University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr Fatima T. Husain is a Professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, and an Associate Dean in the College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
She is also a faculty member in the Neuroscience Program and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the same university.
More about Fatima’s work
Dr Husain uses a multidisciplinary approach combining behavioural, brain imaging, and computational modelling tools to study tinnitus and other hearing disorders.
Targeted brain training as a treatment for tinnitus
Read about Fatima’s research projectFatima’s hopes for hearing research
I began studying tinnitus and hearing loss for personal reasons – I have family members with both. I see the impact of these conditions in my family, and now in myself, and I want to help them – first by better understanding the mechanisms underlying these conditions and next, to develop new therapies. My long-term goal is to develop non-invasive, cost-effective therapies that can be implemented broadly around the world.
I am deeply grateful to RNID and all they do for education, advocacy, and research. Our research on using novel neurofeedback for helping people with tinnitus would not be possible without them. There are few other entities or charitable foundations that fund seed grants focused on interventions in hearing loss and tinnitus with the focus, scale and impact of RNID. This singular focus on transformative, translational hearing research is unique to RNID.