Collaborators

Steve Aiken

Associate Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (Surgery, Psychology and Neuroscience), Dalhouse University

• Human auditory electrophysiological responses
• Noise-induced auditory pathology
• Efferent auditory responses
• Google Scholar, Scopus

Chris Allan

Assistant Professor/Clinical Education Coordinator, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Basic and advanced hearing assessment
• Auditory processing assessment
• Auditory perception
• Objective measurement of auditory function

Sangam Ankmnal Veeranna

Assistant Professor in Audiology, School of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi (USA)

• Auditory processing in families (adults and children) with / without listening difficulties using psychoacoustic and (objective) electrophysiological measurements
• Validation and verification of newly developed auditory tests
• Auditory evoked responses at high frequencies (8 kHz and above) using clinical and research-grade equipment
• Comparison of commercially available auditory diagnostic instruments
• Genetic architecture of hearing loss and balance disorders
• Google Scholar

Mehmet Begen

Associate Professor, Ivey Business School, Western University

• Healthcare operations
• Efficiency analysis
• Cost effectiveness
• Healthcare analytics
• Scheduling and any mathematical modelling
• Google Scholar

Christine Brown

Clinical Audiologist, Ontario Infant Hearing Program/H.A. Leeper Speech and Hearing Clinc

• Infant Hearing Program
• Pediatric audiology assessment and interviews

Ian Bruce

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McMaster University

• Hearing aids
• Cochlear implants
• Speech intelligibility and quality
• Tinnitus
• Music neuroscience
• Google Scholar, Scopus

Marshall Chasin

Director of Audiology, Musicians' Clinics of Canada, Toronto

• Noise, music, or hearing aid related

Ioan Curca

Assistant Professor/Clinical Supervisor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Hearing aids and hearing evaluation
• Balance and vestibular screening
• Tinnitus evaluation and counselling
• Cochlear and other implantable devices

Rachel Dingle

Director of Clinical Audiology, Ear & Hearing Clinic (Elmira, with clinics in Kitchener, Palmerston, and in retirement communities across Ontario)

• Research-to-clinic practices
• Pediatric assessment / fitting
• Central auditory processing assessment and management
• Fitting strategies for smaller complex populations of hearing aid users
• Functional impacts of ultra-high frequency hearing loss
• Evidence-based approaches to more detailed, individualized fitting approaches

Viji Easwar

Head, Pediatric hearing research at the National Acoustic Laboratories (Australia)

• Pediatrics
• Objective measures
• Hearing aid fitting and outcome measurement in children
• Google Scholar

Dave Gordey

Director of Pediatric Audiology and Research, Oticon (Toronto, Copenhagen)

• Pediatrics
• Auditory processing
• Behaviour change
• Hearing aids
• Counselling

Roberto Guadagno

Clinical Audiologist/Owner, Brampton Audiology

• Supra-threshold measures (i.e., frequency resolution abilities) and how they relate to / may predict real-world hearing abilities of individuals with hearing loss, with and without amplification

Sarah Hayes

Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Rochester (USA)

Adjunct Research Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University

• Better understand the adverse effects of hearing loss on brain health
• Google Scholar

Peter Kirchberger

Audiologist / Owner, Kirchberger Audiology Professional Corporation (Orange Hearing Clinic, Alliston Audiology)

• Technology transfer
• Clinical protocol improvements

Steve Lomber

Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences (Physiology), McGill University

• Integration of psychophysics, electrophysiological recording, neuroanatomical techniques, and functional imaging to examine processing in the auditory cortex
• Google Scholar

Matt Lucas

Marketing Manager, Audioscan

Founder / Chief Audiologist, Lucas Audiology

Assistant Professor (Limited Duties), School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Western University

• Genetics of hearing loss and diagnoses
• Occupational audiology
• Hearing aid verification
• Google Scholar

Theresa McVea

Audiology Lead, Horizon Health Network, Saint John, NB

• EHDI programs (Canadian Infant Hearing Task Force, The Hearing Foundation of Canada)

Christine Meston

Assistant Professor/Clinical Supervisor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

• Pediatric audiology
• Aural rehabilitation
• Clinical education
• Google Scholar

Marie Pigeon

Audiologist, CHEO, Infant Hearing Program Designated Training Centre, and, Newborn Screening Ontario (Hearing Loss Risk Factor Screening Program), Ottawa, Canada

• Infant hearing screening, assessment, intervention
• Protocol development for infant and child hearing assessment
• Population based genetic screening for hearing loss risk factors, including system design, service delivery design
• Training clinical Audiologists in advanced practice for infant/child hearing assessment
• Research on mild and unilateral pediatric hearing loss

Andreas Seelisch

Director of Audiology, Hearing Solutions Ontario

• Applied research including clinical practice guidelines, training and education, counselling, barriers to hearing aid uptake, clinical and patient decision making, tele-audiology and sound quality
• Clinical practice guidelines for COVID
• Simulation in coaching using CARL

Terry-Lynn Young

Professor and Director of Genomics Research, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University; Visiting Scientist, National Centre for Audiology

• Gene discovery
• Genetic architecture of hearing loss and balance disorders
• Google Scholar, Scopus