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Patti St. John, MCD, CCC-A

Director of Audiology & Hearing Aid Services
Department of Otorhinolaryngology

LSU Health Sciences Center
533 Bolivar St., 5th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: (504) 412-1585
Fax: (504) 780-8922

pstjoh@lsuhsc.edu

Degrees

M.C.D. - Masters in Communication Disorders
Louisiana State University School of Allied Health Professions
Bio Patti St. John was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1990. She received her Masters degree in Communication Disorders in 1992 from Louisiana State University, School of Allied Health Professions.

Following graduation in 1992 she began working with a hearing aid company towards her Certificate of Clinical Competence and finished the year at The Medical Center of Louisiana, ENT clinic under the supervision of Dr. Charles Berlin. She spent two years working with the ENT residents from LSU and Tulane University in The Medical Center of Louisiana ENT clinic providing the audiological services.

In 1995 she received a promotion to the private clinic for LSU Medical School, Department of Otorhinolaryngology. Job responsibilities included weekly clinic with Dr. Charles Berlin for comprehensive diagnostic audiological evaluations, hearing aid fittings and management, and auditory brainstem response testing including middle latency responses (MLR) and late latency responses (LLR). Testing also included diagnosing and managing cases of Auditory Dys-synchrony which led to a published article on the unusual audiological pattern of Auditory Dys-synchrony cases. She also worked with faculty of The Kresge Hearing Research Laboratory in coordinating clinical cases for research purposes including cases on Auditory Dys-synchrony, hereditary hearing loss and Ushers Syndrome. She served as an instructor for the Kresge Hearing Research Lab courses on Basic ABR with Oto-acoustic Emissions, Advanced Auditory Brainstem Testing, Hearing aids and Real Ear Measurements, and Identification and Management of Hearing Loss.

She became the Director of Audiology and Hearing aid services at LSU Health Sciences Center, Department of Otorhinolaryngology following the retirement of Dr. Charles Berlin in 2002. The Audiology and Hearing Aid clinic continued with services including ABR testing, hearing aids and assistive listening devices, and ENG testing. The Audiology faculty assumed the responsibility of establishing, performing, and managing the hearing screening for University Hospital in 2005 which came to an abrupt end at the time of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.

Following Hurricane Katrina, she had to re-establish hearing aid services in New Orleans with ENT services temporarily established in Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Clinical responsibilities continue to change, and therefore, she has decided to pursue a doctorate of Audiology beginning in 2007.
Clinical Interests Identification and Management of Auditory Dys-synchrony
Auditory Evoked Potential Testing
Hearing Aids and Assistive Listening Devices
Infant Hearing Screenings
Vestibular Assessment and Management
Selected Publications

Berlin CI, Hood LJ, Morlet T, Wilensky D, St. John P, Absent or Elevated Middle Ear Muscle reflexes in the presence of normal otoacoustic emissions; A Universal Finding in 136 cases of Auditory Neuropathy, JAAA Sept v 16. pp 550-557, 2005.

Berlin CI, Bordelon J, St. John P, Wilensky D, Hurley A, Kluka E & Hood LJ, Reversing Click Polarity May Uncover Auditory Neuropathy in Infants., Ear and Hearing 19:37-47, 1998.
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