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Vice Chair of Research Professor of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery Chief, Division of Auditory Research

Specialty:

Psychoacoustics

Education:

  • BA, Psychology, Swarthmore College, May 1990.
  • MA, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, May 1992. Thesis title: “Processing of Metaphor and Simile in Evaluative Contexts”
  • PhD, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, December 1996. Thesis title: “Three Studies of Comodulation Masking Release”

Professional Experience:

  • Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC, 2012- present
  • Associate Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC, 2007-2012
  • Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC, 2001-2007
  • Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, UNC, 1997-2001
  • Instructor, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-1997

Recent Honors:

  • Robert W. Peters Award for Research Mentoring, 2014
  • Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2010

Recent Publications:

For a list of recent publications, please visit Dr. Buss’s NCBI Database.