Associate Editors

Jean-Marie Aran, DSc in Physiology (1973) is also Engineer in Electronics from University of Bordeaux (1963). He is Director of Research at INSERM (French national institute for health and medical research). He worked in the Laboratory of Experimental Audiology in Bordeaux with Michel Portmann, and directed this lab - as an Inserm research unit - from 1978 to 1993. He is presently working with Didier Dulon on the cellular and molecular biology of hearing. He stayed also 2 years at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute at the University of Michigan as a research fellow (1964) and invited professor (1983) where he learnt with J. E. Hawkins and Merle Lawrence, the basics of auditory physiology, applied to the study of ototoxic drugs and animal models of endolymphatic hydrops. His major interests have been in the electrophysiology of the auditory system, with the development of Electrocochleography (EcochG), and in experimental studies of cochlear physiopathologies. He is presently working on the function of the medial olivocochlear system and, within the frame of French and European applied research projects, on the potential effects of exposure of the ear to mobile telephone radio frequencies. He has been much involved, in close relation with Hallowell Davis, in the development of Evoked Response Audiometry, e.g. as treasurer of the International Electric Response Audiometry Study Group and editor of the IERASG Newsletter (1973-1982). He was also, from 1983 to 2001, Editor-in-Chief of Audiology, one of the funding journals of IJA. For his achievements in these different fields he was awarded prestigious international prizes such as the CRS Amplifon International Prize in Audiology (Milan, 1981), the Collegium ORLAS Shambaugh Prize in Otology (Munich, 1986) and the ISA Aram Glorig Award (The Hague, 2000). He was also awarded the title of Doctor Honauris Causa of the Chinese PLA General Hospital (Beijing, 1988).

jean-marie.aran@bordeaux.inserm.fr

John Durrant, Ph.D.
Professor in the Departments of Communication Science and Disorders, Otolaryngology, and Rehabilitation Science and Technology. Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the American Academy of Audiology. Trained at the Ohio University (bachelor and master’s degrees in speech and hearing) and Northwestern University (doctorate and post-doc in audiology and physiological acoustics). Principle areas of interest are audiology, electrophysiology, auditory evoked responses (electrical—peripheral and central, and otoacoustic) and their clinical applications, and audio-vestibular monitoring of ototoxicity. Over his career, he has served as principal and co-investigator on numerous research projects, including various externally funded and other research projects, has mentored numerous graduate students, residents and post-graduate or visiting fellows, and has substantial experience in technology-transfer research and development. Active participant in international collaborations.

durrant@csd.pitt.edu

Brian C.J. Moore received his B.A. in Natural Sciences in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics in 1971, both from the University of Cambridge, England. He is currently Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley and was a van Houten Fellow at the Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His research interests are: the perception of sound; mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual; design and specification of high-fidelity sound-reproducing equipment. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (U.K.), the British Society of Audiology, The American Speech-Language Hearing Association, The American Auditory Society, The Acoustical Society of Japan, the Audio Engineering Society, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Audiology. He is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK). He has written or edited 12 books and over 370 scientific papers and book chapters. In 2003 he was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in physiological and psychological acoustics. He has been selected to receive the first "International Award in Hearing" from the American Academy of Audiology. He is wine steward of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

bcjm@cam.ac.uk

Dr. Thais Morata is an audiologist who has been working in the area of hearing loss prevention since 1982. A native of Brazil, she earned degrees in speech pathology and audiology and communication disorders from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (B.S.; M.S.) and the University of Cincinnati (Ph.D.). She got involved in occupational hearing conservation when consulting for the Union of Chemical Workers in São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Morata has worked at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life as a Guest Researcher from 1997 to 1998, and currently is back at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, in Cincinnati, OH, USA. Her main area of interest is the prevention of auditory effects of combined exposure to noise and chemicals in the workplace. She collaborates with several international occupational health institutes in this area. She has taught audiology in Brazil and is currently teaches some graduate courses at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, in Curitiba, Brazil.

tcm2@cdc.gov

William Noble, Ph.D., Born: Glasgow, Scotland; educated to end of high school there. University education: Manchester University; PhD under supervision of Gordon Atherley (Occupational Health) and Florence McNeil (Psychology). Appointed to Lectureship (Assistant Professorship) at University of New England, Australia; promoted through intermediate grades to full Professorship. Currently Head of School of Psychology at New England.
Institutional Affiliation: University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia.

wnoble@metz.une.edu.au

Dafydd Stephens, FRCP,
Dafydd Stephens’s interest in Audiology was first stimulated by his BSc in physiology with William Burns (Noise and Man) in the University of London. It was fostered during a few months spent in Iowa City with Scott Reger and Ron Hinchcliffe. After qualifying in Medicine and internships in ENT, General Medicine and Psychiatry, he joined the Medical Research Council’s Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge with Donald Broadbent, working partly there and partly at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington with Douglas Robinson on aspects of psychoacoustics. He then moved to Southampton as a Clinical Research Fellow with Ross Coles. There he worked mainly on diagnostic tests in Clinical Audiology, before taking up the newly established Consultant post in Audiological Medicine at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. He developed the Audiological rehabilitation service in the hospital and also an interest in tinnitus, before returning to Wales in 1986. There he took up a new post as director of the Welsh Hearing Institute at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He has maintained research interests in Audiological Rehabilitation, Tinnitus and Genetic Hearing Impairment, as well as in the History of Medicine. He was editor of the “British Journal of Audiology” from 1986-1990, and has been Associate editor of “Clinical Otolaryngology” and “Audiological Medicine”.

stephensd@cf.ac.uk