• Ph D, Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, 2020
• AuD, Audiology, University of Minnesota, 2017
• MA, Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota, 2016
• BA, Communication Disorders, Augustana University, 2013

• Audiology, Minnesota
• Certificate of Clinical Competence - Audiology, American Speech-Language Hearing Association
• Audiology, South Dakota
• Audiology, MD

• Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, Department of Defense, (2023 - 2025)
• Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention, Health Resources and Services Administration, (2023 - 2023)
• Universal Newborn Hearing Screening And Intervention, Health Resources and Services Administration, (2023 - 2023)

Citations listed below are presented in a standardized, modified format for display purposes only. They do not necessarily reflect the preferred style and conventions of the faculty member or discipline.

• Kulinski, Devon, Carr, Walter, Garfield, Bradley, Salib, Jonathan, Dirks, Coral, Sheffield, Benjamin, and Brungart, Douglas . Acute hearing deficits associated with weapons exposure in Section 734 Blast Overpressure Study. Military Medicine.
• Dirks, Coral. Quality of Life Impact of Cochlear Implantation for Single-Sided Deafness: Assessing the Interrelationship of Objective and Subjective Measures, e125-e132. Vol. 44, Iss. 3 Otology & Neurotology. (DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0000000000003783)

• President's Award for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Arts and Sciences Nominee, University of South Dakota, 2023
• Belbas-Larson Award for Excellence in Teaching Nominee, 2023
• A & S Travel Grant Program, USD College of Arts and Sciences, 2022

• Bernstein, Joshua, Eitel, Megan, Phatak, Sandeep, Kragh-Jensen, Kenneth, Pillion, Elicia, Dirks, Coral, and Goupell, Matthew, Contralateral unmasking for single-sided-deafness cochlear-implant users with shifted frequency assignments to reduce interaural place mismatch. Presented at the 2023 Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, Lake Tahoe, NV. (July 10, 2023)