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About the Authors
Wei Qiu qiuw@plattsburgh.edu
Auditory Research Laboratory State University of New York at Plattsburgh
101 Broad Street
Plattsburgh, New York, NY 12901, USA
Wei Qiu is a senior scientist and the director of the Auditory Research Laboratory, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He is one of the researchers who originally introduced and developed the idea of using kurtosis as an index of the hazard to hearing from noise exposures. He published a series of articles exploring the use of the kurtosis metric to predict hearing damage in the animal and human models. As a member of the International Standardization Organization (ISO) and project leader, he is currently leading
a project to prepare for the revision of ISO 1999.
William J. Murphy wjm4@cdc.gov
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-27 Cincinnati, Ohio 45226-1998, USA
William J. Murphy is a Captain in the
United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and is coordinator for the Hearing Loss Prevention Cross-Sector Council for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He is an active member of the National Hearing Conservation Association and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). He is currently chair of the ASA American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Committee S3 for Bioacoustics. He has provided leadership to the ASA as chair of the Technical Committee on Noise and through work with the national and
international standards on noise.
Alice Suter ahsuter@gmail.com
Alice Suter and Associates 780 Oakway Circle
Ashland, Oregon 97520, USA
Alice Suter has been influential in noise criteria development, regulation, and public policy, first at the US Environmental
Protection Agency Office of Noise Abatement, later at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and then at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). At OSHA, she served as the principal author of the hearing conservation amendment to the noise standard. She holds fellowships in the American Speech-Language- Hearing Association and the Acoustical Society of America, from which she received the Distinguished Service Award. She lives in Ashland, OR, where she is unsuccessfully retired.
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Xie, H. W., Qiu, W., Heyer, N. J., Zhang, M. B., Zhang, P., Zhao, Y. M., and Hamernik, R. P. (2016). The use of the kurtosis-adjusted cumulative noise exposure metric in evaluating the hearing loss risk for complex noise. Ear and Hearing 37, 312-323. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000251.
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Zhang, M. B., Xie, H. W., Zhou, J. N., Sun, X., Hu, W., Zou, H., Zhou, L., Li, J., Zhang, M., Kardous, C. A., Morata, T. C., Murphy, W. J., Zhang, J. H., and Qiu, W. (2020). New metrics needed in the evaluation of hearing hazard associated with industrial noise exposure. Ear and Hearing, August 18, 2020 Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000942.
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