Dr. Rohit Ravi earned his PhD from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, under the guidance of Dr. Krishna Yerraguntla & Dr. Bellur Rajashekhar. He is working at the Department of Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, Kasturba Medical College, MAHE, Mangalore . His areas of research include pediatric audiology and rehabilitative audiology. He has over 35 peer- reviewed international publications which have been widely cited. He serves as an academic editor for PLOS ONE and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Audiology and Otology. He serves as a reviewer for over 15 peer-reviewed indexed journals in the field of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. He has been successful in receiving funding from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is the recipient of the prestigious Audiology/Hearing Research Travel Award by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association. He has also been accepted for the 2022 Audiology Early Career Professionals Program by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association.
Dr. Ravi will be pursuing his Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) at Utah State University under the mentorship of Dr. Karl White, who is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on early identification and treatment of hearing loss. His research at NCHAM will help gain experience and expertise from well-established and successful Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) programs in the United States that can help in expanding and improving the implementation of UNHS programs in India.