Jocelyn Songer, Ph.D.

jocelyn_songer@meei.harvard.edu

Degrees

Ph.D. in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology. Health Sciences Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2006
Thesis: Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence: Auditory Mechanisms
Advisor: John J. Rosowski, Ph.D.

M.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, October 2001
Thesis: Clinical Ischemia Measurements Using Impedance Spectroscopy: Clinical Evaluation.
Advisor: Stevan Kun, Ph.D.

B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2000
Qualifying Project: Tissue Ischemia Measurement Using Impedance Spectroscopy:Selection of Optimal Electrodes for Clinical Studies.
Advisor: Stevan Kun, Ph.D.

Publications

Songer, J.E. and Rosowski, J.J. (2006) The effect of superior-canal opening on middle-ear input admittance and air-conducted stapes velocity in chinchilla. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 120:258-269

Rosowski, J.J., Ravicz M.E. and Songer J.E. (2006) Structures that contribute to middle-ear admittance in chinchilla. Journal of Comparative Physiology. 192(12): 1287-311

Songer, J.E. and Rosowski, J.J. (2005) The effect of superior canal dehiscence on cochlear potential in response to air-conducted stimuli in chinchilla.Hearing Research 210:53-62

Rosowski, J.J., Songer, J.E., Nakajima, H.H., Brinsko, K.M. and S.N. Merchant. (2004) Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Investigations of the Effect of Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence on Hearing Mechanisms. Otology and Neurotology 25:323-332

Songer, J.E., Luckoor, S. and S. Kun (2001) Selection of Optimal Electrodes for Clinical Impedance Spectroscopic Measurements. Journal of Clinical Engineering 26:190-199

Proceedings

Songer J.E., Wood M.L., and Rosowski J.J. An animal model of hearing loss in superior-canal dehiscence syndrome The Fourth International Symposium on Middle-Ear Mechanics in Research and Oto-Surgery. Zurich, Switzerland, In Press

Ravicz, M.E., Chien, W., Songer, J.E., Rosowski, J.J., and Merchant, S.N. Measurements of human inner-ear function with superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SCD). The Fourth International Symposium on Midd le-Ear Mechanics in Research and Oto-Surgery. Zurich, Switzerland

Songer, J.J. and Rosowski, J.J. (2006) Superior semicircular canal dehiscence: mechanisms of air-conducted hearing (eds.) Nuttal A. et al. Auditory Mechanisms: Processes and Models, World Scientific, Singapore113-114

Ravicz, M.E., Chien, W., Songer, J.E., Merchant S.N. and Rosowski, J.J. (2006) Measurements and models of inner-ear function with superior semicircular canal dehiscence (eds.) Nuttal A. et al. Auditory Mechanisms: Processes and Models, World Scientific, Singapore 506-507

Songer, J.E., Brinsko, K.M. and Rosowski, J.J. (2004) Superior semicircular canal dehiscence and bone conduction in chinchilla. (eds.) Gyo K., Wada, H., Hato, N. and Koike, T. The Pro- ceedings of the Third International Symposium on Midd le-Ear Mechanics in Research and Oto-Surgery World Scientific, Singapore 234-241

Songer, J.E. (2001) Tissue ischemia monitoring using impedance spectroscopy: Evaluation of neural networks for ischemia estimation. (eds.) Enderle, J. and Macfarlane L. Proceedings of the IEEE 27th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Storrs, CT. 15-16

Songer, J.E. and Luckoor, S. (2000) Tissue ischemia monitoring using impedance spectroscopy: Selection of optimal electrodes for clinical studies. (eds.) Enderle, J. and Macfarlane L. Proceedings of the IEEE 26th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Storrs, CT. 119- 120

Abstracts/Posters

Songer J.E. and Rosowski. J.J. (2006) Abs. #638 Characterization of the chinchilla middle-ear as a two-port using transmission matrix analysis ARO. Baltimore, MD

Ravicz M.E., Chien W., Songer J.E., and Rosowski J.J. (2006) Abs. #983 Measurements of human inner-ear function with superior semicircular canal dehiscence (SCD) ARO. Baltimore, MD

Songer J.E., Wood M.L., and Rosowski J.J. (2005) Abs. #212 Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Decreases Sensitivity to Air Conduction in Chinchillas ARO. New Orleans, LA

Songer J.E., Brinsko K.M., and Rosowski J.J. (2003) Abs. #788 Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Increases Sensitivity to Bone Conduction in Chinchillas ARO. Daytona Beach, FL

Dunn R., Songer J.E., and Kun S. (2002) Tissue pH Monitoring Using Impedance Spectroscopy. American Society for Reconstructive Surgery. Cancun, Mexico

Songer J.E. (1999) Generation nd Turnover of Olfactory Receptor Neurons from Persistently Proliferating Basal Cells in Olfactory Epithelium in Adult Hamster: Response to Zinc Sulfate - Induced Lesion. National Science Foundation Summer Research Fellowship Program. University of Massachusetts Medical School

Abstracts Submitted

Songer, J.E., Ravicz, M.E., Chien, W., Merchant, S.N., and Rosowski, J.J., (2007) Abs. #507 Modeling Superior Canal Dehiscence: Predictions of the air-bone gap in humans. ARO, Denver, CO

Experience

Teaching Assistant Department of Electrical Engineering/HST, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Sept.-Dec. 2004
Teaching, grading, lab instruction and office hours for 6.551J/HST.714J Acoustics.

Software/Biomedical Engineer VivaScan, Worcester, MA, May 2000-Junly 2001
Perform computer software development and maintenance using Visual C++ for a non-invasive glucose monitor.

National Science Foundation Intern UMMC Department of Physiology,Worcester, MA, May 1999-May 2000
Performed small animal surgery, immunohistochemistry, cryostat sectioning, and laboratory procedures. Studying neurogenesis in olfaction.

PLA (Peer Learning Assistant) WPI Department of Mathematics Worcester, MA, 1997-1999
Performed grading, lab instruction, and teaching groups of 10-20 students Calculus 3 and 4.

Lab Assistant WPI Department of Biology & Biotechnology Worcester, MA, 1996-1997
Performed solution preparation, autoclave procedure, and agar plate preparation.

Awards

2006 - Best Poster Award, The Fourth International Symposium on Middle-Ear Mechanics in Research and Oto-Surgery.

2006 - Helen Carre Peake Award: Honorable Mention

2005 - Travel Award Recipient, The Ninth Mechanics of Hearing Workshop

2004-2006 - NIH Fellowship Award

2001-2002 - Biomedical Engineering Society Merit Award

2001-2004 - NSF Fellowship Award

2001 - 2nd Place Graduate Student Paper Competition, IEEE 27th Annual Bioengineering Conference