Meet the Team

Dr. Laura Gibson

Adult & Pediatric Infectious Disease, Umass Memorial

Dr. Gibson is an Adult and Pediatric Infectious Disease physician at UMassMemorial Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine and of Pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA. As a clinician, she serves a variety of patient populations, including people with a low immune system, pregnant women, and children. As a physician-scientist over more than 20 years, she also combines patient care with translational research. Her work focuses on CMV and other viruses in people who can develop severe illness, particularly infants with cCMV.

Vanessa Colleran


Parent Advocate, Educator

Vanessa Colleran is an educator, licensed in the areas of reading, special education, and elementary education. She currently works as an elementary reading specialist in Shrewsbury, MA. Vanessa is the mother to three beautiful boys, her oldest son Sam, her youngest son Julian, and her son in heaven, Logan. Logan was born with cCMV and passed away from the disease at 4 months old. Since then, she has become an advocate for cCMV prevention and awareness.

Dr. Cheryl Glovsky

Senior Audiologist, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Dr. Cheryl Glovsky is an audiologist with more than 25 years of experience. Prior to her experience in Boston, she worked at the Lewis-Gale Ear, Nose, and Throat Group in Roanoke, Virginia. She earned her master’s degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and her doctorate from A.T. Still University. Dr. Glovsky is a nationally certified and state-licensed audiologist with professional associations including the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Dr. Glovsky’s clinical interests include providing patient care to all populations, ranging from pediatric to elderly. She is proficient in a wide variety of services including hearing aids and assistive listening devices, cochlear implants, and specialized diagnostic evaluations. She is currently the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) program coordinator for Massachusetts General Hospital, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Glovsky also acts as the liaison to the Department of Public Health. 

Tracy Evans Luiselli

Director of New England Consortium on Deafblindness

Tracy Evans Luiselli, Ed.D., is Director of the New England Consortium on Deafblindness (NEC), a federally funded grant supported by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). She has developed numerous consultation and training models to support families and their service providers working with children with combined vision and hearing loss (deafblindness). Her professional interests include multi-tiered systems of support, cortical and cerebral vision impairment, teacher education, and family support. In those areas, she has authored/co-authored peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. She presents frequently at local, state and national levels regarding sensory loss and additional disabilities. 

Rebecca Sandvos

Pediatric Resident, Mass General Brigham for Children

Rebecca is a pediatric resident at Mass General Brigham for Children. She attended University of Massachusetts T.H. Chan Medical School, where her scholarly work focused on cCMV and medical education. Rebecca attended Colorado College for her undergraduate degree in Organismal Biology and Ecology. Between college and medical school, she lived in Denver where she worked as a pediatric medical assistant and later in Cambridge where she volunteered at the BMC Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights. 

Shayne Gaffney


Parent Advocate

Shayne Gaffney holds a bachelor’s degree in Health Science in Professional Development and Advanced Patient Care, is a licensed physical therapy assistant in Massachusetts, an associate board member, and the Community Alliance Chair of NH for the National CMV Foundation, and a proud parent of a cCMV affected child. 

Dr. Michael Cohen

Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Mass Eye and Ear

Dr. Michael Cohen is a fellowship-trained pediatric otolaryngologist who has a special interest in caring for children with hearing loss and other ear conditions. He serves as director of the Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship and director of the Multidisciplinary Pediatric Hearing Loss Clinic at Mass Eye and Ear. Dr. Cohen’s clinical interests are centered around ear problems such as cholesteatoma, eardrum perforations, infections, fluid and retraction, sensorineural hearing loss and conductive hearing loss. The surgeries he performs include cochlear implantation, bone conduction implants and repair of aural atresia. He performs non-invasive ear molding for newborns with ear anomalies. He also cares for children with a wide range of ear, nose and throat problems.

Dr. Barbara Morris

Audiologist

Barbara Morris, Au.D., PASC has a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders and a Master’s Degree in Audiology, both from UMASS Amherst and a Doctorate in Audiology from the Arizona School of Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona. She served on the committee which developed the legislation mandating Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) in Massachusetts and recently retired as the Coordinator of Newborn Hearing Screening for Baystate Health. She is a Past President of the Massachusetts Speech-Language & Hearing Association and Past Chair of the Massachusetts Audiology/Speech-Language Pathology Board of Registration. 

Talia Mango

Audiologist Extern, Boston Children's Hospital

Talia is a fourth year audiology extern at Boston Children’s Hospital and Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Fellow. She currently holds a master’s degree in Severe and Multiple Disabilities from Boston College with a specialization in deafblindness. Professionally, Talia has over ten years of experience working with children with complex needs and deafblindness across educational and research-based settings in Boston and internationally. Her professional interests include early hearing detection and intervention, audiologic care for deafblind patients, and interdisciplinary education for children with multiple disabilities.

Dr. Margaret Kenna

Otolaryngologist, Boston Children's Hospital

Dr. Kenna is an Associate at Boston Children’s Hospital in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement and a Director of Clinical Research in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement. She is also a Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School.

Evelyn Rankin

Professor in Communication Sciences & Disorders, BSU

Evelyn Kuhns-Rankin was the Program Director of the READS Deaf & Hard of Hearing Program from 1998-2024. She is a Speech & Language Pathologist, Special Education Administrator, a Teacher of the Deaf-ASL, and a Teacher of the Deaf- Auditory/Oral. She currently teaches part time at Bridgewater State University in the Communication Disorders Department and works on a per diem basis at READS Collaborative as well as other facilities. 

Danielle Lavon

Parent Advocate, President of Mass Hands & Voices

Danielle Lavon, CFRE, is a parent advocate from Billerica, MA, and the mother of a child born with congenital CMV. After her son’s missed diagnosis led to profound hearing loss and cochlear implant surgery at ten months old, she became committed to ensuring no family faces the same lack of testing, awareness or access to early screening. Danielle also serves as the Board President of Massachusetts Hands & Voices, where she leads statewide efforts to support families raising children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

Sara Holcomb

Parent Advocate

Sara is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Criteo, the largest independent advertising technology firm in performance marketing and retail media. Prior to joining Criteo, she led strategy for Dentsu’s Global Retail Media Partnership and spent more than 15 years at Google, where she developed partnership and agency models spanning Google’s AdTech, Cloud, and Ads businesses. 

Sara is the parent of two children; her youngest, August, has cCMV. Sara has devoted herself to cCMV and DHH awareness serving as the MA Community Alliance chair for the National CMV Foundation and joining the board of The Clarke School teaching deaf and hard of hearing children to listen and speak.