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National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR)
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The NCRAR is cultivating a community of clinicians, research scientists, and scholars who can address the communicative, economic, psychosocial, and vocational issues associated with auditory disorders. The Center is unique because of the broad range of professionals who work together with a focus on delivering rehabilitative therapeutics within the lifetime of the Veteran, with the greatest effectiveness and in a way that promotes efficiency.
Currently, more than 40 professionals are engaged in a variety of research and development activities of the NCRAR. Working alongside auditory research scientists and audiologists, it is commonplace to find such other professionals as healthcare educators, immunologists, otolaryngologists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, oncologists, and speech-language pathologists.
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Administration
| M. Patrick Feeney, Ph.D. | Director |
| Dawn Konrad-Martin, Ph.D. | Associate Director |
| Patrick Helt, M.A. | Deputy Director, Administrative Officer |
| Christine Kaelin, MBA | Education and Outreach Manager; Financial Management |
| Marianne Pierson, MA | Health Science Specialist |
| Bryan Shaw, B.S. | Program Support Assistant |
Core and Associate Investigators
| Curtis Billings, Ph.D. | Electrophysiology, auditory plasticity, and aging |
| Naomi Bramhall, Ph.D. | Electrophysiology, “hidden” hearing loss |
| Kathleen Carlson, M.S., Ph.D. | Epidemiology, Health Services research, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), tinnitus |
| Khaya Clark, Ph.D. | Implementation science, Health Services research, tinnitus, ototoxicity |
| M. Patrick Feeney, Ph.D. | Peripheral auditory function, hearing screening, and aging |
| Robert Folmer, Ph.D. | Hearing conservation, tinnitus |
| Frederick (Erick) Gallun, Ph.D. | Psychoacoustics and cognitive processing |
| Angela Garinis, Ph.D. | Ototoxicity, physiologic measures of peripheral and central auditory processing |
| Timothy Hullar, M.D. | Vestibular disorders, multisensory integration, cochlear implantation |
| Tess Koerner, Ph.D., Au.D. | Electrophysiology, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) |
| Dawn Konrad-Martin, Ph.D. | Peripheral auditory function, aging, diabetes & ototoxicity |
| Miranda Lim, M.D., Ph.D. | TBI/PTSD, sleep, rehabilitation, multisensory sensitivity |
| Michelle Molis, Ph.D. | Speech perception |
| Melissa Papesh, Ph.D. Au.D. | Clinical auditory neuroscience |
| Kelly Reavis, Ph.D., M.S., MPH | Epidemiology, Population and Military Hearing Health, Infectious Disease |
| Robert Peterka, Ph.D. | Balance control, sensory integration, vestibular disorders |
| Sarah Theodoroff, Ph.D. | Tinnitus, decreased sound tolerance disorders, psychoacoustics |
Research Support Staff
| Serena Dann, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Stephanie Edmunds, MS | Research Coordinator |
| Melissa Frederick, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Matthew Hamilton-Sutherland, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Wendy Helt, M.A. | Grants Administrator, Lead Research Audiologist |
| Michelle Hungerford, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Michele Hutter, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Madison Jones, B.S. | Research Assistant |
| Sean Kampel, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Daniel McDermott, M.A. | Research Audiologist |
| Joseph Nadeau, B.A. | Research Assistant |
| Desiree Odgers, B.S. | Research Assistant |
| Daniel Putterman, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Chandra Random, B.A. | Research Assistant |
| Sambith Rout, B.S. | Research Assistant |
| Alice Scarlet | Research Assistant |
| Gregory Sebastian, B.A. | Research Assistant |
| ShienPei Silverman, M.A. | Research Coordinator |
| Anneka Sonstroem, B.A. | Research Assistant |
| Sachyea Spackman | Research Assistant |
| Samrita Thapa, MPH | Research Assistant |
| Emily Thielman, M.S. | Research Coordinator & Statistician |
| Jay Vachhani, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
| Nicole Whittle, Au.D. | Research Audiologist |
Engineer and Technical Support Staff
- Sam Gordon, B.S.E.E., Biomedical Engineer
- Garnett McMillan, Ph.D., Biostatistician
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Laura Coco, Au,D., Ph.D.
- Riley DeBacker, Au.D.
Au.D. 4th Year Externs (2023-2024)
- Kaylee Pigott, BS, BA
- Jwala Rejimon, BS
T35/Summer Students (2023)
- Flores, Ezra, BS
- Langenek, Breanna, BA
- Medrano, Leroy, BS
- Mitchell, Eric, BS
Affiliate Investigators
- Michelle Cameron, M.D., PT, MCR, Falls, imbalance and functional mobility in multiple sclerosis
- Royce Clifford, MD, Otolaryngology, genetics of functional decline in the auditory and vestibular systems
- Laurie King, Ph.D., PT, Traumatic brain injury, gait and balance, rehabilitation
- M. Samantha Lewis, Ph.D.
- Gabrielle Saunders, Ph.D., Hearing aid outcomes & hearing conservation
- Peter Steyger, Ph.D., Mechanisms and pre-clinical models of ototoxicity
Affiliate Clinicians
- Tricia Milnes, MHA, AuD, CCC-A, AIB-VAM, Chief, Audiology and Speech Pathology Services, Charlie Norwood VAMC, Augusta, Georgia
- Tara Zaugg, Au.D., Associate Director of Rehab/EC Consultant (RECC), VISN 20
