Louis T. Benezet Award Winner-2004 - Colorado College

Jerry L. Northern '62

To say that Jerry Northern is accomplished in his field is to be guilty of grave understatement. His curriculum vitae is nearly a dozen pages long, a veritable catalog of professional achievements.

Upon completion of his doctoral education, Jerry spent the Vietnam years on active duty at the U.S. Army Audiology and Speech Pathology Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He returned to Colorado in 1970 to join the faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and to become Head of the Audiology Division at University Hospital. In addition to his position as Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics, he holds several affiliate appointments around the state and has had over fifty other professional affiliations nationally and internationally

Dr. Northern is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, past-President of the American Academy of Audiology. He is active in planning various continuing education activities and was the 1990 Chairman for the 1990 National ASSHA Convention.

He has authored and edited twelve textbooks including several that have foreign language editions. He is perhaps best know for Hearing in Children and Hearing Disorders. He has written nearly thirty chapters in other textbooks, and authored more than sixty scientific journal articles on a wide variety of topics dealing with the evaluation of hearing and auditory disorders. He serves as reviewer for several journals, is on the Editorial Board of Ear & Hearing, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Hearing.

Dr. Northern travels extensively teaching and providing clinical training in audiology in numerous third-world countries. He has worked on nearly every continent and consults with a wide variety of commercial firms, publishers and government agencies.

Jerry Northern embodies attainment in his field; such accomplishment richly deserves our commendation.

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