and services for mid-career faculty and she contributed to the scholarly writing program, the Leadership Essentials for All Faculty series, and programming for department heads and chairs. Dr. Poissant’s scholarly interests include speech perception in adults and children with hearing loss, real-world listening abilities of cochlear implant users, and novel approaches to behavioral hearing testing in young children. Her research has been published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Ear and Hearing, the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology as well as other audiology and otology journals. She is a past recipient of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award and recently served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Evaluation of Hearing Loss for Individuals with Cochlear implants.