Claire Dorey, AuD, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been awarded the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Research Dissertation Fellowship for Audiologists (F32) from the National Institutes of Health. The fellowship provides three years of funding to support her research.
Claire Dorey
The goal of the NIDCD Research Dissertation Fellowship for Audiologists (F32) program is to support comprehensive and rigorous biomedical research training leading to a research doctorate in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences.
Dorey, who recently advanced to doctoral candidacy, studies electrophysiology in both animals and humans. She is advised by Erol J. Ozmeral, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Robert Frisina, PhD, distinguished university professor in the College of Engineering and the Morsani College of Medicine.
Dorey鈥檚 research will use parallel human and animal model studies to evaluate how hearing loss in extended high frequencies may affect speech perception in noisy environments and serve as a biomarker for cognitive decline.