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Amyn M. Amlani, PhD

Amyn M. Amlani, PhD

  • Professor & Department Chair, Communication Sciences & Disorders
405-271-4002 ext. 14002

Amyn-Amlani@ou.edu

Education:

  • Certificate, Health Economics and Outcomes Research, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 2020
  • PhD, Audiology/Psychoacoustics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 2003
  • MS, Audiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1995
  • BA, Communication Disorders, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 1993
     

Clinical/Research Interests:

  • Hearing Healthcare Access & Adoption
  • Health Economics & Policy
  • Workforce Sustainability
  • Structural Determinants of Health
  • Audiology – evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and management of individuals across the lifespan experiencing difficulty with hearing, balance, and tinnitus.

Funding:

  • National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH-NIDCD), RoboHear™ Device: Advanced Haptic Technology That Allows Deaf to Understand Speech, STTR Phase I, PA-18-573, Omnibus Solicitation of NIH, CDC, and FDA for Small Business Innovation Research Grant Applications (Parent SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Allowed). Investigator, 2018-2019, Subaward $70,020.
  • Audioscan, Comparative Value of Verification in Traditional and Alternative Amplification Fittings, Industry funding. Principal Investigator, 2018-2019. $43,529.
  • Unitron, Hearing Aids and Dementia, Industry funding, 2013-2015, $121,500.
  • National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH-NIDCD), Predicting Speech Intelligibility from Directivity Index, F31. Principal investigator, 2002-2003, $25,783.

Service:

  • Academy of Doctors of Audiology
  • National Academies of Practice
  • Texas Academy of Audiology

Select Publications:

  • Amlani AM (under review). The Structural Determinants Framework of Hearing Healthcare Adoption (SDF-HAA): Explaining persistent underadoption. American Journal of Audiology.
  • Amlani AM. (in press). Highly trained, structurally marginalized: What audiology reveals about interprofessional workforce design. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice.
  • Amlani AM. (in press). Professional status of audiology in US healthcare: A health economics perspective. Seminars in Hearing [Special Issue on Audiology Workforce].
  • Amlani AM, Bray V. (in press). Audiology 2050: Aligning collective professional perspectives with a roadmap for the future. Seminars in Hearing [Special Issue on Audiology Workforce].
  • Amlani AM, Schulang J. (in press). Economic implications of audiology student debt for workforce sustainability. Seminars in Hearing [Special Issue on Audiology Workforce].
  • Bray V, Amlani AM. (in press). Economics of audiology wages: Benchmarking a doctoral health profession within US healthcare. Seminars in Hearing [Special Issue on Audiology Workforce].
  • Bray V, Amlani AM. (in press). Audiology workforce supply and population demand: Trends, benchmarks, and implications Seminars in Hearing [Special Issue on Audiology Workforce].
  • Amlani AM. (2023). Influence of determinants of health on the hearing care framework: An economic perspective. Seminars in Hearing, 44(3): 232-260.
  • Ribeiro RS, Amlani AM, Conto JD, Schwertz BG, Amarilla RSD, Sant Ana LH, Avelar M, Catai RE, Matoski A. (2021). Characterization of the acoustical treatment of a classroom with wood-based composites. Applied Acoustics, 178(1):107967. 
  • Maidment DW, Amlani AM. (2020). Argumentum ad ignorantiam: Smartphone-connected listening devices. Invited paper, Seminars in Hearing, 41(4):254-265. 
  • Amlani AM. (2020). Influence of provider interaction on patient’s need recognition towards audiological services and technology. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 31(5):342-353
  • Manchaiah V, Amlani AM, Bricker T, Whitfield C, Ratinaud P. (2019). Benefits and shortcomings of direct-to-consumer hearing devices (DCHD): Analysis of large secondary data from Amazon user reviews. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62(5):1506-1516.
  • Amlani AM, Smaldino J, Hayes D, Taylor B, Gessling E. (2019). The feasibility of using a smartphone-based hearing-aid application to improve attitudes towards amplification and hearing impairment. American Journal of Audiology, 28(1): 125-136.