Lisa L. Hunter, PhD, FAAA

Scientific Director of Research, Division of Audiology
Professor, UC Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
UC Department of Communication Disorders

lisa.hunter@cchmc.org

About

Biography

I am the scientific director for Audiology in the Communication Sciences Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and a professor of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Cincinnati.

I have more than 25 years of pediatric clinical, research, and teaching experience. A graduate and former faculty member of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Minnesota, I developed and directed the AuD program at the University of Utah. I was a visiting scientist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and have volunteered in Kenya on audiologic missions at a school for the deaf.

I have authored more than 90 published articles, chapters, and books in pediatric audiology and frequently lecture nationally and internationally, as well as serve on expert panels and task forces. I am currently conducting studies on a range of pediatric hearing loss, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). I also serve as chair of the Accreditation Commission for Audiology Education (ACAE).

MA: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1986,

PhD: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1993,

Fellowship: American Academy of Audiology, 1993,

Interests

Diagnostic pediatric audiology; congenital hearing loss; student precepting

Interests

Middle ear physiology; newborn hearing screening; childhood hearing loss diagnosis; intervention trials

Research Areas

Publications

Selected

Peripheral Auditory Involvement in Childhood Listening Difficulty. Hunter, LL; Blankenship, CM; Lin, L; Sloat, NT; Perdew, A; Stewart, H; Moore, DR. Ear and Hearing. 2021; 42(1):29-41.

Selected

Extended high frequency hearing and speech perception implications in adults and children. Hunter, LL; Monson, BB; Moore, DR; Dhar, S; Wright, BA; Munro, KJ; Zadeh, LM; Blankenship, CM; Stiepan, SM; Siegel, JH. Hearing Research. 2020; 397:107922.

Selected

Protocol for Rapid, Accurate, Electrophysiologic, Auditory Assessment of Infants and Toddlers. Sininger, YS; Hunter, LL; Roush, PA; Windmill, S; Hayes, D; Uhler, KM. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 2020; 31(6):455-468.

Selected

High frequency transient-evoked otoacoustic emission measurements using chirp and click stimuli. Keefe, DH; Feeney, MP; Hunter, LL; Fitzpatrick, DF; Blankenship, CM; Garinis, AC; Putterman, DB; Wróblewski, M. Hearing Research. 2019; 371:117-139.

Selected

Cochlear Microphonic and Summating Potential Responses from Click-Evoked Auditory Brain Stem Responses in High-Risk and Normal Infants. Hunter, LL; Blankenship, CM; Gunter, RG; Keefe, DH; Feeney, MP; Brown, DK; Baroch, K. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 2018; 29(5):427-442.

Selected

Optimizing Clinical Interpretation of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Infants. Blankenship, CM; Hunter, LL; Keefe, DH; Feeney, MP; Brown, DK; Mccune, A; Fitzpatrick, DF; Lin, L. Ear and Hearing. 2018; 39(6):1075-1090.

Selected

Longitudinal Development of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Infants With Normal Hearing. Hunter, LL; Blankenship, CM; Keefe, DH; Feeney, MP; Brown, DK; Mccune, A; Fitzpatrick, DF; Lin, L. Ear and Hearing. 2018; 39(5):863-873.

Selected

Evaluation of Speed and Accuracy of Next-Generation Auditory Steady State Response and Auditory Brainstem Response Audiometry in Children With Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss. Sininger, YS; Hunter, LL; Hayes, D; Roush, PA; Uhler, KM. Ear and Hearing. 2018; 39(6):1207-1223.

Reduced neural speech tracking in adolescents with listening difficulty. Kojima, K; Liu, C; Ehrlich, S; Dillon, H; Blankenship, C; Motlagh Zadeh, L; Vannest, J; Hunter, L; Nagarajan, S; Moore, DR. Clinical Neurophysiology. 2026; 183:2111502.