Lori Leibold is the Senior Director of Hearing Research at Boys Town National Research Hospital and the Program Director of the Center for Perception and Communication in Children. Dr. Leibold completed her master’s degree in Audiology at the University of Western Ontario. After working as a clinical audiologist, she completed her Ph.D. in Lynne Werner’s Infant Hearing Laboratory at the University of Washington. Next, she completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Walt Jesteadt and Dr. Donna Neff at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Dr. Leibold was a faculty member in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for nine years before returning to Boys Town National Research Hospital in 2015. Her program of research is focused on understanding how hearing develops during infancy and childhood, and how factors such as hearing loss and intellectual disability impact the ability to recognize speech in noisy environments.