ksu excellence in actionDonald Gans, Ph.D.

Gans

Professor of AUD

A104 Music & Speech
Kent, OH 44242
Tel: 22672
Email: dgans@kent.edu

I spent my youth in Oakland, California and went to the University of Oregon where I received my B.S. in Biology in 1968.

I decided to pursue a clinical career in Audiology and obtained a M.A. in Audiology at the University of Colorado in 1970.

During my work there, I conducted animal physiology research for my thesis and became more interested in basic inner ear research than in setting up a clinical

practice. I therefore enrolled at Northwestern University and worked for Peter Dallos who is renowned in cochlear physiology. At the same time, I continued to take coursework in clinical Audiology and also worked in several clinical positions while earning my Ph.D. in 1974.

I began my teaching career at Kent State in 1974 and developed two general research foci: basic cochlear electrophysiology and pediatric/multihandicapped hearing assessment technique development.

I have recently refocused my interests in the area of central auditory electrophysiology involving various species of bats. This work is being conducted in Jeffrey Wenstrup’s labs at the medical school in Rootstown. I continue to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Audiology at Kent State.