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• workEar, Nose and Throat Department
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 924 9924 x63933
• fax01159709748
• Douglas.Hartley@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medicine/people/douglas.hartley

Biography

I qualified with distinction from Newcastle Medical School in 1995 and was awarded a DPhil from Oxford University in the field of hearing research in 2001. I worked as a Clinical Lecturer in ENT Surgery at Oxford University, and was fortunate to be the first recipient of a Wellcome Trust Clinician Scientist Fellowship in Otolaryngology: the second recipient across any surgical specialty. I spent time as a Surgical Fellow at the Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre, after becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS ORL-HNS), and completing my higher surgical training in ENT at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Currently, I am a Professor of Otology at Nottingham University and a Consultant ENT Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospital's (NUH) NHS Trust - Queen's Medical Centre. I lead the Objective measures area of the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Hearing theme. Our innovative research using functional near-infrared spectroscopy aims to develop a prognostic tool for cochlear implantation to help guide allocation of limited healthcare resources for rehabilitation. Together with my clinical work as a consultant Otologist at the NUH NHS Trust, this enhances the Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme's profile, drawing national referrals. I have secured >£2 million in personal grant funding and have contributed to a number of major collaborative awards, including the Sir Peter Mansfield Imagaging centre's £7.7 million, Nottingham BRC's £23.642 million and Nottingham BRU's £6.2 million awards. I have a track record for high impact publications in hearing research that include a PNAS paper and 2 publications in the Journal of Neuroscience and have been invited to speak at >30 international meetings. In national recognition of sustained achievement in research I was awarded the Royal Society of Medicine's Otology prize (2010-14). I have supervised 8 postdoctoral, 6 PhD, 3 BMedSci students and a Clinical Fellow, I have taught on MSc courses in Oxford and London and my average feedback (SET score) for undergraduate teaching was 4.6 (out of 5) in 2017. I serve on grant review panels for Action on Hearing Loss and the NIHR.

Expertise Summary

Ear, nose and throat conditions in adults and children, particularly hearing and balance disorders, chronic ear disease and cholesteatoma. Specialist in ear surgery, including mastoidectomy, bone-anchored hearing aids and cochlear implantation.

Teaching Summary

I have a strong track record for teaching undergraduates, postgraduates, and GPs locally, as is evidenced by my average SET score for undergraduate teaching (4.6 out of 5). I have also been invited… read more

Research Summary

I lead the Objective measures area of the NIHR Nottingham BRC Hearing theme and I am a cochlear implant surgeon with the Nottingham Auditory implant programme. My research aims to develop a… read more

Recent Publications

• MUSHTAQ F, WIGGINS IM, KITTERICK PT, ANDERSON CA and HARTLEY DEH, 2019. Evaluating time-reversed speech and signal-correlated noise as auditory baselines for isolating speech-specific processing using fNIRS. PloS one. 14(7), e0219927
• ANDERSON CA, WIGGINS IM, KITTERICK PT and HARTLEY DEH, 2019. Pre-operative Brain Imaging Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Helps Predict Cochlear Implant Outcome in Deaf Adults. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 20(5), 511-528
• ROWLAND SC, HARTLEY DEH and WIGGINS IM, 2018. Listening in Naturalistic Scenes: What Can Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Intersubject Correlation Analysis Tell Us About the Underlying Brain Activity? Trends in hearing. 22, 2331216518804116
• LAWRENCE RJ, WIGGINS IM, ANDERSON CA, DAVIES-THOMPSON J and HARTLEY DEH, 2018. Cortical correlates of speech intelligibility measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Hearing research. 370, 53-64

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I have a strong track record for teaching undergraduates, postgraduates, and GPs locally, as is evidenced by my average SET score for undergraduate teaching (4.6 out of 5). I have also been invited to teach on MSc courses in Oxford and UCL. I have contributed significantly to the supervision of hearing researchers in Nottingham and Oxford (postdoctoral researchers: n=8; PhD students: n=6; BMedSci students: n=3 and Clinical Academic fellow: n=1). I have also examined a number of theses in Nottingham and I have been invited to examine PhDs in Australia and the Netherlands.

Current Research

• I lead the Objective measures area of the NIHR Nottingham BRC Hearing theme and I am a cochlear implant surgeon with the Nottingham Auditory implant programme.
• My research aims to develop a clinical prognostic indicator of cochlear implant (CI) outcome using functional near-infrared spectroscopy.
• Since we currently lack a reliable prognostic measure of outcome, similar rehabilitation strategies are generically provided to all CI users.
• The cost of outpatient visits, including rehabilitation, is £11k per CI user over the first four postop years, with £0.6k p.a. thereafter.
• Our research goal is to allow clinicians to tailor rehabilitation strategies to the needs of an individual, to pre-operatively inform individuals on the likely outcome from their treatment, and to objectively monitor longitudinal progress in outcomes following surgery.
• Subsequently, existing rehabilitation costs could be reduced for individuals who are predicted to perform well and/or these resources could be reallocated to those who would benefit from greater intervention.
• My translational research programme at the NIHR Nottingham BRC is conducted in collaboration with i) fundamental science at Nottingham's Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research and the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, and ii) my clinical work at the Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme.

