President's Message 2025

Dear CAA Members and Community,

With highest regard and gratitude, I welcome you all to 2025. It is an honor and a privilege to serve not only on the California Academy of Audiology Board of Directors, but as the President for 2025. Twenty-twenty four brought many celebrations to our organization, including the passage of new bylaws, work on our strategic plan as an organization, continued advocacy in Sacramento to protect our licensure and work for improved reimbursement, and a truly uniting Annual Conference. In the ever changing landscape of hearing healthcare, we must not remain stagnant in our efforts and must continue to work for not only audiologists but the many patients we serve.

On behalf of the organization, we invite you to embody the 2025 Annual Conference theme: ACTION & IMPACT. I first joined the CAA Board of Directors in late 2022 after feeling inspired by the quality and content of the Annual Conference. Upon joining the Board, I have had an enriching opportunity to work with passionate and exceptional audiologists, all of whom come from different backgrounds and clinical practices. Working with our Board has inspired a renewed sense of purpose as an audiologist. We, as a community of audiologists, provide imperative health care services to the public. We hope to inspire you in 2025 to TAKE ACTION and make an IMPACT, whether small or profound.

It is my hope that 2025 will bring the dedication and work of the California Academy of Audiology to our membership to, in turn, motivate ACTION & IMPACT in service to our community of professionals and patients. We hope to engage you, our members, on a greater scale, and to continue to provide the advocacy and quality continuing education you deserve. As the world of audiology and hearing healthcare continues to evolve, we must pivot alongside those changes. I look forward to serving you, the community of audiologists, in California in the year ahead.

Kind Regards,
Melissa Garafalo-Culmer, AuD, CCC-A, PASC
2025 CAA President

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