Directors Staff Jane R. Madell, PhD, CCC-A/SLP, Cert. AVT Karen Slotnick, MA-CCC-SLP Ronald Hoffman, MD Audiologists Speech-Language Pathologists Surgeons Educator Social Worker Communication Assistant

Jane R. Madell, PhD, CCC-A/SLP, Cert. AVT
Director, Hearing and Learning Center
Co-Director, Cochlear Implant Center
Beth Israel Medical Center

Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dr. Jane Madell has been a pediatric audiologist for more than 30 years. She received her bachelor's degree from Emerson College, in Boston, and her Master's and Doctoral degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is licensed in audiology and speech-language pathology in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Dr. Madell is nationally renowned for her work with young children who have severe and profound hearing loss, selection and management of hearing aids and cochlear implants, evaluation of difficult-to-evaluate children, including children with autism and other developmental disabilities, and evaluation and management of children with auditory processing disorders. Dr. Madell has written two books, 17 book chapters, and numerous journal articles. She is a frequent speaker to professional and parent groups.

Publications authored by Dr. Madell


Karen Slotnick, MA-CCC-SLP
Director, Speech-Language and Learning Center
Beth Israel Medical Center

Karen Slotnick holds a Master's degree in Communication Sciences from Hunter College, in New York City. She has been a Speech-Language Pathologist for 15 years. Ms. Slotnick is fluent in Spanish and assesses and treats a broad spectrum of communication disabilities in both children and adults. She employs the principles and methods of Auditory Verbal Therapy with the hearing impaired and cochlear implant population. She is a leading practitioner of the Fast ForWord Program, a computer-based program for children and adults with auditory and language processing disorders. Ms. Slotnick often presents to professional groups on language processing and reading disorders and treatment.


Ronald Hoffman, MD
Director, Otology
Co-Director, Cochlear Implant Center
Beth Israel Medical Center

Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Dr. Ronald Hoffman graduated from Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, completed his residency in Otolaryngology at New York University Medical Center and a fellowship in Otology-Neurotology at Lenox Hill Hospital. He has served as the Director of Otology and Neurotology at Lenox Hill Hospital and New York University Medical Center and presently holds that title at Beth Israel Medical Center. Dr. Hoffman is the recipient of the prestigious Mosher Award for Excellence in Clinical Research given by the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society and has published extensively on diseases of the ear and in particular on cochlear implants. He has been recognized by New York magazine in its "Best Doctors" issue.

In 2000, when Dr. Hoffman implanted a 46-year-old deaf and blind computer programmer with a second, bilateral cochlear implant, the patient became one of the first persons in the U.S. to receive the assistance of binaural technology in localizing sound and hearing. The recipient's extensive evaluation in conjunction with a MIT/Boston University research team resulted in new test strategies for evaluating bilaterally implanted patients that are now in use across the country.