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AuD Faculty

The following faculty participate in the AuD Joint Doctoral Program and are available as academic and doctoral project advisors.

San Diego State University (SDSU) Program Faculty

  • Dreisbach, Laura, PhD (fulltime). Specializations include human peripheral auditory physiology, auditory evoked potentials (with an emphasis on evoked otoacoustic emissions), psychoacoustic measures to describe peripheral physiology, and high frequency hearing. Research foci: a) OAEs using high frequency stimuli and b) objective and subjective measures of frequency selectivity. Teaches courses in auditory evoked potentials, pediatric audiology, and an advanced seminar in audiological instrumentation. Provides doctoral project advising and research experiences. Email: ldreisba@mail.sdsu.edu
  • Georgeson, Jacque, AuD (fulltime). Clinic Director of Audiology. Manages all aspects of students’ clinical education. Develops, maintains, and monitors off-campus clinic experiences and 4th year externships. Precepts audiology students at the SDSU Audiology Clinic. Areas of expertise include real-ear fittings for hearing aid prescriptions and diagnostics for patients of all ages. Also teaches Professional Issues course, Precepting course, and Clinical Staffing course. Email: jgeorges@mail.sdsu.edu
  • Kramer, Steve, PhD (fulltime). Areas of specialization include clinical issues and techniques in audiology; auditory evoked potentials (including otoacoustic emissions) to describe normal and disordered auditory function; physiological measures for improving the evaluation of certain clinical impairments; newborn hearing screening techniques and programs. Teaches courses in diagnostic audiology and provides mentoring for doctoral projects. Serves as the administrative coordinator the AuD program, and is the AuD Program Co-director (SDSU) working with the UCSD Co-director. Email: skramer@mail.sdsu.edu
  • Mackersie, Carol, PhD (fulltime). Areas of specialization include hearing amplification, psychoacoustics, and speech perception. Research foci: a) psychoacoustic factors underlying individual differences in speech perception & hearing aid benefit b) development of performance outcome measures of hearing aid benefit and c) psychophysiological indices of listening effort Teaches courses in psychoacoustics, research methods, and hearing amplification; provides doctoral project advising and research experiences. Email: cmackers@mail.sdsu.edu
  • Torre III, Peter, PhD (fulltime). Areas of specialization include epidemiology of age-related hearing loss, auditory evoked potentials, and research methods. Research foci: a) risk factors associated with age-related hearing loss, b) the relation between recreational noise exposure and otoacoustic emissions, and c) age-related hearing loss in Latino Americans. Teaches courses in hearing sciences, research topics, aging, and hearing conservation, and will provide doctoral project advising and research experiences. Email: ptorre@mail.sdsu.edu
  • Boothroyd, Arthur, PhD: (part-time). Areas of specialization include aural rehabilitation and speech perception. Research expertise and experience in the sensory capacities of individuals with hearing loss, methods to assess those capacities, and their enhancement with hearing aids, tactile aids, and cochlear implants; has developed methods for quantifying the effects of contextual factors in the perception of spoken language; is active in research, consulting, and research mentoring of doctoral research projects. Email: aboothroyd@cox.net
  • Branch, Carol, MA (part-time). Half-time supervisor of audiology students in the SDSU Audiology Clinic. Specialty areas include hearing aid fittings in children and adults with real ear fitting, digital hearing aids, and diagnostic audiology. Participates in the clinic staffing courses. Email: cbranch@mail.sdsu.edu
  • Guthrie, Lesli, AuD (part-time). Teaches the course on Speech and Language Across Lifespan and Culture, Clinic Staffing, and the online Clinical Integrative Seminar for fourth-year students. Email: lguthrie@mail.sdsu.edu

