About Us

I am a licensed audiologist with a graduate degree/Master of Science from the University of Pittsburgh. My master’s thesis was completed at the Oakland VA hospital in Pittsburgh. It involved the ability of normal hearing middle aged individuals to use duration cues in detecting faint sounds. For instance, normal hearing young adults are able to use the accumulation of energy as a sound’s duration is lengthened up to about 200-300msec . My results indicated that borderline normal hearers often show reduction in this temporal integration of sound.

Undergraduate work was completed in the area of Speech/Hearing Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Clinical practicum during this period was completed at major university based hospitals and ancillary sites.

Applied research has played a major role in the way that I have conducted clinical affairs during the past 30 years. Employment history includes clinical audiologist at Eye & Ear Hospital and Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.. I have been involved in private practice most of my career, in addition to providing diagnostic hearing and balance testing services for a local otolaryngology group.

Other interests include playing saxophone with big band/jazz-rock groups, and bird watching/recording using a co-developed hand held device called the Long Eared Mini. These hobbies have naturally led to more specialized audiologic offerings in the form of Ornithological Based Hearing Aid Evaluations and Musician Audiologic Assessment/Counseling.