PhD Students
Meet the PhD Students
| Name | Stephanie Adamovich |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Pediatrics; cochlear implants |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | Research audiologist - RERC-HE; Field Initiated Grant on Cochlear Implants; Self-Hearing Project |
| Name | Tiffany Harvey |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Cochlear implants; electrophysiological methods |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | CI project with the RERC-HE |
| Name | Elizabeth Hellmuth |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Electrophysiology; pediatric diagnostics |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | N/A |
| Name | Lina R. Kubli |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Effects of noise trauma and traumatic brain injury on hearing; central auditory processing; auditory evoked potentials. |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | Research and clinical audiologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center; currently working on VA-WR study to evaluate central auditory processing disorders associated with blast exposure. |
| Name | Ruth Marin |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Genetics of deafness |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | Participates in research projects and presentations in collaboration with the Genetics program at Gallaudet University; has presented poster sessions at the American Academy of Audiology 2006 and 2007; general dissertation topic: The Vestibular Function of Subjects with GJB2 Deafness; most recent publication: Welch KO, Marin RS, Pandya A, Arnos KS. 2007. Compound heterozygosity for dominant and recessive GJB2 mutations: Effect on phenotype and review of the literature. Am J Med Genet Part A 143A: 1567-1573. |
| Name | Annette Mazevski |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Hearing aids; listening effort; outcome measures; AR |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | Supervising two 2nd-year students; research; beginning data collection on the tracking procedure through RERC-HE; instructor for the Peer Mentoring Program |
| Name | Gloria Nathanson |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Vestibular phenotype of people with Waardenburg Syndrome |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | Development of instructional material or clinical sign language in audiology |
| Name | Sarah Sydlowski |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Cochlear implants; pathophysiology of the auditory and vestibular systems; electrophysiology |
| Clinical/Research Activities: | Research audiologist, NIDRR Field Initiated Programs Grant: An Automatic Fitting Algorithm for Cochlear Implants (Dr. Matthew Bakke); Superficial Siderosis of the Central Nervous System |
| Name | Julie Martinez Verhoff |
| Clinical/Research Interests: | Aural rehabilitation with adult cochlear implant recipients using Cued Speech |
| Clinical/Research Activites: | Research Audiologist/Graduate Assistant in the Division of Auditory and Communication Neuroscience at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, California. Assists with the Multisensory Processing: Plasticity & Accommodation to a Sensory Prosthesis (NIH R01, PI: Lynne E. Bernstein) study that is investigating the effects of gaining a sensory modality after its lifelong deprivation, and the Development and Evaluation of a Concatenative Cued Speech Synthesis System (NIH R03, PI: Jintao Jiang) study that is investigating whether coarticulation of cues is essential for effectively learning Cued Speech. |
