Faculty

John A. Ferraro

Carolyn Doughty-Margaret Kemp Professor
Chairperson, Department of Hearing and Speech
University of Kansas Medical Center

Co-Director, Intercampus Program in Communicative Disorders
Associate Dean for Research, School of Allied Health

Phone: (913) 588-5937
FAX: (913) 588-5923

jferraro@kumc.edu

B.S., 1968, Southern Colorado State College
M.S., 1970, University of Denver
Ph.D., 1972, University of Denver
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1972-1974, Northwestern University

Director, Auditory Evoked Potential Laboratory

Research

Dr. Ferraro's research interests are in the areas of auditory electrophysiology and the clinical applications of auditory evoked potenials (AEPs). He has numerous publications and presentations related to the use of the "early" AEPs in the diagnosis, assessment and management of otologic/ neuro-otologic disorders. The development and refinement of non-invasive electrocochleographic approaches to help diagnose and monitor Meniere's disease/endolymphatic hydrops has been the focus of recent research. In addition, Dr. Ferraro is the Principal Investigator for a grant from the Hall Foundation of Kansas City that is designed to improve hearing assessment in infants. This study involves measuring the auditory brainstem response from the ear canal of newborns and young infants.

Selected Publications

Articles:

Riazi, M., and Ferraro, J. (2007). Observations on mastoid versus ear canal recorded cochlear microphonic in newborns and adults. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology (in press).

Ferraro, J., and Durrant, J. (2006). Electrocochleography in the evaluation of patients with Meniere’s disease/endolymphatic hydrops. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology 17, 45-68 (invited).

Ferraro, J. (2004). Electrocochleography. In: Kent, R. (Ed.) The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. Philadelphia: The MIT Press, 461-467.

Ferraro, J. (2004). Advice to budding audiologists from an admittedly biased perspective. NSSHLA News & Notes, Winter 2004, 4-5 (invited).

Ballachanda, B., Crawford, M., Ferraro, J., Griffiths, S. (2003). Auditory Evoked Potentials – Audiologic Evaluation Working Group on Auditory Evoked Potential Measurements. Rockville, MD: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (special tutorial document).

Devaiah, A., Dawson, K., Ferraro, J., Ator, G. (2003). Utility of area curve ratio Electrocochleography in early Meniere Disease. Arch Otolaryngol. Head Neck Surg. 29, 547-551.

Fabian, C., Kimler, B., Brady, D., Mayo, M., Chang, J., Ferraro, et al. (2002). A phase II breast cancer chemoprevention trial of oral DFMO: Breast tissue, imaging, and serum and urine biomarkers. Clinical Cancer Research 8, 3105-3117.

Book Chapters:

Ferraro, J.A. (2007). Electrocochleography. In: Roesser, R., Hosfort-Dunn, H., and Valente, M. (Eds.). Audiology: Diagnosis, Treatment Strategies and Practice Management. 2nd Edition. New York: Thieme.

Ferraro, J. (2007). Electrocochleography: How I do it. In: Decker, T.N., and Ackley, S.A. (Eds.). An Essential Guide to Clinical Audiology. Oxford Press (in press).

Gochee, P., Storms, R., Ferraro, J.A., Staecker, H. (2007). Overview of treatment of hearing Loss. In: Hoy, R., and Dallos, P. (Eds.). The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference. San Diego: Elsevier (in press).