Carolyn J. Brown, PhD

Professor
Carolyn Brown is an audiologist who graduated with her MA in Audiology from the University of Washington and then went on to earn her PhD from the University of Iowa in 1989. Her dissertation was a study that described a method that could be used to record electrically evoked auditory potentials from an intracochlear electrode in Ineraid cochlear implant users. That work led to the development of cochlear implants with neural telemetry capabilities. After graduation and a brief stint at the Arizona State University, she returned to Iowa to re-join the Iowa Cochlear Implant team and has stayed there ever since. Today, she is a professor at the University of Iowa with joint appointments in Communication Sciences and Disorders and in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Her research focuses on exploring novel ways in which electrophysiologic measures of auditory function can inform clinical practice and includes measures of the neural response from the auditory periphery to the cortex.