Meet the Team

Vanessa Colleran is a special education teacher and reading specialist who has dedicated her life to teaching children in urban school districts. More importantly, she is a mother to three beautiful boys, her oldest son Sam, her son youngest Julian, and her son in heaven, Logan. Logan was born with congenital CMV in June 2017, weighing only 1 lb. 2.2 oz. He was born three months early and very sick with the virus. After 4 months in the NICU and lots of love from his parents, Logan passed away after his strain of CMV became resistant to his antiviral medication. Since then, Vanessa and her husband Peter have become passionate about educating pregnant women and medical professionals about the dangers of CMV and, more importantly, its prevention.

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 (infants to young adults), 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.

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. 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.

Barbara Morris, Au.D., PASC has a Bachelor of Science in Communication Disorders and a Master’s Degree in Audiology, both from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and a Doctorate in Audiology from the Arizona School of Health Sciences at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona. She is Board Certified in Audiology by the American Board of Audiology (ABA) and holds Specialty Certification in Pediatric Audiology from the ABA. She served on the committee which developed the legislation mandating Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) in Massachusetts and is the Coordinator of Newborn Hearing Screening for Baystate Health where she has been a strong advocate of increased testing for cCMV. 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. In addition to her extensive diagnostic and hearing aid work with adults and children of all ages, Barb also provides Educational Audiology services to hard of hearing children mainstreamed in area public schools.