Sharon Kujawa, Ph.D., is an auditory neuroscientist and clinician. Her research focuses on primary causes of hearing loss like noise exposure and aging, aiming to reveal the underlying cellular damage and its consequences to hearing function. In recent years, this work has given rise to the concept of “hidden hearing loss”—declines in hearing function that are not revealed by the threshold audiogram, but are well known to those who experience them. In this webinar, Kujawa provides an overview of what we know and how this information is shaping approaches to diagnosis and treatment.
A 1999 Emerging Research Grants recipient and a member of both HHF's Council of Scientific Trustees and its Board of Directors, Kujawa is a professor of otolaryngology–head and neck surgery at Harvard Medical School and a principal investigator at Eaton-Peabody Laboratories at Mass Eye and Ear, where she holds the Sheldon and Dorothea Buckler Chair in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.
The Hearing Health Foundation research webinar series is moderated by Anil Lalwani, M.D., the head of HHF’s Council of Scientific Trustees, which oversees the Emerging Research Grants program, and a member of HHF’s board, Lalwani is the chief of the division of otology, neurology, and skull base surgery; the vice chair for research, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery; and associate dean for student research at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.
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