Jerry Punch Ph.D.

Dr. Punch, an audiologist, has held clinical, academic, and administrative positions in diverse professional settings. He came to MSU in 1990, where he has taught multiple courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels; conducted research on a variety of topics related to hearing aids, hearing aid fitting procedures, hearing handicap, and hearing loss prevention; and served as department chairperson from 1994-2000. Retired since May 2011, he maintains an office in the department and continues to pursue his professional interests in hearing handicap, hearing loss prevention, and community noise.

After serving seven years as the college representative on MSU’s Institutional Review Board (IRB), he currently serves as an alternate member. Dr. Punch is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Academy of Audiology, and is the recipient of several research and service awards. He consults as a forensic audiologist in cases involving hearing performance standards and community noise, and has a special interest in the association between wind-turbine noise and adverse health effects.

Research interests include the development of hearing performance standards for hearing-critical occupations, hearing loss due to exposure to loud noise and music, adverse health effects from exposure to wind-turbine noise, speech audiometric measures, the development and evaluation of low-cost hearing aids, and quality-of-life implications of hearing loss.