Now Hear This: Svirsky Elected Fellow of Acoustical Society
INDIANAPOLIS - Mario A. Svirsky, Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology-
head and neck surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has
been elected a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. The fellowship
acknowledges his contributions to understanding speech perception in children
and adults with cochlear implants.
Dr. Svirsky, also an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering, has
published extensively on speech perception, speech production and language
development, with a particular focus on cochlear implants. He currently
serves as co-chair for the Conference of Implantable Auditory Prostheses
and as editor-in-chief of the journal Ear and Hearing.
He has been active in various professional societies including the American
Auditory Society and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
and was recently named a member of Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum
Amicitiae Sacrum, an international academy of otorhinolaryngology
He received his doctorate in biomedical engineering from Tulane University
in 1989 and has been a faculty member at the IU School of Medicine since
1995.
The Acoustical Society of America, consisting of about 7,000 members, was founded in 1929.
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