Title: Professor and Chairwoman with the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Company: Montclair State University

Location: Bloomfield, N.J.

Dr. Koehnke has written various articles, including ‘A Procedure for Testing Speech Intelligibility in a Virtual Listening Environment,’ which was published in Ear & Hearing. She also wrote ‘Level Effects on Binaural Tasks: Interaural Time Discrimination and Intensity Discrimination,’ published in the American Journal of Audiology in 2004. In addition, her article ‘Effects of Frequency Disparity on Gap Duration Discrimination in Older Listeners’ appeared in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and ‘Effects of Hearing Loss on Echo Thresholds’ appeared in Ear and Hearing in 2002. In 2011, Dr. Koehnke’s paper ‘The effects of reverberation on speech perception in sound field multi-talker tests conducted in audiology clinic’ was published in the Archives of Acoustics and in 2009 the article, ‘Processing Interaural Cues in Sound Segregation by Young and Middle-Aged Brains,’ in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology.

The highlight of Dr. Koehnke’s career was developing the audiology program at the university, which also extended openings to students from another university once its program closed. This came as a result of being on the faculty at another institution in New Jersey that suddenly closed its audiology doctoral program, even though it was the only program in the state. All of the faculty and students were able to successfully transfer to MSU after much hard work and help from friends and colleagues around the world to get state approval for the program transfer. She attributes her success to her persistence, hard work, ethic, diligence, and goal-oriented nature. She also credits her parents, professional mentors, Dr. Susan Jerger and Dr. Steve Colburn, and longtime colleague and friend, Dr. Joan Besing, with whom she worked for 20 years. Initially, Dr. Koehnke became involved in her profession because she had an interest in the health profession and wanted to educate future students to become professionals in their fields.