Bruce Gantz, M.D., professor and chair, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
     Dr. Gantz is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Medicine, and completed a residency and fellowship in otolaryngology at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and a fellowship at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Dr. Gantz is board certified in otolaryngology. His areas of clinical expertise include neurotology, neurotologic skull base surgery, tumors of the skull base, cochlear implants and otology.. In addition to his clinical care and administrative duties, Dr. Gantz also serves as director of the Otology/Neurotology/Skull Base Surgery Service and as director of the Cochlear Implant Service. The Iowa Cochlear Implant Cllinical Research Center was established in 1980 and leads efforts to evaluate the latest cochlear implant technology. In July 2001, the center received a $9.8 million, five-year competitive grant renewal from The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communications Disorders (NICDC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, a unit within University of Iowa Health Care, ranks as one of the nation's leading departments of otolaryngology.

Richard Hurtig, Ph.D., professor and chair, Speech Pathology and Audiology
     Dr. Hurtig is a graduate of Columbia University, where he earned the Ph.D. and M. Phil. in psychology. His research interests are uncovering general invariants of perceptual and cognitive processes involved in human communication. The Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, a unit within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is ranked the top department in the field nationwide.

Ruth A. Bentler, Ph.D., associate professor of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Bentler is a graduate of the University of Iowa with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Speech Pathology and Audiology. Her research interest is hearing aid technology with emphasis in evaluation of device effectiveness and user satisfaction.

Carolyn J. Brown, Ph.D., associate professor of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Brown is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in Speech Pathology and Audiology. Her research interest is auditory physiology with emphasis in electrically evoked potentials and cochlear implants.

Eileen Finnegan, Ph.D., assistant professor of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Finnegan is a graduate of the University of Iowa with an M.A. and Ph.D. in Speech Pathology and Audiology. Her research is in the area of laryngeal neurophysiology, specifically, studying the role of laryngeal/respiratory reflexes during phonation.

Kate Gfeller, Ph.D., professor of music and speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Gfeller is a graduate of Michigan State University with a Ph.D. in Music Education/Therapy. She is director of the University of Iowa Music Therapy Program and is a member of the Iowa Cochlear Implant Team at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. She studies musical perception and enjoyment in deafened adults with cochlear implants.

Harry Hoffman, M.D., associate professor of otolaryngology-head & neck surgery, Director of Head & Neck oncology; Director of the Voice Clinic
     Dr. Hoffman is a graduate of the University of California College of Medicine in San Diego, Calif. He completed fellowships in head and neck plastic and reconstuctive surgery and in surgery/ head and neck surgery at University of Michigan Affiliated Hospitals. His areas of clinical expertise include head and neck oncology, head and neck cander and disorders of the voice.

Michael Karnell, Ph.D., associate professor of otolaryngology-head & neck surgery and of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Karnell is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in Speech Pathology and Audiology. He directs the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Speech and Swallowing Service. his areas of clinical expertise include voice disorders, swallowing disorders, head and neck cancer, and cleft palate.

Jay Rubinstein, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of otolaryngology and biomedical engineering
     Dr. Rubinstein is a graduate of the University of Washington College of Medicine . He completed an internship in surgery at Beth Israel Hospital/Harvard Surgical Services in Boston, Massachusetts, a residency at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and a fellowship in otology/neurotology at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. His areas of clinical expertise include neurotology, cochlear implants, neurotologic skull base surgery and otology. He is a member of the Iowa Cochlear Implant Team at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

Richard Smith, M.D., professor of otolaryngology-head & neck surgery
     Dr. Smith is a graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and completed two fellowships in the United Kingdom, one in genetics at the Institute of Hearing Research on Nottingham and one in pediatric otolaryngology at the Hospital for Sick Children in London. He serves as vice-chair of the Department of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and directs the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology as the Sterba Hearing Research Professor. His areas of clinical expertise include airway reconstruction, hemangioma/lymphangioma, subglottic stenosis/gastroesophageal reflux, congenital ear deformity and hereditary deafness. Dr. Smith also serves as director of the University of Iowa Molecular Otolaryngology Research Laboratories, which offer genetic testing at the DNA level for several types of inherited deafness, one of the few laboratories in the nation to make this service available to interested families.

Ingo R. Titze, Ph.D., professor of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Titze is a graduate of Brigham Young University where he earned the Ph.D. in Physics. He also holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering. He is director of the National Center for Voice and Speech. A fascination with the human voice led him to apply his scientific expertise as a physicist and engineer to research issues related to the voice and vocal music. Dr. Titze has studied such topics as biomechanics of human tissues, voice disorders, professional voice production, musical acoustics and the computer simulation of voice. In addition to his scientific endeavors, Dr. Titze continues to be active as a singer, giving several recitals a year in the United States and Europe, at times joined by Pavarobotti, the singing robot he designed that uses sophisticated computer simulation of the human voice.

J. Bruce Tomblin, Ph.D., professor of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Tomblin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he earned the Ph.D. in Communicative Disorders. His research is generally concerned with developmental language impairment. Specific topics include: course of spoken language impairment, validity of different diagnostic standards for language impairment, association of reading and written language disorder with spoken language impairment, association of child psychopathologies and behavior disorders with earlier and concurrent spoken language impairment, and genetic factors contributing to a liability for spoken language and reading impairment.

Christopher W. Turner, Ph.D., professor of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Turner is a graduate of the University of Minnesota where he earned the Ph.D. in Hearing Science. His research interest is auditory perception of speech and other sounds by both normal and hearing-impaired patients.

Richard Tyler, Ph.D., professor and Director of Audiology (otolaryngology-head & neck surgery) and professor of speech pathology and audiology
     Dr. Tyler is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a Ph.D. in Speech Pathology and Audiology. His areas of clinical expertise include tinnitus, cochlear implants and hearing aids.