LIDIA W. LEE

43516 Scenic Lane

Northville, MI 48167

(248) 305-9328

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor:
2002 -

Adjunct Professor:
2002 -

Area Manager:
1999-2001

Sonus – USA, Inc., Portland, Oregon
Sonus is the largest private-practice hearing  health care company in North America.  My responsibility included directing and achieving revenue targets, marketing, business development, cost control & staff management of two regions (MI and MO).

-Received "Excellence in Leadership Award" in 2000

-Achieved highest regional profitability for fiscal year 1999-2000

Associate Professor:
1999-2000

Department of Communicative Disorders,
 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Assistant Professor:
1994-1999

Department of Communicative Disorders,
 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Adjunct Professor:
1994-2000

GRANTS

2002

 Received Provost New Faculty Award from Eastern Michigan Univ.

1998

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1997

1996

1996

1995

SCIENTIFIC EDITORIAL AND CONSULTANTSHIPS

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Acoustical Society of America (1988 - 2000)

American Academy of Audiology (1993 - present)

American Rehabilitative Audiology (1998)

American Auditory Society (1988 - 1999)

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (1989 - present)

Illinois Academy of Audiology (1993 – 2000) VP-Education, 1997-1999

Illinois Speech and Hearing Association (1993-1999) Audiology Committee, 1996-1999

Michigan Speech, Language and Hearing Association (2001-)

CERTIFICATION

    1991

Certificate of Clinical Competence in Audiology, 
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

1994-2001

Licensed Audiologist, 
State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. 

1994-2001

Licensed Hearing Aid Dispenser, 
State of Illinois Department of Public Health.

1999 -

Licensed Hearing Aid Dispenser, 
State of Michigan Department of Public Health.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate courses 

Hearing Problems and Audiometric Methods 

Introduction to Hearing Science 

Introduction to Audiology

Graduate
 courses 

Audiometric Assessment

Hearing Instruments 

Instrumentation

Seminar in Hearing Instruments

Seminar in Audiology-Programmable Hearing Aids

Seminar in Audiology-Speech Perception of the Hearing Impaired 

Directed Individual Study-Advanced Hearing Aid Fitting 

 THESES DIRECTION 

Chair: Dolter, C (2000).  Sound quality factors in hearing instruments. M.A.

Chair: Husarik, A (2000).  Evaluating speech-understanding ability using adaptive speech-recognition threshold tests. M.A.

PUBLICATIONS (Refereed Journals) 

Kuk, F., Valente, M., Lee, L., and Picirrillo, J. (submitted).  Evidence of acclimatizationin subjects with severe-to-profound hearing loss.  Journal of American Academy of Audiology.

Lee, L.W. & Humes, L.E. (submitted).  Loudness-growth function among listeners with normal hearing. (submitted to Journal of the Acoustical Society of America).

Lee, L.W. & Geddes, E. R. (1998).  Perception of microphone noise in hearing instruments.  Journal of the acoustical Society of America, 104(6), 3364-3368.

Christensen, L.A., Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1994).  Can clinical word-recognition measures predict aided word recognition?  American Auditory Society Bulletin, 19(1), 11,16.

Humes, L.E., & Lee, L.W. (1994).  Response to `Evaluating a speech-reception threshold model for Hearing-impaired listeners'.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 588-589. 

Humes, L.E., Watson, B.U., Christersen, L.A., Cokely, C.G., Halling, D.C., & Lee, L.W. (1994).  Factors associated with individual differences in clinical measures of speech recognition among the elderly.  Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 37, 465-474.

Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1993).  Evaluating a speech-recognition threshold model for the hearing-impaired.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 93(5),2879-2885.

Lee, L.W., Humes, L.E., & Wilde, G. (1993).  Evaluation of a special high-frequency emphasis hearing aid.  Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 4(2), 91-97.

Humes, L.E., Jesteadt, W., & Lee, L.W. (1992).  Modeling the effects of sensorineural hearing loss on auditory perception.  In Cazals (Ed.).  Auditory Perception and Physiology (pp. 617-624).  Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Humes, L.E., Lee, L.W., & Jesteadt, W. (1992).  Two experiments on the spectral boundary conditions for nonlinear additivity of simultaneous masking.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 92, 2598-2606. 

Noffsinger, P.D., Dirks, D.D., & Lee, L.W. (1989).  Computerized adaptive methods for selecting hearing aids.  Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, 26, 412-413.

INVITED PUBLICATION

Lee, L.W. (2002).  Psychoacoustics.  In Geddes, E. Audio Transducers.   GedLee Publishing.

Schweitzer, C. &n Lee, L.W. (in press).  Multi-microphones and spatial reconstruction of cues.  Digital Hearing Aid Handbook, M. Chasin (ed.)

