Come Meet Our Hearing Professionals at JC Audiology
At JC Audiology, we’re committed to helping our patients improve their hearing and quality of life. Armed with the latest hearing loss treatments, we’ll help you get back to doing what you love. Meet our team of highly qualified audiologists and hearing experts.
Judith L. Reese, Ph.D.
Audiologist
Judith Reese Ph.D., is a nationally-known Audiologist, who is well-respected among her academic colleagues, hearing aid manufacturers, other private practice Audiologists, and most importantly, her patients.
In addition to serving patients in the Tampa Bay area at JC Audiology, she has served as a clinical audiologist at Tampa Bay area hospitals. Dr. Reese has worked with hearing impaired people in the Tampa Bay area since 1990. Dr. Reese was employed by the Veterans Administration from 1995 to 2005.
Prior to that, she worked in Tampa Bay area nursing homes providing aural rehabilitation to residents who were hard of hearing or deaf, and helped their families and nurses better communicate with them. She earned her Ph. D. from the University of South Florida, where she completed an interdisciplinary program in Cognitive and Neural Psychology and Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Dr. Reese taught audiology and speech pathology students at the University of South Florida and has published several articles on hearing aid use. The Hearing Journal praised Dr. Reese’s research in their Best of 2005 edition as being of primary importance to hearing aid clinicians. She has presented her research to audiences of audiologists, speech and hearing scientists, hearing aid specialists, and hearing aid wearers throughout the United States. Dr. Reese received the 2004 Outstanding Performance Award from the Veterans Administration for significantly contributing to the mission of the VA by substantially exceeding performance requirements. She was previously awarded Clinician of the Year for her work with nursing home residents.
At JC Audiology, Dr. Reese provides audiological evaluations in a spacious sound booth according to the guidelines of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and the American Academy of Audiology. She prescribes hearing aids and assistive listening devices, conducts hearing aid fittings and aural rehabilitation, offers hearing aid supplies and repairs, and other audiological services. At JC Audiology, one can also obtain information and education on hearing loss prevention and tinnitus. Dr. Reese is the only independent professional of national renown providing this level of service in the area.
- Certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology
- Member of the American Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology
- Member of the Florida Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Licensed by the State of Florida Department of Health
- University of South Florida Adjunct Professor
DJ Mitchell, HAS
Hearing Aid Specialist
DJ is a licensed hearing aid specialist in the state of Florida, and a member of the International Hearing Society.
DJ has been helping people hear better for nearly 10 years. What DJ enjoys the most is to send time educating his patients on hearing loss and the impact it has on one’s life.
In his spare time, DJ enjoys doing all things outdoors, including going to the beach, biking, and boating. DJ has a daughter, Jordan, who also lives in Tampa. The two love spending lots of time with each other, including going to Tampa Bay Lightning games. Go Bolt!
Analeis Erickson
Audiologist Assistant
Analeis Erickson is an Audiologist Assistant at JC Audiology, where she helps service nearly 150 devices every month in the JC Audiology Hearing Aid Hospital.
Ms. Erickson excels in ensuring that devices are performing at optimal levels, and is extremely helpful in assisting patients with connectivity issues involving hearing devices and their Bluetooth connections and app settings.
She is a student at the University of Florida and is majoring in Advertising. Analeis has experience in working with hearing-impaired individuals through violin teaching, in which she demonstrated patience and understanding in teaching her students classical violin. Analeis has studied American Sign Language and can communicate with an individual who may need assistance with their communications.
In her free time, Analeis enjoys photography, videography, video editing, music composition, dancing, creative writing, discovering new film scores, and going to the beach.
Graciela Wentz
Patient Care Coordinator
Graciela Wentz is the JC Audiology Patient Care Coordinator. Graciela has many years experience working in the hearing care field at another dispensing office. She is bilingual (English, Spanish), and is dedicated to helping you book your first class journey toward better hearing!
Charlie Reese
Listener-in-Chief
Charlie Reese is Listener-in-Chief at JC Audiology, where he manages the business operations, HIPAA compliancy activities and patient advocacy.
He has a Masters in Business Administration from Saint Leo University, and has served in community leadership positions as president of a variety of organizations such as the Central Pasco Chamber of Commerce (he was Chamber Member of the Year in 1997), Central Pasco Habitat for Humanity, and Leadership Tampa Bay.
He served as a Community Columnist for the Tampa Tribune, and his writings have been published in numerous publications throughout the country. His marketing success over the years has earned him statewide and national awards. He currently serves as a board member with the Society of G. K. Chesterton.