The Global Center for Hearing & Speech Research is a focal point of hearing, speech and deafness research, including ties with the Departments of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Chemical & Biomedical Engineering, and School of Aging Studies. The Center clinicians and researchers have diverse backgrounds and expertise at multiple levels: research scientists, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, research audiologists, technicians, and students. Through the Center's faculty and trainees, affiliations and collaborations involving the Center represent distinct and varied professional disciplines within the University, across the country, and internationally.

Current and past Trainees & Staff

Dr. Robert Frisina

Name	Status	Lab Location	Project	Status
Parveen Bazard, Ph.D.	Research Associate	USF	Therapeutic Interventions for Age-Related Hearing Loss	Current
Mark Bauer, M.S.	Ph.D. Student- BME	USF	Drug Development to Treat Age-Related Hearing Loss	Current
Dominika Borakiewicz, M.S.	Ph.D. Student- BME	USF	Mechanisms of Acquired Hearing Loss	Current
Tobias De Souza	Undergrad- BME Major	USF	3D Bioprinting of Blood Vessel Tissue	Current
Lauren Paganella, B.S.	M.S Student- BME	USF	Molecular Biology of Age-Related Hearing Loss	Current
Jennifer Pineros, M.S.	Ph.D. Student- BME	USF	Connexin Gap Junctions and Age-Linked Hearing Loss	Current
Mark Thivierge	Undergrad- BME Major	USF	Neural Mechanisms of Hearing Loss Therapies	Current
Cameron Triana	Undergrad- BME Major	USF	3D Printing of Cartilage for ENT Reconstruction	Current
Reza Amanipour, M.S.	Ph.D. Student- BME	USF	Drug Testing for Prevention of Noise-Induced Hear. Loss	Past
Valentine Barraza	Florida High School Student	USF	Functional Anatomy of the Auditory System	Past
Ratka Damnjanovic, M.S	Ph.D. Student- BME	USF	Laser, Plasmonic Hybrid Stimulation of Nerve Cells	Past
Kathy Liu	Undergrad- BME Major	Johns Hopkins Univ.	Biological Mechanisms of Presbycusis	Past
Melinda Moffitt	Undergrad Audiology Major	Univ. N. FL	Combination Therapy to Prevent Hearing Loss	Past
Nate Watson	Undergrad- BME Major	Duke Univ.	Inflammation and Age-related Hearing Loss	Past
Sayantani Adhikary	Florida High School Student	USF	Genetic Analyses Changes in the Aging Auditory System	Past
Parveen Bazzard, M.S.	Ph.D. Student in Chemical Eng	USF	Novel Methodologies for Nano-particle Stimulation of the Auditory and Somatosensory Systems	Past
Carlos Cruz	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Aging Auditory System: Anatomical and Physiological Deficits	Past
Joseph Dituri M.S.	Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Eng	USF	Cardiac and Respiratory Physiology Monitoring	Past
Nicole Febles, M.S.	Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Eng	USF	Tissue Engineering Approaches to Treating Hearing Loss & Deafness	Past
Karim Hamidi M.S.	Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Eng	USF	Physiology of Sodium and Potassium Cell Membrane Channels	Past
Rebecca Henry	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Physiological Age Changes in Auditory Processing	Past
Ashley Hinton, Au.D.	Student in Communication Sciences & Disorders	USF	Age-Related Hearing Loss in Animal Models	Past
Jared Hirschfield	Florida High School Honors Student	USF	Neuroscience and Behavioral Investigations of Age-Related Hearing Loss	Past
Harish Kumar, B.S.	USF Masters Student in Biomedical Engineering	USF	Ion Channels Modulated with Hormone Therapy	Past
James Ledbetter	Univ. S. Carolina Undergrad in Biomedical Engineering	USF	Photonic Stimulation of Nerve Cells	Past
Carlos Lodeiro	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Laser/Nanoparticle Stimulation of Nerve Cells	Past
Alexander Malone, M.D.	USF Surgical Resident in Otolaryngology	USF	Molecular Biological Bases of Hearing Loss	Past
Lauren Mannix	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Molecular Pathway Alterations in the Aging Auditory System	Past
Elizabeth Schaefer	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Neural Changes Characteristic of Presbycusis	Past
Alaa Taha	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Neural Changes in Age-Related Auditory Processing	Past
Chandler Walton	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Genetics of Age-related Hearing Loss	Past
Tanika Williamson, B.S.	Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Eng	USF	Neural and Molecular Underpinnings of Age-Linked Hearing Loss in Animal Models	Past
McKenzie Watson	USF Undergraduate in Chemical Engineering	USF	Neurobiological Underpinnings of Age-Related Hearing Loss	Past
Xiaoxia Zhu, M.D.	Senior Bioscientist	USF	Multi-Disciplinary Determination of the Neural and Molecular Bases of Age-Related Hearing Loss	Current

Dr. Joseph Walton

Name	Status	Lab Location	Project	Status
Luis Franco-Waite, M.S.	Ph.D. Student- BME	USF	Neurophysiological correlates of age-related hearing loss	Current
Elliott Brecht, M.S.	Ph.D. Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering	USF	Neurophysiological correlates of age-related hearing loss	Past
Joshua Halonen, Ph.D.	Neuroscience, Research Fellow	USF	Behavioral and neural correlates of sound perception in a mouse model of hormone replacement	Past
Ashley Hinton, B.A.	AuD/PhD Student, CSD	USF	Behavioral and neural correlates of sound perception in a mouse model of hormone replacement	Past
Ryan Longenecker, Ph.D.	Pos-Doc Research Assoc.	USF	Behavioral Measures of Age-Related Hearing Loss	Past
Andrea Lowe, B.S.	Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering	USF	Neural correlates of drug and noise induced tinnitus in animal models	Past
Nicole Wood	Honors Undergraduate Pre-Med Major	USF	Effects of Aldosterone on behavioral measures of auditory temporal processing	Past

Dr. Ann Eddins

Name	Status	Lab Location	Project
Natalie Douglas, Ph.D.	Ph.D. Research Student in Audiology	USF	Organizational Readiness to Implement External Memory Aids for Residents with Dementia .
Makenzie Kline, Au.D.	Au.D. Graduate Student in Audiology	USF	Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of binaural envelope and fine-structure coding.
Amy Murray, Au.D.	Au.D. Graduate Student in Audiology	USF	The effect of auditory training on behavioral and event-related potential measures of auditory memory.
Bryce Romershausen, Au.D.	Au.D. Graduate Student in Audiology	USF	Neural correlates of the binaural masking level difference in older adults.