Bücher von Gary P. Jacobson

Gary Jacobson, Ph.D. Dr. Gary Jacobson is Professor and Director of the Division of Audiology at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prior to this he was the Director of the Division of Audiology, and Adjunct Staff in the Department of Neurology for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his undergraduate studies at California State University at Fullerton. He received his M.S. in Communicative Disorders (Audiology) at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and received has Ph.D. from Kent State University. He served as the Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Section (Neurology Service) at the VA Medical Center in Cincinnati from 1979-1988. During that time he served as both Director of the Evoked Potentials Laboratory and, Director of the Intraoperative Monitoring Program for the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Jacobson is a Past President of the American Society of Neurophysiological Monitoring, and has served on the Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Directors of the American Tinnitus Association. He is the past-editor of The American Journal of Audiology (American Speech-Language Hearing Association) and a past Assistant Editor (Evoked Potentials) for The Journal of the American Academy of Audiology (American Academy of Audiology). He is an Editorial Board member for the journals Brain Topography and Seminars in Hearing. He is an Ad Hoc reviewer for 10 other scientific journals. He has authored and co-authored over 100 publications that cover the areas of tinnitus, dizziness, auditory function, outcome measures development, brain mapping and intraoperative neurophysiology. He is co-editor of the text Handbook of Balance Function Testing. He is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, and a recipient of the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology from the American Academy of Audiology. Neil Shepard, Ph.D. Dr. Neil Shepard, is Director of the Dizziness and Balance Disorders Program at Mayo Clinic - Rochester and Professor of Audiology in the Mayo Clinical School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate and masters training in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering from University of Kentucky and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD in auditory electrophysiology and clinical audiology from the University of Iowa in 1979. He has specialized in clinical electrophysiology for both the auditory and vestibular systems. Activity over the last 27 years has concentrated on the clinical assessment and rehabilitation of balance disorder patients and clinical research endeavors related to both assessment and rehabilitation. Contributors Adolfo Bronstein, M.D., Ph.D. Craig Newman, PhD Dennis O'Leary, Ph.D. Devin McCaslin, Ph.D. Erin Piker, BS Faith Akin, Ph.D. Heather Rudisill, Au.D. J. Andrew Dundas, M.A. James McPherson, M.S. Jeffery Staab, M.D., M.S. Joseph Furman, M.D., Ph.D. Kamran Barin, Ph.D. Kristen Janky, Au.D. Linda Davis, B.A. Marc Bennett, M.D. Mark Wiet, M.D. Michael Schubert, Ph.D. Nabih Ramadan, M.D. Owen Murnane, Ph.D. Richard Gans, Ph.D. Richard Roberts, Ph.D. Robert Brey, Ph.D. Robert Lynch, B.S.E. Sarah Grantham, Au.D. Sherri Jones, Ph.D. Steven Telian, M.D. Susan Whitney, Ph.D. Timothy Hain, M.D.