Lee, L.W., Lau, C., & Sullivan, D. (1988).  The advantages of a low compression threshold in directional microphones.  Hearing Review, 5(8), 30-33.

Keidser, G., Katsch, R., Dillion, H., Byrne, D., Seymour, J., Banerjee, S. & Lee, L.W. (1996).  Evaluation of fitting rationales for non-linear hearing aids.  National acoustic Laboratories Research and Development, Annual Report 1995-1996.

INVITED PRESENTATION

Lee, L.W. (2002).  Noise-Induced Hearing Loss and Hearing Safety.  Lecture sponsored by Audio Engineering Society - Detroit Chapter.

Lee, L.W. (2000).  Digital Technology.  Seminar sponsored by Siemens, Lansing, MI.

Lee, L.W. (1998).  Hearing Aids.  Workshop offered by the Institute on Deafness, Certificate Training in Deafness, DeKalb, IL.

Lee, L.W. (1997).  Hearing Aid Technologies.  Workshop offered by the Institute on Deafness on “Certificate Trainingin Deafness”.

Lee, L.W. (1996).  Issues in Hearing Aids Fitting and Evaluations.  Lecture series presented at Knowles Electronics, Itasca, Illinois.

Lee, L.W. (1996).  Speech Perception Among the Hearing-Impaired Elderly.  Lecture presented at the Tenth Anniversary Lecture and Seminar Series, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, and City University of Hong Kong.  Hong Kong.

Lee, L.W. (1995).  Hearing Aids and Other Assistive Listening Devices: Who Needs Them?  Conference sponsored by the Institute of Deafness, DeKalb, IL.

PRESENTATIONS (Peer-Reviewed)     

Lee, L. W. (1998).  Microphone Technology in Modern Hearing Aids .  Paper presented at the 10^th  annual American Academy of Audiology Convention, Los Angeles, California. 

Lee, L. W. & Geddes, E.R. (1997).   Hearing Aid Noise: How Low is Low?  Paper presented at the 9^th Annual American Academy of Audiology Convention, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Lee, L. W. & Geddes, E.R. (1996).  Evaluation of the Perception of Input-Referred Noise in Hearing Instruments.  Paper presented at the 132^nd Acoustical Society of America meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Lee, L.W.  & Bishop, T. (1996).  Acceptance and Satisfaction of Programmable Hearing Instruments Among Teenagers.  Poster presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Seattle, Washington.

Lee, L.W. (1995).  Are the most-comfortable-loudness level measures the same between ears for individuals with symmetrical sensorineural hearing loss?  Poster presented at the Advancing Human Communication: An interdisciplinary Forum on Hearing Aid Research and Development, Bethesda, Maryland.

Lee, L.W., & Drost, C.A. (1995).  Most-comfortable-loudness measures among binaurally-fitted versus monaurally-fitted individuals with symmetrical hearing loss.  Paper presented at the International Hearing Aid Conference III, Iowa City, Iowa.

Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1995).  Loudness functions in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners.  Paper presented at the 129th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Washington, DC.

Christensen, L.A., Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1994).  Can clinical word-recognition measures predict aided word-recognition.  Poster presented at the 20th annual meeting of American Auditory Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Lee, L.W., Christensen, L.A., & Humes, L.E. (1994).  Auditory and cognitive factors associated with individual speech recognition differences among the elderly.  Poster presented at the 12th meeting of the International Congress of Audiology, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Lee, L.W. (1994).  Loudness growth of complex stimuli in hearing-impaired listeners.  Paper presented at the American speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1994).  Loudness growth of complex stimuli in normal-hearing listeners.  Paper presented at the 126th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, Colorado. 

Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1992).  Factors for speech-recognition ability of the hearing-impaired elderly.  Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, San Antonio, Texas.

Humes, L.E., Lee, L.W., Christopherson, L.A., Cokely, C.G., & Halling, D. (1992).  Peripheral contributions to the speech-understanding problems of the hearing-impaired elderly.  Paper presented at Aging: The Quality of Life Conference,Washington, D.C.

Cokely, C.G., Lee, L.W., Christopherson, L.A., & Humes, L.E. (1991).  Evaluating REUR and REAR Corrections.  Paper presented at the Student Forum at the 3rd annual American Academy of Audiology Convention, Denver, Colarado.

Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1991).  Evaluating a speech-reception threshold model for hearing-impaired listeners.  Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia. 

Lee, L.W., & Humes, L.E. (1991).  Boundaries for nonlinear additivity of masking. Paper presented at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Humes, L.E., & Lee, L.W. (1990).  Rules for the combination of excitation patterns. Paper presented at the 120th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California.