Alumna Named Executive Director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders

Angela Shoup BS’89, MS’92, PhD’94, who previously led the Division of Communicative and Vestibular Disorders at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been selected as the new executive director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at UT Dallas.

After earning three degrees from UT Dallas, Shoup said, “It’s definitely like coming home. I’ve had a commitment to UT Dallas Callier since the days when Callier and the University were much smaller.” In 2016 she received the University’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

At UT Southwestern, where Shoup was a professor of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery, she oversaw a team of 30 audiologists, five speech pathologists and two audiology externs who worked across multiple institutions, including UT Southwestern, Parkland Health & Hospital System and Children’s Health.

Dr. Angela Shoup

Shoup is known for her promotion of universal newborn hearing screening with a focus on follow-up for infants who do not pass the screening. She inaugurated such a program at Parkland in 1999 and traveled to Austin multiple times, where she advocated for implementation of screening and follow-up services for infants born in Texas hospitals.

The Callier Center works closely with UT Southwestern in providing children with cochlear implants. Shoup said she hopes to expand such collaborative activities in the future.

Shoup is president of the American Academy of Audiology, the world’s largest professional organization of audiologists. She was named a D Magazine Best Doctor in 2018 and 2019. She was inducted into the National Academies of Practice (NAP) Audiology Academy as a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow and currently serves as vice chair of the Audiology Academy for NAP.

– Phil Roth