Biographies

David R. Moore, PhD

Professor, Division of Pediatric Surgery

Phone: 513-803-4170

Email: david.moore2@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Hearing; development; neuroscience; brain plasticity; biobank 

Biography

David Moore, PhD, is a professor of Otolaryngology and associate director of the Communication Sciences Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Educated (PhD Monash University) in Australia, he spent 22 years at Oxford University on projects including auditory spatial hearing, biology of deafness and the consequences of otitis media. He became professor of Auditory Neuroscience in 2000.

As director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham (2002-12), he focused on auditory development and learning in humans. In 2008, he also co-founded the National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing (NBRUH), refunded in 2011. He has been a visiting scientist at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Washington, Seattle, New York University, and Northwestern University, Chicago.

He was the founder of MindWeavers PLC, creating digital learning experiences based on world-leading brain science. In 2010 he was awarded the George Davey Howells prize of the Royal Society of Medicine for editing the “Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science."

Education and Training

BSc (Hons): Physiology and Psychology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1974.

PhD: Psychology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 1978.

NIH Fogarty Fellow: Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, 1983-1984. 

Publications

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Grants

Deafness and Hearing Problems. Co-Principal Investigator. National Institute of Health Research UK. Apr 2012-Mar 2017.

Novel genetic variants influencing hearing. Co-Principal Investigator. Action on Hearing Loss UK. Sep 2009-Aug 2013.

The Auditory Brain. Co-Principal Investigator. Medical Research Council UK. Apr 2009-Mar 2015.