Elizabeth Olson

Treasurer/Secretary of The Association for Research in Otolaryngology 2014-2017 (elected position)

Professional Organizations:

• Member of Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • Member of Publication Committee of ARO 2010-2012.
  • Member of Finance and Investment Committee of ARO 2014 –
• Member of Acoustical Society of America

Editorial:

• Co-editor of special issue of Journal Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Nov. 2006
• Associate Editor, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 2007 – 2010
• Co-editor of Proceedings of 11th International Mechanics of Hearing Workshop, 2011
• Associate Editor, Hearing Research, 2018 -

Consultative:

• Regular member of NIH AUD grant review study-section, 2002 – 2006
• Regularly review grant applications for: National Institutes of Health, National Science
  Foundation, DOD, national and international grant organizations in Europe and Canada.

Organizational:

• Primary organizer, Eastern Auditory Retreat 2006 & 2010
• Co-organizer, Eastern Auditory Retreat, 2003 - 2012
• Co-Chair of organizing committee,  Mechanics of Hearing Conference July, 2011
• Member of organizing committee,  Mechanics of Hearing Conference 2014 and 2017

Henry A. Boorse Award in Physics - Barnard College, 1980

Phi Beta Kappa - May, 1981

Magna Cum Laude - Barnard College. May, 1981

Individual National Research Service Award 1/89 - 12/91

Visiting Professorship for Women Award (NSF) 9/93 - 8/95

Honorary President, Sino American Hospital, Song Yuan, China, 2005 – 2007

Present Grants:

• NIH NIDCD R01 Grant, 5 year award beginning 2016
  Role: PI, Title “Auditory mechanics and the cochlear amplifier”
  Diversity supplement to above R01 grant for CUMC “Dean’s Research Fellow,” April 2018
• NIH NIDCD R01 Grant, 5 year award beginning 2015
  Role: Co-I, Title “Intracochlear delivery of therapeutic agents across round window membrane via microneedle array”

   

Olson ES, Duifhuis D and Steel CR 2012 “von Bekesy and cochlear mechanics” Hearing Research (in press). Mechanics of hearing: Transmission of sound through the middle ear, the basis for frequency tuning in the inner ear, in particular the operation of the cochlear amplifier. Cochlear implants.

Huang S, Dong W and Olson ES 2012 “Subharmonic distortion in ear canal pressure and intracochlear pressure and motion.” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn. (on line first)

Dong W, Decraemer, WF and Olson ES 2012 “Reverse transmission along the ossicular chain in gerbil.” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn. (on line first)

Shera CS and Olson ES (editors) 2011 What Fire is in Mine Ears: Progress in Auditory Biomechanics Proceedings of the 11th International Mechanics of Hearing Workshop. Published by American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, Melville, NY USA.

Shera CS, Olson ES and Guinan JJ 2011 “On cochlear impedances and the miscomputation of power gain.” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn.12: 671– 676.

Huang S and Olson ES 2011 “Auditory nerve excitation via a non-traveling-wave mode of basilar membrane motion.” J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryn. 12: 559 – 575.

Eze, N. and Olson, E.S. 2011 “Basilar membrane velocity in a cochlea with modified organ of Corti.” Biophysical J. 100: 858-867.

de La Rochefoucauld, O., Kachroo, P. and Olson, E.S. 2010 "Ossicular motion related to middle ear transmission delay in gerbil." Hearing Research 270: 158-172.

Dong, W. and Olson, E.S. 2010 "Local cochlear damage reduces local nonlinearities and decreases generator-type cochlear emissions while increasing reflector-type emissions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127: 1422-1431.

de La Rochefoucauld, O. and Olson, E.S. 2010 "A sum of simple and complex motions on the eardrum and manubrium in gerbil." Hearing Research 263: 9-15.

Nakajima, H.H., Dong, W., Olson, E.S., Merchant, S.N., Ravicz, M.E. and Rosowski, J.J. 2010 “Evaluation of round window stimulation using the floating mass transducer by intracochlear sound pressure measurements in temporal bones.“ Otology and Neurotology 31: 506-511.