Type Of Business:
University
Marketing Area:
International
Expertise:
Dr. Koehnke's areas of expertise are in psychoacoustics, binaural and spatial hearing.
Major Product/SVS:
Higher Education, Research Services
Favorite Business Publication:
Ear and Hearing
Hobbies/Sports:
Gardening, Caring for her Pet, Traveling
Education Degrees:
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986); Ph.D. in Communication Science, Storrs Campus, University of Connecticut (1983); Master's Degree in Audiology, SUNY Geneseo (1977); Bachelor of Science in Communication Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1976)
Affiliations Awards:
Institutional Review Board, Seton Hall University (2002-2004); Chairwoman, Institutional Review Board, Seton Hall University (2001-2002); Chairwoman, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (2001-2002); The New Jersey Speech-Language Hearing Association; Institutional Review Board, Montclair State University; American Auditory Society; The Acoustical Society of America; American Academy of Audiology; Association for Research in Otolaryngology; Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society; Working Group on Spatial Audiometry in Real and Virtual Environments S3/WG89, American National Standards Institute; Editorial Board, 'Ear and Hearing'; Association for Research and Audio Languages
Industry:
Audiology in Academia
Date of Distinction:
10/17/2007
Work History:
Editor At-Large, Psychological Acoustics Section, 'Ear and Hearing' (1994-1997); Consultant, Audiology Praxis Test, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ; Editor, Psychological Acoustics Section, 'Ear and Hearing'
Career Achievements:
Grant Award, Investigation of Spatial Detection in Noise with Behavioral and Electrophysiologic Measurements, Deafness Research Foundation (2004-2007); Grant Award, The Effects of Aging on Binaural & Spatial Hearing, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health (2000-2004); Grant, Electrophysiologic and Behavioral Measures of Sound Localization, New Jersey Biomedical and Other High-Tech Research Capacity Building Funds (2001-2002); Grant Award, Development and Audio Metric Localization Tests, Small Business Innovative Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Subcontract with the Sensimetrics Corporation, Cambridge, MA (1997-2000); Senior Research Fellow, National Research Council, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (1998-1999); Grant Award, Binaural Performance in Children with Sensorineural Hearing Loss, National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation (1997); Frank Kraus Grant for Auditory Science
Highlight of career?:
The highlight of her career was developing the audiology program at the university, which also extended openings to students from another university once its program closed.
Charity:
Special Olympics; Lance Armstrong Foundation; Deafness Research Foundation
Number Of Years In Profession:
21
Number Of Years In Current Position:
3
What Does He/She Attribute Success To:
She attributes her success to her persistence, hard work, ethics, determination and goal-oriented nature.
How Did They Get Involved In Profession:
She became involved in her profession because she had an interest in the health profession and wanted to educate future students to become professionals in their fields.
Extended Bio Profile:
Dr. Koehnke has written various articles including ‘Effects of Reverberation on Fusion of Lead and Lag Noise Burst Stimuli,' which was published in 'Hearing Research.' She also wrote ‘Level Effects on Binaural Tasks: Interaural Time Discrimination and Intensity Discrimination,’ published in the 'American Journal of Audiology' in 2004. In addition, her article ‘Effects of Frequency Disparity on Gap Duration Discrimination in Older Listeners’ appeared in the 'The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America' and the article ‘Effects of Hearing Loss on Echo Thresholds’ appeared in 'Ear and Hearing' in 2002. Many of her other articles have been published in various journals and magazines.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
Conducting Clinical Tests for Spatial Hearing, Teaching Audiology to Graduate Students