STUDENT SECTION MEETING - PRESENTATION

This meeting is FREE and OPEN TO ALL. Speaker: Dr. Lidia Lee

Topic: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (anatomy of the ear, facts and standards regarding noise exposure, and hearing conservation)

When: Wednesday, November 16, 2005; 7:30pm

Location: Britton Recital Hall
School of Music, University of Michigan (North Campus)
1100 Baits Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109

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Biography: Dr. Lidia Lee is an Associate professor at Eastern Michigan University. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at Eastern Michigan University where she is involved in teaching and research. In addition to her academic duties Dr. Lee is also a clinical audiologist in the Speech and Hearing Clinic. Having accumulated experience in hearing aid fitting, evaluation, and research of over 15 years, she has tested many college students who failed a hearing screening and who were told about their hearing loss for the first time. Dr. Lee is a strong advocate for hearing conservation and has given lectures on hearing conservation to the community, the AES Detroit chapter and to many Ypsilanti Elementary first graders in the last four semesters - "preaching" about hearing conservation.

Besides teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Audiology, her research interests are in the areas of psycho-acoustics and sound quality. Dr. Lee has done extensive research into issues of sound quality for hearing aids and audio systems.

Dr. Lee earned her doctorate degree at Indiana University - Bloomington, and her master degree at Purdue University - West Lafayette in Audiology, with an undergraduate background in Experimental Psychology.