Dr. Kevin Munro Gives Fourth Annual Judith S. Gravel Lecture at Vanderbilt University

​Kevin J. Munro, PhD, Ewing Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester, gave Vanderbilt University's fourth annual Judith S. Gravel Lecture in Pediatric Audiology on Aug 30, 2016. His lecture entitled "The Importance of Being Early: A Talk in Three Acts" took place at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, home of the university's department of hearing and speech sciences.

Dr. Munro is the research director of the Manchester Center for Audiology and Deafness. He leads the research theme on plasticity and aging there, which focuses on understanding the changes that occur over time in the auditory system due to training, deafness, development, or restoration of input to a deaf auditory system. The goal of that research is to guide fitting and management options for hearing devices. Dr. Munro's other research interests include assessment and management of hearing disorders, epidemiology of hearing loss, and auditory genetics. ​

From left to right: Anne Marie Tharpe, PhD, professor and chair of the department of hearing and speech sciences at Vanderbilt University; Mr. Bruce Taylor; Kevin J. Munro, PhD, Ewing Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester; and Fred H. Bess, PhD, professor of audiology and director of the National Center for Childhood Deafness and Family Communication at Vanderbilt University.​

Published: 2/24/2017 9:30:00 AM

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