Assistant Professor – University of Kansas Medical Center
The Hearing and Speech Department at the University of Kansas Medical Center seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in Audiology/Hearing Science at the rank of Assistant Professor. The position is expected to begin as early as August 2023.
The University of Kansas Medical Center is a major comprehensive research and teaching center with numerous centers and institutes, including the Hogland Brain Imaging Center, the Alzheimer’s Disease Center, the Cancer Institute, and the Center for Aging. The School of Health Professions, where this position is housed, has a newly established center, KU-CARES (KU Center for Community Access, Rehabilitation Research, Education and Service), to provide robust support for research within the School. Collectively, these centers offer numerous resources including subject recruitment, funding, and research design.
The Medical Center campus includes the Schools of Health Professions, Medicine, and Nursing, which together enroll about 4000 students. The recently completed 171,000 square foot Health Education Building provides advanced technology classrooms and simulation labs. The Department of Hearing and Speech houses a dedicated audiology simulation lab equipped with state-of-the-art software and equipment to facilitate clinical-skill development among first- and second-year Au.D. students. In January 2023, the Department will open a new clinical vestibular lab equipped with a comprehensive suite of diagnostic equipment, including a rotary chair.
The successful candidate will be expected to (1) develop an extramurally funded research program in their area of expertise and to regularly disseminate findings in peer-reviewed publications and presentations, (2) teach graduate courses in the audiology clinical doctorate (Au.D.) and Ph.D. degree programs in the Department of Hearing and Speech, which is part of the University of Kansas’ nationally ranked Intercampus Program in Communicative Disorders, (3) advise and mentor graduate students, including Ph.D. dissertations and Au.D. capstone research projects, and (4) provide service to the department, school, university, and discipline at a level commensurate with their rank.
Required Qualifications: Ph.D. degree in Audiology, Hearing Science, Neuroscience, Psychology, Biomedical Engineering or related field. Expertise in hearing or vestibular sciences related to normal or disordered function. Evidence of potential for the development of a funded, programmatic line of research. Evidence of ability to effectively teach and mentor graduate students.
Preferred Qualifications: Post-doctoral experience. Expertise in one or more of the following areas is desirable: Auditory Physiology, Auditory Electrophysiology, Cochlear Implants and Implantable Prostheses, Hearing Aids, Speech Perception, Aging and the Auditory System, Vestibular Physiology and Diagnostics, Genetics of Hearing Loss. All areas of expertise within Audiology and the Hearing Sciences are encouraged to apply. ASHA Certification (CCC-A) preferred but not required.
Application Process: Review of applications will begin on Nov. 1, 2022. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
For a complete announcement and to apply online, go to https://jobs.kumc.edu/ and search for position JR004410. With the online application, be prepared to submit an application cover letter, a teaching statement, a research statement, a CV, and a list of three references. Questions regarding the position or the application process should be directed to Dr. Tiffany Johnson, Search Committee Chair, by email: tjohnson7@kumc.edu or phone: 913-588-5937. EO/AA Employer.
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Kirupa Suthakar, PhD - Dr Kirupa Suthakar is a postdoctoral fellow at NIH/NIDCD, having formerly trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and doctoral student at Garvan Institute of Medical Research/UNSW Australia. Kirupa's interest in the mind and particular fascination by how we are able to perceive the world around us led her to pursue a research career in auditory neuroscience. To date, Kirupa's research has broadly focused on neurons within the auditory efferent circuit, which allow the brain to modulate incoming sound signals at the ear. Kirupa is active member of the spARO community, serving as the Chair Elect for 2021.
Charles C. Della Santina, PhD MD is a Professor of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directs the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Implant Center and the Johns Hopkins Vestibular NeuroEngineering Laboratory.
Andrew Griffith received his MD and PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1992. He completed his general surgery internship and a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan in 1998. He also completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Human Genetics as part of his training at the University of Michigan. In 1998, he joined the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) in the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). He served as a senior investigator, the chief of the Molecular Biology and Genetics Section, the chief of the Otolaryngology Branch, and the director of the DIR, as well as the deputy director for Intramural Clinical Research across the NIH Intramural Research Program. His research program identifies and characterizes molecular and cellular mechanisms of normal and disordered hearing and balance in humans and mouse models. Two primary interests of his program have been hearing loss associated with enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct, and the function of TMC genes and proteins. The latter work lead to the discovery that the deafness gene product TMC1 is a component of the hair cell sensory transduction channel. Since July of 2020, he has served as the Senior Associate Dean of Research and a Professor of Otolaryngology and Physiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Gwenaëlle S. G. Géléoc obtained a PhD in Sensory Neurobiology from the University of Sciences in Montpellier (France) in 1996. She performed part of her PhD training at the University of Sussex, UK where she characterized sensory transduction in vestibular hair cells and a performed a comparative study between vestibular and cochlear hair cells. Gwenaelle continued her training as an electrophysiologist at University College London studying outer hair cell motility and at Harvard Medical School studying modulation of mechanotransduction in vestibular hair cells. As an independent investigator at the University of Virginia, she expanded this work and characterized the developmental acquisition of sensory transduction in mouse vestibular hair cells, the developmental acquisition of voltage-sensitive conductances in vestibular hair cells and the tonotopic gradient in the acquisition of sensory transduction in the mouse cochlea. This work along with quantitative spatio-temporal studies performed on several hair cell mechanotransduction candidates lead her to TMC1 and 2 and long-term collaborations with Andrew Griffith and Jeff Holt. Dr. Géléoc is currently Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, at Boston Children’s Hospital where she continues to study molecular players involved in the development and function of hair cells of the inner ear and develops new therapies for the treatment of deafness and balance, with a particular focus on Usher syndrome.
Jeff Holt earned a doctorate from the Department of Physiology at the University of Rochester in 1995 for his studies of inward rectifier potassium channels in saccular hair cells. He went on to a post-doctoral position in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where he characterized sensory transduction and adaptation in hair cells and developed a viral vector system to transfect cultured hair cells. Dr. Holt’s first faculty position was in the Neuroscience Department at the University of Virginia. In 2011 the lab moved to Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. Dr. Holt is currently a Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurology in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center. Dr. Holt and his team have been studying sensory transduction in auditory and vestibular hair cells over the past 20 years, with particular focus on TMC1 and TMC2 over the past 12 years. This work lead to the discovery that TMC1 forms the hair cell transduction channel. His work also focuses on development gene therapy strategies for genetic hearing loss.
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