Richard Salvi, Ph.D.

Dr. Richard Salvi, Professor in Communicative Disorders & Sciences and Director of the Hearing Research Lab at the University of Buffalo, received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology in 1975 from Syracuse University and later completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Auditory Physiology at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse.  Dr. Salvi has more than 270 publications dealing with the anatomical, physiological and perceptual deficits associated with noise-induced hearing loss, ototoxicity, and age-related hearing loss.  His most recent work has focused on the identification of cell death signaling pathways following exposure to ototoxic drugs and acoustic overstimulation and identification of compound that can enhance hair cell survival and reduce the risk of hearing loss.  He was one of the first to use brain imaging techniques to investigate the neural substrate of tinnitus and in identifying regions of the brain involved in tinnitus.  April 22, 2008tual changes that arise from the selective destruction of inner hair cells. 

Center for Hearing and Deafness, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York: http://www.wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/chd