Faculty and Staff Profiles

• B.A. Speech Pathology - University of Alabama - 1965
• M.A. Audiology - University of Alabama - 1967
• Ph.D. Hearing & Speech Science - Indiana University - 1971

• Fellow - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - 2000

•   - University Faculty Promotion & Tenure Appeals Committee - 1979-1981, 1991-1993
•   - University Subcommittee on Graduate Programs, SACS Self Study - 1992-1993
•   - Teacher Education Advisory Committee, College of Education, UM - 1994-1999
•   - University Steering Committee on SACS Accreditation - 2003-2005
• Memphis Advisory Council for the Hearing Impaired, Inc. - Board of Directors - 1976-1983
• Tennessee Board of Examiners for SLP and AUD -   - 1975-1977
• Tennessee Board of Hearing Aid Dispensers - Advisory Council - 1977-1979
• Education and Training Board, ASHA - Site Visitor - 1978-1980
• Memphis Oral School for the Deaf - Board of Directors - 1979-1982
• ASHA - Audiologic Standards Committee - 1983-1985
• ASHA - Legislative Council for State of Tennessee - 1987-88-89
• Professional Standards Board, ASHA - Site Visitor - 1984-1996
• ASHA Special Interest Division #7 - Aural Rehabilitation - Steering Committee - 1994-1998
• Ad Hoc Committee on Scope of Practice in Audiology, ASHA - Chair - 1994-95
• Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology - Treasurer - 1996-99
• ASHA - Board of Division Coordinators - 1996-98
• ASHA, Aural Rehabilitation & Its Instrumentation - Coordinator, ASHA Special Interest Division 7 - 1996-1998
• Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology - Treasurer - 1998-99
• ASHA, Select Panel on Audiology - Member - 1997
• ASHA - Audiological Rehabilitation Working Group - 1998-1999
• ASHA - Legislative Council for the State of Tennessee - 1999 -2002
• Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology - President - 2001-2002
• ASHA - Legislative Council for the State of Tennessee - 2003-2006
• ASHA - Audiology Assembly Of Legislative Council - Co-Chair of the Audiology Assembly - 2003
• ASHA Legislative Council - Legislative Council Program Review Group (LCPRG) Chair of committee to review Ethics Program - 2004-2005
• ASHA - Audiology Assembly Of Legislative Council - Committee (Chair) on Evidenced Based Practice - 2004-2005
• ASHA Special Interest Division #7 - Steering Committee - 2005-2007
• ASHA Board of Ethics - Board Member - 2006-2008

• Wark, D.J. and Kelly, R.J. A constructivist approach to counseling in Audiology: A pedagogical shift. The 11th Biennial conference of the North American Personal Construct Network, Memphis, Tennessee, June 17-20, 2004. 
• Wark, D.J. The grieving process: A constructivist perspective for Audiology. Refereed paper prsented at the Annual Institute of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology, Louisville, Kentucky,  October, 2006.
• Gagne, J.P., Fisher, D., Threats, T. and Wark, D.J., The international classification of functioning (ICF): Implications for rehabilitative audiology. Refereed panel presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Miami, Florida, November, 2006
• Erdman, S.A. and Wark, D.J., Counseling competency in rehabilitative audiology, Refereed Short Course at the  American Speech-Language-Hearing Association meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2007.