Lina Motlagh Zadeh , PHD

Initially trained as a clinical audiologist at the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (Tehran-Iran). She received her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. After graduation, she continued her postdoctoral training in the Communication Sciences Research Center at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital until August 2023 when she started her faculty position at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include development of a set of behavioral measures to assess the effects of peripheral and central auditory abilities on speech perception in noise, understanding the mechanisms underlying subclinical hearing loss, and optimization of hearing healthcare delivery. Her teaching career goal is to contribute to the advancement of clinical care in communication disorders and help her students to be independent thinkers and pioneers when following their clinical careers or pursuing higher education.

Ph.D.: University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, 2018 (Communication Sciences and Disorders )

M.S.: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran, 2013 (Audiology)

B.S.: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Tehran, Iran, 2009 (Audiology )

Research interests include development of a set of behavioral measures to assess the effects of peripheral and central auditory abilities on speech perception in noise, understanding the mechanisms underlying subclinical hearing loss, and optimization of hearing healthcare delivery.

2018 -2023 Research Associate , , Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

2018 -2023 Adjunct Professor, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

2009 -2014 Clinical Audiologist , Tehran, Iran

2023 -To Present Assistant Professor, Audiology, University of Cincinnati - College of Allied Health,

Grant: #R21DC020242 NIH Investigating the contribution of extended high-frequency hearing loss to poor speech-in-noise perception in clinically normal hearing children and young adults Role:PI

Grant: #7R21DC020242 Investigators:Motlagh Zadeh, Lina 12-01-2023 -03-31-2026 National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disor Investigating the contribution of extended high-frequency hearing loss to poor speech-in-noise perception in clinically normal hearing children and young adults. Role:PI 291560.00 Active Level:Federal

Peer Reviewed Publications

Petley, Lauren; Hunter, Lisa L; Motlagh Zadeh, Lina; Stewart, Hannah J; Sloat, Nicholette T; Perdew, Audrey; Lin, Li; Moore, David R (2021. ) Listening Difficulties in Children With Normal Audiograms: Relation to Hearing and Cognition.Ear and hearing, , 42 (6 ) ,1640-1655 More Information

Motlagh Zadeh, Lina; Silbert, Noah H; Swanepoel, De Wet; Moore, David R (2021. ) Improved Sensitivity of Digits-in-Noise Test to High-Frequency Hearing Loss.Ear and hearing, , 42 (3 ) ,565-573 More Information

Motlagh Zadeh, Lina; Silbert, Noah H; Sternasty, Katherine; Moore, David R (2021. ) Development and validation of a digits-in-noise hearing test in Persian.International journal of audiology, , 60 (3 ) ,202-209 More Information

Motlagh Zadeh, Lina; Silbert, Noah H; Sternasty, Katherine; Swanepoel, De Wet; Hunter, Lisa L; Moore, David R (2019. ) Extended high-frequency hearing enhances speech perception in noise.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, , 116 (47 ) ,23753-23759 More Information

Motlagh Zadeh, Lina; Jalilvand Karimi, Leyla; Silbert, Noah H (2018. ) Bilingualism leads to greater auditory capacity.International journal of audiology, , 57 (11 ) ,831-837 More Information

Silbert, Noah H; Motlagh Zadeh, Lina (2018. ) Modeling talker- and listener-based sources of variability in babble-induced consonant confusions.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, , 143 (5 ) ,2780 More Information

Hunter, Lisa L; Blankenship, Chelsea M; Shinn-Cunningham, Barbara; Hood, Linda; Zadeh, Lina Motlagh; Moore, David R (2023. ) Brainstem auditory physiology in children with listening difficulties.Hearing research, , 429 ,108705 More Information

Hunter, Lisa L; Monson, Brian B; Moore, David R; Dhar, Sumitrajit; Wright, Beverly A; Munro, Kevin J; Zadeh, Lina Motlagh; Blankenship, Chelsea M; Stiepan, Samantha M; Siegel, Jonathan H (2020. ) Extended high frequency hearing and speech perception implications in adults and children.Hearing research, , 397 ,107922 More Information

Lipps, E., Caldwell-Kurtzman, J., Motlagh Zadeh, L., Blankenship, C.M., Moore, D.R., and Hunter, L.L. (2022. ) Impact of Face Masks on Audiovisual Word Recognition in Young Children with Hearing Loss during the Covid-19 Pandemic.J Early Hear Detection Intervention, , 6 (2 ) ,70 More Information

De Sousa, C. K., Moore R. D., Motlagh Zadeh, L., Myburgh, C. H., Swanepoel, D. W (2019. ) Do Smartphone Hearing Aid Apps Work? .The Hearing Journal, , 72 (11 ) ,34

Margolis, R. H., Sanchez, V., Hunter, L. L., Rao, A., Boyle, S., Motlagh Zadeh, L., Wong, A. N. (2024. ) Air-conduction and bone-conduction reference threshold levels - A multicenter study.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, , 156 (5 ) ,3545–3553. More Information

Kojima, K., Lin, L., Petley, L., Clevenger, N., Perdew, A., Bodik, M., Blankenship, C. M., Motlagh Zadeh, L., Hunter, L. L., Moore, D. R. (2024. ) Childhood listening and associated cognitive difficulties persist into adolescence.Ear and hearing, , 45 (5 ) ,1252–1263. More Information

Motlagh Zadeh, L., Brennan, V., Swanepoel, D W., Moore R. D. (2024. ) Remote self-report and speech-in-noise measures predict clinical audiometric thresholds.International Journal of Audiology, , More Information