National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council (NDCD) Members

Each member serves for a four-year period. The last year of each member's term is listed after the member's name.

Chairperson
BATTEY, James F., Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Director
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Bethesda, MD

BATTAT, Brenda, M.A., MCSP (2013)
Executive Director
Hearing Loss Association of America
Bethesda, MD

BROWNELL, William, Ph.D. (2013)
Jake and Nina Kamin Chair
Bobby R. Alford Department of
Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

CASSELBRANT, Margaretha L., M.D., Ph.D. (2010)
Eberly Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Director, Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA

CRUICKSHANKS, Karen J., Ph.D. (2011)
Professor
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual
Sciences
University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI

DAVILA, Robert R., Ph.D. (2012)
President
Galludet University
Washington, DC

ELLENSON, Richard, MBA (2013)
Chief Vision Officer
DynaVox
New York, NY 10003

FENG, Albert S., Ph.D., MS (2011)
Professor
Department of Molecular and
Integrative Physiology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL

FRIDERICI, Karen, Ph.D. (2013)
Professor
Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

GREER, Charles A., Ph.D. (2011)
Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Neurosurgery
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

HORNER, Jennifer, J.D., Ph.D. (2010)
Associate Dean for Research and
Graduate Studies
College of Health and Human Services
Ohio University
Athens, OH

NIPARKO, John, M.D., (2013)
George T. Nager Professor
Director, Division of Otology, Neurotology, &
Skull Base Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology – Head &
Neck Surgery
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD

RAMIG, Lorraine, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (2010)
Professor
Department of Speech Language Hearing Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder, CO

RAUCH, Steven D., M.D. (2010)
Professor Otolaryngology
Department of Otology & Laryngology
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Boston, MA

REED, Randall, Ph.D. (2011)
Director, Center for Sensory Biology
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
and Genetics
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Otolaryngology - HNS
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

RICE, Mabel L., Ph.D. (2012)
Fred and Virginia Merrill Distinguished
Professor of Advanced Studies
Department of Speech-Language-Hearing
The Merrill Advance Studies Center
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS

SMITH, Anne, Ph.D. (2012)
Distinguished Professor
Department of Speech, Language
and Hearing Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

YOST, William A., Ph.D. (2011)
Chair of Speech and Hearing Science
Department of Speech and Hearing Science
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

Ex-Officio Members
BECK, Lucille B., Ph.D.
Director
Audiology & Speech Pathology Service (117A)
Department of Veterans Affairs
Washington, DC

DAVIS, Rickie, Ph.D.
Team Leader
Hearing Loss Prevention Team
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cincinnati, OH

HOFFER, Michael E., M.D.
Co-Director
Department of Defense Spatial Orientation Center
Department of Otolaryngology
Naval Medical Center
San Diego, CA

SEBELIUS, Kathleen
Secretary
Department of Health and
Human Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
Washington, DC

KINGTON, Raynard S., M.D., Ph.D.
Acting Director
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD 20892

Executive Secretary
JORDAN, Craig A., Ph.D.
Director
Division of Extramural Research, NIDCD
Bethesda, MD

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