{"id":7642,"date":"2025-04-02T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/?p=7642"},"modified":"2025-03-31T19:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T19:09:59","slug":"congrats-dr-kunnath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/2025\/04\/02\/congrats-dr-kunnath\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats, Dr. Kunnath!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7643\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/03\/Ansley-Kunnath-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Congrats, Dr. Kunnath!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who<\/strong>: Ansley Kunnath, PhD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Department<\/strong>: Neuroscience<\/p>\n<p><strong>PI Mentor<\/strong>: Mark Wallace &amp; Ren\u00e9 Gifford<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research<\/strong>: I study how people with hearing loss integrate information across different senses during speech understanding and the cortical networks involved in this process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vanderbilt Impact: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">I work in the labs of Dr. Mark Wallace and Dr. Ren\u00e9 Gifford to study perceptual and neural plasticity in cochlear implant users through behavioral paradigms, functional neuroimaging, and pharmacological interventions<\/span>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post-PhD Plans:<\/strong> Dr. Kunnath plans on finishing medical school, then progressing to an otolaryngology residency!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congrats, Dr. Kunnath! Who: Ansley Kunnath, PhD Department: Neuroscience PI Mentor: Mark Wallace &amp; Ren\u00e9 Gifford Research: I study how people with hearing loss integrate information across different senses during speech understanding and the cortical networks involved in this process. Vanderbilt Impact: &#8220;I work in the labs of Dr. Mark Wallace and Dr. Ren\u00e9 Gifford&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":7643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-7642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-student-profile"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2025\/03\/Ansley-Kunnath-e1743447938353.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7642\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/bret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}