Dr. Pape received her Bachelor of Arts in Education of the Hearing Impaired from Lenoir-Rhyne College in 1986, spent four years teaching deaf children in Savannah, Georgia and then decided to further her education and received her Master of Education in Audiology from the University of Georgia in 1992 and Doctor of Audiology from the Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2006.  She has worked in many settings as an audiologist from working at the Central North Carolina School for the Deaf, a private practice and ENT.  She has worked with patients of all ages and in various areas of audiology: educational audiologist, diagnostic audiology and hearing and balance disorders.   She is a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the American Academy of Audiology.