University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Program Faculty

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  • Zettner, Erika, PhD (fulltime). Program Co-Director. Coordinates academic and clinic placements at UCSD. Supervises AuD students at Perlman Center and teaches courses. Areas of specialization include diagnostic audiology, electrophysiology and otoacoustic emissions as well as treatments including amplification, tinnitus treatments and cochlear implants. Email: ezettner@ucsd.edu
  • Meier, Rebecca, AuD (fulltime). Instructor for AuD courses at UCSD and clinical supervisor for AuD students at Perlman Center. Areas of specialization include adult & pediatric diagnostic audiology, amplification, vestibular assessment, newborn hearing screenings, and aural rehabilitation. Email: rsmeier@ucsd.edu
  • Harris, Jeffrey P., MD, PhD (part-time). Professor & Chairman of Head and Neck Surgery. Teaches the Otology Preceptorship course where AuD students receive training in clinical otology, pre/post-operative assessment of patients, pharmacology related to otology, and clinical assessment of patients with balance disorders at the UCSD Ear Center. Email: jpharris@ucsd.edu
  • Ryan, Allen F., PhD (part-time). Research in Auditory Neuroscience and Otology, including studies of the development of the auditory and vestibular systems, especially molecular control of sensory cell and neuronal maturation in the inner ear. Guest lectures in AuD courses in auditory/vestibular physiology and supervises AuD students during lab rotation and/or doctoral projects. Email: aryan@ucsd.edu
  • Benitez, Luis, MD (part-time). Directs the neurodiagnostic laboratory at UCSD Hearing and Balance Center. Routinely provides ABR, ENG, ECoG assessments for the otology/audiology clinic at UCSD. AuD students rotate through Dr. Benitez’s balance clinic course. Email: lubedi@yahoo.com
  • Bosch, Lauren, AuD (part-time). Fulltime audiologist at the VAMC San Diego and part-time AuD lecturer. Has broad and varied clinical experiences with specialized emphasis in vestibular assessment and rehabilitation. Is principal investigator on a multi-site research study about tinnitus. Teaches balance assessment for the AuD program. Email: Lauren.bosch@med.va.gov
  • Gayle Hicks, PhD (part-time). Lecturer for AuD program. Teaches intraoperative neurodiagnostic monitoring. Has expertise in both pediatric and adult audiological testing and amplification, 20 years experience in multimodality neurodiagnostic procedures. Founded and runs a private practice in San Diego. Email: ghicks@audioscope.org
  • Dabdoub, Alain, PhD (part-time). Assistant Professor in Department of Surgery, UCSD. Research expertise in developmental biology, focusing on the cochlea. Provides mentored research opportunities for students in his laboratory on the School of Medicine Campus and guest lectures for AUD courses at UCSD. Email: adabdoub@ucsd.edu
  • Lin, Shuw-Yow, PhD(part-time). Research on molecular mechanisms in sensory development and function of both the auditory and visual systems. Uses gene knock-down technique in the zebra fish, isolated a zebra fish mutant (similarities to Down Syndrome genetic mutation), and developed knockout mice to study hair cell transduction. Email: slin@ucsd.edu
  • Viirre, Erik, MD, PhD (part-time). Maintains a medical neurotologic practice at UCSD. Specializes in vestibular disorders and tinnitus treatments. Provides clinical preceptorship instruction and research opportunities for AuD students. Email: eviirre@ucsd.edu
  • Nguyen, Quyen, MD, PhD (part-time). Neurotologist at UCSD. Specializes in exostosis, middle ear disorders, single-sided deafness, Meniere’s disease and acoustic neuromas. Lectures for the AuD program at UCSD. Director of the Facial Palsy Clinic at UCSD. Provides research mentorship for AuD students. Email: quyennguyen@ucsd.edu
  • Wian, Debbie, MA (part-time). Audiologist at UCSD since 1997. Provides clinical supervision for AuD students in the areas of hearing assessment and hearing aid fittings. Email: dwian@ucsd.edu
  • Harris, Genevieve, MA (part-time). Audiologist at UCSD since 1991. Provides clinical supervision for AuD students in the areas of hearing assessment and hearing aid fittings. Email: gnharris@ucsd.edu

 

last updated: 8/7/12