Dr. Paul R. Kileny, Ph.D.

Professor of Otolaryngology
Director, Audiology and Electrophysiology
University of Michigan Health System

Dr. Kileny joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School in 1985. He received his Doctorate in Audiology with an emphasis in neurophysiology from the University of Iowa in 1978. He holds undergraduate and a Master’s degree in audiology and Speech-Language Pathology from the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University in Israel.

At the University of Michigan he co-founded the Cochlear Implant Program, and established Newborn Hearing Screening and Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring Programs. He has extensive experience with and interest in the relationship between auditory and speech-language development in infants and children and neurophysiologic events, including middle-latency and cognitive auditory evoked potentials. His early work led him to develop new neurodiagnostic techniques for infants and children with cochlear implants, and conducted one of the first event-related potential studies in children with cochlear implants that demonstrated the relationship between p300 amplitude and latency and auditory perception. More recently, he developed a technique based on ABR that can be used to provide information on auditory temporal processing at a very young age. He is one of the firs audiologists recognized as a Board-Certified Specialist in Intraoperative Monitoring by the American Audiology Board of Intraoperative Monitoring. Dr. Kileny is the recipient of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Certificate of Honor (2001), the American Academy of Audiology Career Award in Hearing (2002), the Presidential Citation of the American Otological Society (2006), and The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s highest award, Honors of the Association (2011).