Dr. Aland has been in private practice since 1986. She received her bachelor's degree from East Tennessee University in Communicative Disorders, her Master's Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Audiology, and her Doctorate of Audiology from the University of Florida. Her previous experiences include clinical work at Womack Army Hospital, the Durham V.A. Hospital, and ENT Clinic at the University of North Carolina Hospital. She has also served the Deaf/Blind Program at the North Carolina School for the Blind, Chief Contract audiologist, neo-natal intensive-care hearing evaluation service, Anne Arundel Medical Center. Her special expertise is in counseling and fitting computer programmable hearing instruments. Dr. Aland was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the State Board of Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists for two consecutive terms and served one year as chair.