Debara L. Tucci

Debara Lyn Tucci is an American otolaryngologist, studying ear, nose, and throat conditions. She co-founded the Duke Hearing Center[1] and currently serves as a Professor of Surgery and Director of the Cochlear Implant Program at Duke University. In May 2019, she was selected to be the Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, one of the National Institutes of Health's 27 Institutes and Centers. She is joined NIH in September 2019.

Debara L. Tucci
Alma materUniversity of Virginia, BS, 1976
University of Michigan, MS, 1977
University of Virginia, MD, 1985
Duke University, MBA, 2013
Known forClinical research in communication disorders and clinical and surgical practice in otology and neurotology
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine and Otolaryngology
InstitutionsNational Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Incoming Director
Duke University, Professor of Surgery

Education & Early Career

Tucci received her Bachelor of Science in 1976 from the University of Virginia in Audiology and Speech Pathology. She then attended University of Michigan to receive her Master of Science in Audiology between 1976 and 1977. She began medical school at the University of Virginia in 1981, where she was awarded her Doctor of Medicine degree in 1985. She earned a Master of Business Administration from Fuqua School of Business.

Research

Tucci's research centers on hearing impairment and loss, working to understand the impact of hearing loss on the auditory development of children. She also studies the effects of cochlear implants, which are devices that allow for the electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve in people who are deaf. Cochlear implants are suggested to prevent or reverse inner ear damage, which leads to deafness.

Leadership

Tucci co-founded the Duke Hearing Center. She is the director of the cochlear implant program at Duke University. She is a past president of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.[2]

In May 2019, the National Institutes of Health's Director Francis Collins named Tucci Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.[3] Tucci will begin her tenure as Director in September 2019.

References
  1. "Academy President Meets with Recently Appointed Director of NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)". Audiology. 2019-12-17. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  2. "Executive Team". Cheer Applied. Retrieved 2019-05-02.
  3. "NIH names Dr. Debara L. Tucci as the next director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders". National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2019-05-03.
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