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School of Health Sciences
University of the Pacific
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Sacramento, CA 95817

Audiology Adjunct Faculty

Suzanne Galal, PharmD sgalal@pacific.edu PharmD, Northeastern University, 2008 Residency in Education, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates/Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health At Pacific Since: 2009
Courses: AUDI 357 - Pharmacology	Research Interests: Diabetes Science of teaching and learning Smoking cessation
Melanie Gilbert, AuD mgilbert@pacific.edu BA, Lewis & Clark College, 2004 AuD, Vanderbilt University, 2012 Audiology Externship, UCLA, 2011-2012  Member, American Auditory Society  Fellow, American Academy of Audiology Member, California Academy of Audiology At Pacific Since: 2016
Courses: AUDI 321 - Auditory Implants	Research Interests: Cochlear implants: music perception, objective measures, signal processing
Anga Lao, AuD, FAAA alao@pacific.edu MA, University of Pittsburgh AuD, University of Pittsburgh Fellow, American Academy of Audiology Member, American Auditory Society Member, California Academy of Audiology At Pacific Since: 2017
Courses: AUDI 311 - Pediatric Audiology	Research Interests: Amplification
Heidi Makeig, MS, CCC-A hmakeig@pacific.edu BS, Ohio University MS, Vanderbilt University At Pacific Since: 2016
Courses: AUDI 385 A - Audiology Practicum I AUDI 385 B - Audiology Practicum II	Research Interests: Bilingual low income pediatric populations Hearing health care access in remote and rural areas
Peter Marincovich, PhD pmarincovich@pacific.edu BA in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of California, Santa Barbara MA in Communication Disorders, Louisiana State University PhD in Audiology, The University of Memphis At Pacific Since: 2019
Courses: AUDI 355 - Practice Management	Research Interests: How much of the speech recognition performance of persons listening to speech via hearing devices is explained by a frequency importance weighted combination of band width and signal to noise ratio, that is the articulation index
Lauren L. Pasquesi, AuD, FAAA lpasquesi@pacific.edu BA in Speech and Hearing Science, The Ohio State University, 2011 AuD, Northwestern University, 2014 Fellow, American Academy of Audiology At Pacific Since: 2017
Courses: AUDI 331 - Vestibular Assessment I AUDI 367 - Vestibular Assessment II	Research Interests: Vestibular
Jayaganesh (Ganesh) Swaminathan, PhD jswaminathan@pacific.edu BE in Electrical Engineering, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, 2002 MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 2004 PhD in Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, 2010 Post Doctoral Training in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-12 At Pacific Since: 2019
Courses: AUDI 337 - Speech-Language Pathology for Audiology AUDI 315 - Amplification I AUDI 317 - Amplification II	Research Interests: Automatic speech recognition systems Auditory electrophysiology Psychophysics Physiology based modeling of auditory nerve responses
Teresa Testa, AuD, CCC-A, FAAA ttesta@pacific.edu BA, University of Notre Dame MA, New York University MS, Gallaudet University AuD, Gallaudet University Externship, Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California Fellow, American Academy of Audiology Clinical Certificate of Competency, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association At Pacific Since: 2016
Courses: AUDI 385A - Practicum I AUDI 385B - Practicum II AUDI 339 - Deaf Culture and Communication Systems	Research Interests: Auditory processing training