• MUSHTAQ F, WIGGINS IM, KITTERICK PT, ANDERSON CA and HARTLEY DEH, 2019. Evaluating time-reversed speech and signal-correlated noise as auditory baselines for isolating speech-specific processing using fNIRS. PloS one. 14(7), e0219927
• ANDERSON CA, WIGGINS IM, KITTERICK PT and HARTLEY DEH, 2019. Pre-operative Brain Imaging Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Helps Predict Cochlear Implant Outcome in Deaf Adults. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO. 20(5), 511-528
• ROWLAND SC, HARTLEY DEH and WIGGINS IM, 2018. Listening in Naturalistic Scenes: What Can Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Intersubject Correlation Analysis Tell Us About the Underlying Brain Activity? Trends in hearing. 22, 2331216518804116
• LAWRENCE RJ, WIGGINS IM, ANDERSON CA, DAVIES-THOMPSON J and HARTLEY DEH, 2018. Cortical correlates of speech intelligibility measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Hearing research. 370, 53-64
• LAWRENCE, R., JEFFS, E. and HARTLEY, D. E. H., 2018. Delayed-onset facial nerve paresis following cochlear implantation: case report and literature review JOURNAL OF LARYNGOLOGY AND OTOLOGY. 132(12), 1150-1152
• WIJAYASIRI P, HARTLEY DEH and WIGGINS IM, 2017. Brain activity underlying the recovery of meaning from degraded speech: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study. Hearing research. 351, 55-67
• ANDERSON CA, WIGGINS IM, KITTERICK PT and HARTLEY DEH, 2017. Adaptive benefit of cross-modal plasticity following cochlear implantation in deaf adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114(38), 10256-10261
• ANDERSON CA, LAZARD DS and HARTLEY DE, 2016. Plasticity in bilateral superior temporal cortex: Effects of deafness and cochlear implantation on auditory and visual speech processing. Hearing research. (In Press.)
• WIGGINS IM, ANDERSON CA, KITTERICK PT and HARTLEY DE, 2016. Speech-evoked activation in adult temporal cortex measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS): Are the measurements reliable? Hearing research. 339, 142-54
• LAWLER CA, WIGGINS IM, DEWEY RS and HARTLEY DEH, 2015. The use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy for measuring cortical reorganisation in cochlear implant users: a possible predictor of variable speech outcomes? Cochlear implants international. 16 Suppl 1, S30-2
• DEWEY RS and HARTLEY DEH, 2015. Cortical cross-modal plasticity following deafness measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Hearing research.
• WIGGINS IM and HARTLEY DEH, 2015. A Synchrony-Dependent Influence of Sounds on Activity in Visual Cortex Measured Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS). PloS one. 10(3), e0122862
• ISAIAH A and HARTLEY DE, 2015. Can training extend current guidelines for cochlear implant candidacy? Neural regeneration research. 10(5), 718-20
• ISAIAH A, VONGPAISAL T, KING AJ and HARTLEY DEH, 2014. Multisensory training improves auditory spatial processing following bilateral cochlear implantation. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 34(33), 11119-30
• HARTLEY DEH and ISAIAH A, 2014. Envelope enhancement increases cortical sensitivity to interaural envelope delays with acoustic and electric hearing. PloS one. 9(8), e104097
• HARTLEY, D.E.H., DAHMEN, J.C., KING, A.J. and SCHNUPP, J.W.H., 2011. Binaural sensitivity changes between cortical on and off responses Journal of Neurophysiology. 106(1), 30-43
• HARTLEY, D.E.H., VONGPAISAL, T., XU, J., SHEPHERD, R.K., KING, A.J. and ISAIAH, A., 2010. Bilateral cochlear implantation in the ferret: a novel animal model for behavioral studies Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 190(2), 214-228
• DAHMEN, J.C., HARTLEY, D.E.H. and KING, A.J., 2008. Stimulus-timing-dependent plasticity of cortical frequency representation The Journal of Neuroscience. 28(50), 13629-13639
• KULKARNI, K. and HARTLEY, D.E., 2008. Recent advances in hearing restoration Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 101(3), 116-124
• TALBOT, K.N. and HARTLEY, D.E.H., 2008. Combined electro-acoustic stimulation: a beneficial union? Clinical Otolaryngology. 33(6), 536-545
• HARTLEY, DOUGLAS E H and MOORE, DAVID R, 2005. Effects of otitis media with effusion on auditory temporal resolution. International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology. 69(6), 757-69
• HILL, PENELOPE R, HARTLEY, DOUGLAS E H, GLASBERG, BRIAN R, MOORE, BRIAN C J and MOORE, DAVID R, 2004. Auditory processing efficiency and temporal resolution in children and adults. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 47(5), 1022-9
• MOORE, DAVID R, HARTLEY, DOUGLAS E H and HOGAN, SARAH C M, 2003. Effects of otitis media with effusion (OME) on central auditory function. International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology. 67 Suppl 1, S63-7
• HARTLEY, DOUGLAS E H and MOORE, DAVID R, 2003. Effects of conductive hearing loss on temporal aspects of sound transmission through the ear. Hearing research. 177(1-2), 53-60
• HARTLEY, DOUGLAS E H, HILL, PENNY R and MOORE, DAVID R, 2003. The auditory basis of language impairments: temporal processing versus processing efficiency hypotheses. International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology. 67 Suppl 1, S137-42
• HARTLEY, DOUGLAS E H and MOORE, DAVID R, 2002. Auditory processing efficiency deficits in children with developmental language impairments. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 112(6), 2962-6
• HARTLEY, D E, WRIGHT, B A, HOGAN, S C and MOORE, D R, 2000. Age-related improvements in auditory backward and simultaneous masking in 6- to 10-year-old children. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 43(6), 1402-15