Dr. Baiduc is a hearing scientist with expertise in public health. She is the director of the HEARD laboratory (Hearing Epidemiology and Research Diagnostics). She earned her MPH and PhD from Northwestern University.
Her primary research interest is exploring risk factors for age-related hearing loss (presbycusis), especially those related to cardiovascular disease.ÌýRisk factors including tobacco smoking, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and marijuana are currently being evaluated by her research team. Professor Baiduc performs translational laboratory-based research on the effects of cardiovascular disease risk factors using behavioral and physiological tests of the auditory system. Current projects utilize high-freqeuncy distortion product otoacoustic emission testing to evaluate the cochlea in persons with hypertension.
Professor Baiduc also conducts epidemiological research using supervised machine learning approaches to explore the effects of combinations of cardiovascular disease risk factors on hearing loss across the lifespan. She is a member of the Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). She teaches courses for the undergraduate and graduate (AuD) programs at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.Ìý
Dr. Baiduc's research has been funded by CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ (Innovative Seed Grant), the Hearing Health Foundation, the American Hearing Research Foundation, and the NIH (NIDCD).