Dr. Angela Shoup

The Ludwig A. Michael, MD Callier Center Executive Directorship pays tribute to Michael for his outstanding service as a trustee and former president of the Foundation for the Callier Center and Communication Disorders. The directorship was established through an initial gift from the Communities Foundation of Texas. Michael was a prominent Dallas otolaryngologist and played a pivotal role in the Callier Center’s early years. Michael joined the staff of Baylor University Medical Center, where he served two terms as chief of otolaryngology in the 1960s and 1970s. He also served on the clinical faculty of UT Southwestern Medical Center for more than 50 years. He died in 2015.

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“The Callier Center and UT Dallas are organizations that share my passion and belief in the value of interprofessional collaboration, excellence in research and education, commitment to improving the lives of individuals and families, and joining with community members to advance research, educational and clinical initiatives. Having had the opportunity to know Dr. Michael and his wife and observe directly their enduring commitment to these same ideals makes me feel particularly honored to hold the Ludwig A. Michael MD Executive Directorship of the Callier Center.”

As executive director of the Callier Center for Communication Disorders, Angela Shoup BS’89, MS’92, PhD’94 sets the strategic vision of the organization and oversees the center’s treatment, training and research efforts.

Shoup’s research interests include implementation and outcomes of universal newborn hearing screening programs, congenital cytomegalovirus and hearing, developmental issues in audition, auditory electrophysiology, diagnostic assessment for auditory and vestibular disorders, hearing aids, and cochlear and auditory brainstem implants.

Shoup, who has extensive experience as an audiologist, is known for her promotion of universal newborn hearing screening with a focus on follow-up for infants that do not pass the screening. She inaugurated such a program at Parkland Memorial Hospital in 1999 and traveled to Austin multiple times, where she advocated for implementation of screening and follow-up services for infants born in Texas hospitals.

A professor of speech, language and hearing in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Shoup is active in the American Academy of Audiology, where she has served as president and in many other roles. She was named a D Magazine Best Doctor in 2018, 2019 and 2020, has been inducted into the National Academies of Practice (NAP) Audiology Academy as a Distinguished Scholar and Fellow, and served as vice chair of the Audiology Academy for NAP. She has published articles and textbook chapters on audiologic procedures and implantable hearing devices and has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings.

She received three degrees from UT Dallas: a bachelor’s in speech pathology and audiology, a master’s in communication disorders, and a PhD in human development and communication sciences. In 2016 she received the University’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Previously the head of the Division of Communicative and Vestibular Disorders and a professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center, Shoup assumed her role as executive director of the Caller Center in 2020.