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Barbara Bell, Au.D.
Barbara Bell, Au.D. is a clinical audiologist at the Marion Downs Hearing Center at the University of Colorado Hospital. Barbara provides a variety of clinical services mainly in the area of adult hearing and balance assessment and adult rehabilitation. Specifically, Barbie provides routine diagnostic assessment (including immittance audiometry), vestibular evoked myogenic potentials, video electronystagmography, brainstem evoked response testing, and otoacoustic emissions. In addition to providing patient care, Barbie also supervises graduate audiology interns.
Education and Field Involvement
Dr. Bell received her B.A. from University of California at Santa Barbara in 1983, her M.A. from University of Northern Colorado in 1985, and her Au.D. from Central Michigan University in 2007. She is a member of the American Audiology Association, American Auditory Society, the American Speech, Language Hearing Association and the Colorado Audiology Association, where she has served on the Board as Vice President of Education.
Publications
Dr. Bell has published and presented on a variety of topics over the years. Most recently, she has been involved with and presented on a clinical trial with a middle ear implantable device. She has always been fascinated by the process of fitting a hearing aid, using probe microphones to collect objective data about the performance of a certain hearing aid while it is in a patient's ear. She appreciates the challenges of transferring a hearing aid's performance from a rigid laboratory setting to a patient's ear and looking for what she refers to as the human link. She is also very interested in outcomes. The following is a list of her publications:
Bell, B.A, and Tonokawa, L.L., Comparison of Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids in Children. Presented at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 1987
Bell, B.A. and Nelson, R.A., Case Studies in Autoimmune Sensorineural Hearing Loss: An Audiological Perspective, presented at the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, November, 1989
Bell, B.A. and Newman, L.V., Influences on Hearing Aid User Gain, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1990
Newman, L.V., Bell, B.A. and Schwallie, L., Case Studies in the Clinical Use of the EquiTest, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1990
Bell, B.A., Tonokawa, L.L. and Mills, D.M., A Performance Comparison of Children and Adults Using Cochlear Implants, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Denver, Colorado, April, 1991
Mills, D.M., Bell, B.A. and Tonokawa, L.L., Binaural Cochlear Implants, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Denver, Colorado, April 1991
Green, J.D., Luxford, W.M., Mills, D.M, Bell, B.A. and Tonokawa, L.L., Binaural Cochlear Implants, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Otologic Society, Waikoloa, Hawaii, May 1991
Schwallie, L., Bell, B.A., Luxford, W.M. and Combs, D., Assessing Balance Function: A Comparison of Doctor’s Diagnoses and Neurocom’s Diagnostics Inferences Based on Results Categories Table, presented at the American Academy of Otolaryngology Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, September, 1991
Gelnett, D. and Bell, B.A., Multifrequency Tympanometry: Test/Retest Reliability and Normative Data, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Nashville, Tennessee, April 1992
Green, J.D., Mills, D.M., Bell, B.A., Luxford, W.M. and Tonokawa, L.L., Binaural Cochlear Implants, American Journal of Otology, Vol. 13, Number 6, November, 1992, Pgs. 502-506
Lahaie, C, Bell, B.A. and Cone, C., Educating Youngsters About Hearing Protection: Three Available Programs, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Dallas, Texas, April 1995
Lahaie, C., Bell, B.A. and Cone, C., Community Outreach Programs: Good Works and Marketing for the Audiologist, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Dallas, Texas, April 1995
Bell-Lehmkuhler, B. A. and Dyhrkopp, P., How To Plan a Successful (and fun) State Affiliate Convention, presented at the American Academy of Audiology Convention, Chicago, Illinois, March 2000
Bell-Lehmkuhler, B. Current Trends in Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease, Access Audiology, Vol. 5, Number 6, Jan/Feb 2006.
Bell-Lehmkuhler, B., Meinke, D., Sedey, A. and Tuell, C., Reliability of Audiometric Thresholds Obtained with Insert Earphones When Used by Certified Audiometric Technicians, presented at the National Hearing Conservation Association Conference, February 2008
Bell-Lehmkuhler, B., Meinke, D., Sedey, A. and Tuell, C., Reliability of Audiometric Thresholds Obtained with Insert Earphones When Used by Certified Audiometric Technicians, Noise and Health, 11 (42), Jan-Mar. 2009, pgs.59-68.
Jenkins, HA, Uhler, K, Lupo, V, Bell-Lehmkuhler, B. Otologics Middle Ear System Phase IIb Clinical Trial: Preliminary Results. Presented at Proceedings of the 7th Asia Pacific Symposium on Cochlear Implants and Related Sciences (APSCI), 2009, 51-56.
Bell, B, Uhler, K, Sedey, A, Lupo V, Claycomb, S, Jenkins, H, Immittance Changes after Implantation of a Middle Ear Transducer, presented at American Academy of Audiology, San Diego, April 2010
Uhler, K., Bell-Lehmkuhler, B., Anderson, M., & Jenkins, H. Correlation of objective and subjective benefit in Implantable Hearing Aids., presented at American Auditory Society, March 2011.
Personal
When she is not busy being an Audiologist, Barbie is busy being a mom to her two pre-teen daughters. Together with her husband of 17 years, Bud, they take their family on camping trips and explore the great outdoors. Barbie also loves the theater and curling up with a good book.
