Valley ENT Sinus and Allergy

Colleen Reed, Valley ENT Practice Administrator Colleen is a graduate of Pittston Area High School. She received an Associate Degree in Administration at Luzerne County Community College. Colleen has been office manager at Valley ENT for over twenty years.	Lauren A. Steve, Au.D.,CCC-A Audiologist Dr. Steve, a certified Clinical Audiologist received her Masters and Doctoral degrees in Audiology from Bloomsburg University. She completed a doctoral thesis on the study of speech recognition in noisy environments using dual-microphone hearing aids. Dr. Steve has expertise in hearing evaluations. In addition, she has extensive experience in fitting high quality, digital, programmable hearing aids. She has worked as an audiologist in private practice as well as in a university setting.	Joseph Vavrek H.I.S. Hearing Instrument Specialist Joseph is a graduate of Wyoming Area High School. He received his license as a Hearing Instrument Specialist from the Pennsylvania Department of Health in 1998. He has worked with private practice ENT's for the last ten years specializing in digital hearing aid evaluations and fittings. Prior to that, he worked for Geisinger Wyoming Valley as a technician for seventeen years.
Barbara Jones, RN Allergy Nurse   Barbara graduated from Wyoming Valley West High School and Wilkes College with a BS in Nursing. She has taken advanced courses in critical care and worked as a critical care nurse in the ICU at General Hospital. She has extensive experience as an allergy nurse and has expertise in skin testing and immunotherapy.	Mary M. Leedock, LPN Allergy Nurse Mary attended Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational Technical School where she received a degree in Practical Nursing, and has taken additional nursing courses at Luzerne County Community College. Mary worked at Mercy Hospital Medical/Surgical unit for eight years as well as for Dr. Panzer and Dr. Gernhardt.