Karen Muñoz, Ed.D., CCC-A, is the interim department head and an associate professor of audiology in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. She worked as a clinical audiologist and provided clinical supervision for audiology graduate students for seventeen years before beginning her academic career in 2007. She conducts research related to patient/family-centered care and understanding parent and professional factors that facilitate/interfere with outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing learning to communicate using spoken language.