The Healthcare Professional’s Guide to Human Research

About The Author

Jerry Cranford, PhD, is currently Professor of Audiology and Hearing Science in the Department of Communication Disorders at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Cranford did his undergraduate training, majoring in Psychology, at Wichita State University. In 1969, he was awarded a Ph.D.degaree in Experiment Psychology from Vanderbilt University. During the fourth year of his training at Vandy, he took a neuroanatomy course in the Vanderbilt medical school and became totally hooked on brain sciences. This triggered an instense 5- year long postdoctural training experience which included two years as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neurosciences at Duke University followed by an additional three years of training at the Center for Neural Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. At age 40, Dr. Cranford underwent a “midlife crises” and went back to school at the LSUHSC in New Orleans to obtain training and clinical certification in Clinical Audiology. From 1985 to the present, Dr. Cranford has been on the faculty of speech and hearing programs (first at Wichita State, then East Carolina University, and now back at the LSUHSC in New Orleans). Prior to 1985, Dr. Cranford’s primary duties involved training ENT residents and performing NIH funded animal model studies on central auditory nervous system function. Following 1985, he switched to studying electrophysiological and behavioral effects of central auditory disorders in human patients and training clinical graduate students in speech and hearing.