I am the scientific director for Audiology in the Communication Sciences Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and a professor of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cincinnati.
I have more than 25 years of pediatric clinical, research, and teaching experience. A graduate and former faculty member of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Minnesota, I developed and directed the AuD program at the University of Utah. I was a visiting scientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and have volunteered in Kenya on audiologic missions at a school for the deaf.
I have authored more than 90 published articles, chapters, and books in pediatric audiology and frequently lecture nationally and internationally, as well as serve on expert panels and task forces. I am currently conducting studies on a range of pediatric hearing loss, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). I also serve as chair of the Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education (ACAE).
MA: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1986.
PhD: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1993.
Fellow: American Academy of Audiology, 1993.
Licensure: State of Ohio Board of Audiology.
Diagnostic pediatric audiology; congenital hearing loss; student precepting
Middle ear physiology; newborn hearing screening; childhood hearing loss diagnosis; intervention trials
Reproductive Sciences, Audiology, Communication Sciences
Peripheral Auditory Involvement in Childhood Listening Difficulty. Ear and Hearing. 2021; 42:29-41.
Extended high frequency hearing and speech perception implications in adults and children. Hearing Research. 2020; 397:107922.
Protocol for Rapid, Accurate, Electrophysiologic, Auditory Assessment of Infants and Toddlers. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 2020; 31:455-468.
High frequency transient-evoked otoacoustic emission measurements using chirp and click stimuli. Hearing Research. 2019; 371:117-139.
Optimizing Clinical Interpretation of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Infants. Ear and Hearing. 2018; 39:1075-1090.
Longitudinal Development of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Infants With Normal Hearing. Ear and Hearing. 2018; 39:863-873.
Cochlear Microphonic and Summating Potential Responses from Click-Evoked Auditory Brain Stem Responses in High-Risk and Normal Infants. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 2018; 29:427-442.
Amplitude Modulation Perception and Cortical Evoked Potentials in Children With Listening Difficulties and Their Typically Developing Peers. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 2024; 67:633-656.
Language Outcomes of Children Born Very Preterm in Relation to Early Maternal Depression and Anxiety. Brain Sciences. 2023; 13.