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Dr.Yvonne Sininger received her bachelor’s degree in Speech and Hearing and master’s degree in Audiology from Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Science from the University of California Santa Barbara & San Francisco. Dr. Sininger started her career and developed an interest in infants and children as a clinical audiologist for the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. After her Ph.D. she moved to House Ear Institute in Los Angeles as a Post-doctoral fellow in electrophysiology and later as the director of the Children’s Auditory Research and Evaluation Center. She has recently moved to UCLA where she is currently visiting Professor of Head & Neck Surgery. Dr. Sininger’s research interests lie in Electrophysiologic measures of hearing and auditory system development. She has had funding from the NIDCD for auditory development in infants and children with hearing loss. She is a co-investigator on another NIH project entitled “Connexin 26 Testing in Infants”. She is also director of Newborn Hearing Screening at UCLA.
Postdoctoral Education
| Institution |
Level (Intern,
Resident, Fellow) |
Department |
Year |
| House Ear Institute |
Post-Doc Fellow |
Electrophysiology |
1986 |
Research Interests
- Developmental aspects of the auditory system, normal and disordered
Clinical Interests
Honors and Awards
- 2001 Editor’s Award for Outstanding Research Ear and Hearing Journal, American Auditory Society
- 2001 California Speech and Hearing Association District 6 Outstanding Achievement Award
- 2000 Recipient, Freedom Award for Communications/Los Angeles Sertoma Club
Titles
Memberships in Scholarly or Professional Societies
- Acoustical Society of America
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Auditory Society
- A.G. Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- Association for Research in Otolaryngology
- California Academy of Audiology California Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- American Academy of Audiology
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group
National Elected Office Organizations
- Board of Directors, American Academy of Audiology
- Council, International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group
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