Professional Background
Tiffany Johnson, Ph.D., CCC-A, is an associate professor and serves as chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech at KU Medical Center. She is also co-director of the University of Kansas Intercampus Program in Communicative Disorders.
In February 2020, Johnson was appointed the Doughty-Kemp Endowed Chair of the Department of Hearing and Speech.
In addition to her administrative duties in the department, Johnson teaches courses in diagnostic audiology and hearing disorders. She mentors doctoral student research and also serves on the curriculum and admissions committees for both the clinical and research doctoral degrees in audiology.
Johnson's academic and professional background includes earning an undergraduate degree from Creighton University in 1992 and a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1995. She worked as a clinical audiologist in Nebraska and Minnesota before serving on the University of Iowa faculty as a clinical assistant professor from 1997 to 1999. Johnson earned her doctorate at the University of Iowa (2003) and completed her postdoctoral fellowship (2003-2006) at Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, Neb.
Johnson has also been active in national groups including the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Academy of Audiology.
- PhD, Speech and Hearing Science, University of Iowa
