HYPERACUSIS RESEARCH - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Scientific Advisor
- Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery / Johns Hopkins University
The overall goal of Amanda's research at Lauer Lab is to understand how auditory input from the ear affects the brain, and how the brain in turn affects the ear through efferent feedback loops. Amanda is particularly interested in understanding hearing disorders (like tinnitus and hyperacusis) that develop when input to and from the brain is altered. Amanda established her own laboratory in the Center for Hearing and Balance at Johns Hopkins where her team studies the functional and anatomical consequences of various forms of acquired hearing loss, including hereditary hearing loss, acute sound overexposure, and chronic noise exposure.
Job Titles:
- President
- Inventive Problem Solving Expert
Hyperacusis Research president Bryan Pollard is quoted: "The pain is crippling and life-altering. Sounds as normal as a squeaky door feel like a knife in the ear."
Job Titles:
- Scientific Advisor
- Professor, Otolaryngology Anatomy & Neurobiology / University of California, Irvine
In 2000, Professor Zeng founded the Hearing and Speech (HESP) laboratory at UC Irvine to conduct basic and translational research in the following areas: understand mechanisms underlying normal and pathological hearing, improve hearing aid and cochlear implant performance, and find a safe and effective treatment for tinnitus and hyperacusis. Professor Zeng uses a systems and modeling approach to understand how the ear and the brain work together to process sounds, including human speech and music.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Secretary / Manufacturing and Distribution Executive
Job Titles:
- Scientific Advisor
- Professor of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School / Director, Eaton - Peabody Labs, Mass. Eye and Ear
Charles Liberman is Director of the Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Liberman assists Hyperacusis Research with strategies for supporting research and engaging research interest at scientific meetings such as the annual Mid-Winter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO).
Job Titles:
- Scientific Advisor
- Consulting
- Health Informatics and Economics Consultant
Iver Juster, M.D., is a Health Informatics and economics consultant at several companies. His role with Hyperacusis Research is to help bridge the perspectives of researchers, patients, and clinicians.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Comptroller / Business and Process Analyst, Engineering
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- Trust and Estate Attorney
Job Titles:
- Scientific Advisor
- Director of the Eaton - Peabody Laboratories at Massachusetts Eye
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- President / Manager, Data Analysis and Reporting
Research in Dr. Salvi's lab focuses on various areas in hearing and deafness. Dr. Salvi is interested in the changes in auditory perception and the electrophysiological changes that occur when the inner hair cells are selectively destroyed by ototoxic drugs or acoustic overstimulation. Dr. Salvi is working to identify the biological mechanisms that give rise to the phantom sound of tinnitus and to identify drugs that can suppress tinnitus. Dr. Salvi has also been pursuing similar investigations into the mechanisms of hyperacusis.