Dr. Lobarinas is an Assistant Research Professor in the University at Buffalo's Center for Hearing and Deafness who also enjoys seeing patients at our Harlem Road Office on a part time basis. Prior to coming to Buffalo, Dr. Lobarinas worked at the Department of Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University for five years. Dr. Lobarinas' current research is focused on tinnitus, tinnitus treatment, ototoxicity and noice induced hearing loss using animal models. Dr. Lobarinas has been published in a number of national research journals and textbooks, is an international speaker and is an assistant editor for the American Journal of Audiology.

Dr. Lobarinas was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, grew up overseas in the Canary Islands (Spain) and currently resides in Amherst with his wife.

Education/Training:

2007 Doctor of Philosophy: Audiology and Hearing Science
State University of New York at Buffalo

2004 Master of Arts: Communication Disorders and Sciences
State University of New York at Buffalo

1996 Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Minor: Biological Sciences
Rutgers University

Licenses and Certifications:

New York State License in Audiology

Hearing Aid Dispensing License

Certificate of Clinical Competence, ASHA

Awards/Honors:

Adjunct Instructor for the University at Buffalo since 2005

Ad-hoc Grant Reviewer - American Tinitus Association 2007

Committee Member - Pharmacology Group - Tinnitus Research Initiative 2007

Recipient of the Jack Katz Award for Central Auditory Processing 2003

Recipient of the National Institute of Health Minority Research Award 2000

Presentations (selected):

Lobarinas, E., Sun, W., Sarbadhikari, K., and Salvi, R. (2008) Evaluating noise induced tinnitus using the Gap Prepulse Inhibition of the Acoustic Startle (GPIAS) in Rats Presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February, Phoenix, Arizona

Lobarinas, E., Langguth, B., Sun, W., Lu, J. and Salvi, R. (2008) The Therapeutic effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on Persistent Noise Induced Tinnitus in Rats. Presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, February, Phoenix, Arizona

Lobarinas, E., Salvi, R. 2007. Do animals experience tinnitus? Can they tell us? World ENT 4, 9-10

Lobarinas, E., Sun, W., and Salvi, R. (2008) Human Brain Imaging and Animal Models of Tinnitus. Symposium: Tinnitus - Auditory and Nonauditory Factors, German National Library in collaboration with Merz Pharmaceuticals, and the University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Lobarinas, E. and Salvi, R. (2007) Tinnitus: Human Brain Imaging, Animal Models and Physiological Correlates. Advances in Tinnitus Assessment, Treatment and Neuroscience Basis, June, Grand Island, NY

Memberships:

American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)

American Academy of Audiology (AAA)

Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)

Publications (selected):

Yang, G., Lobarinas, E., Zhang, L., Turner, J., Stolzberg, D., Salvi, R., Sun, W. 2006. Salicylate induced tinnitus: Behavioral measures and neural activity in auditory cortex of awake rats. Hear Res.

Lobarinas, E., Yang., G., Sun, W., Ding, D., Mirza, N., Dalby-Brown, W., Hilczmayer, E., Fitzgerald, S., Zhang, L., Salvi, R. 2006. Salicylate- and qui nine-induced tinnitus and effects of memantine. Acta oto-laryngologica, 13-9.

Salvi, R., Sun, W., Lobarinas, E. 2007. Anatomy and physiology of the peripheral auditory system. In: Roeser, R., Hosford-Dunn., H., Valente, M., (Eds.), Audiology Diagnosis. Thieme, New York. pp. 17-36.