BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Current Position:
Professor of Otolaryngology
Joint Appointment, Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences
Director, Adult Cochlear Implant Program, Washington University School of Medicine
Education:
A.B., Chemistry; Wellesley College, 1956
M.A., Audiology; Case-Western Reserve University, 1960
Ph.D., Audiology; Washington University, 1976
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Audiological evaluation of adults before and after they receive a cochlear implant; fitting of hearing aids for those with severe to profound hearing loss; CT scans of the ear prior to cochlear implantation and after implantation to determine position of electrodes in the inner ear
Recent Publications:
Skinner MW, Binzer SM, Potts LG, Holden LK, Aaron RJ: Hearing rehabilitation for individuals with severe and profound hearing impairment: hearing aids,
cochlear implants, counseling and training. In Strategies for selecting and verifying hearing aid fittings, 2nd ed (M Valente). New York: Thieme, 311-344, 2002.
Skinner MW, Holden LK, Whitford LA, Plant KL, Psarros C, Holden TA: Speech recognition with the Nucleus 24 SPEAK, ACE, CIS speech coding strategies in
newly implanted adults. Ear Hear 23:207-223, 2002.
Fourakis MS, Hawks JW, Holden LK, Skinner MW, Holden TA. Effect of frequency boundary assignment on speech recognition with the Nucleus 24 ACE
speech coding strategy. JAmerAcadAud (in press).
Skinner MW, Holden TA, Whiting BR, Voie AH, Brunsden B, Neely JG, Saxon EA, Hullar TE, Finley CC. In vivo estimates of the position of Advanced Bionics’
electrode arrays in the human cochlea. AnnOtolRhinolLaryngol 116 (Suppl 197):1-24, 2007.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Margaret W. Skinner, Ph.D., CCC-A
Department of Otolaryngology
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Ave
Campus Box 8115
St. Louis, MO 63110
http://oto.wustl.edu/implant/
Phone: (314) 362-7125
TTY: (314) 362-7245
Fax: (314) 367-7346
Email address: skinnerm@wustl.edu