The NCA Team
Contact the NCA
519-661-3901
info@nca.uwo.ca
Elborn College - Room 2262
1201 Western Road
London, Ontario N6G 1H1
Investigators

Sumit Agrawal
Assistant Professor and Research Director, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
- Surgical simulation
- Tympanic membrane and middle-ear biomechanics
- Vestibular disorders

Prudence Allen
Associate Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Assessment of developmental changes in chidren's ability to process complex sounds
- Central auditory processing disorders
- Effects of noise on academic skills and achievement

Brian Allman
Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Multisensory processing
- Cortical plasticity following hearing loss
- Tinnitus and its risk factors

Marlene Bagatto
Assistant Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
- Policy and practice integration in the area of pediatric audiology
- Pediatric amplfication
- Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programs

Blake Butler
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
- Sensory systems development
- Sensory loss and neuroplasticity
- Multisensory integration

Janis Cardy
Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
- Neural, genetic and processing underpinnings of language development and disorders in children
- Overlap between developmental disorders such as language impairment and autism spectrum disorders

Paula Folkeard
Research Manager and Audiologist, National Centre for Audiology
- Adult amplification and outcome measurement
- Product and procedure validation
- Industry-sponsored research

Danielle Glista
Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Connected hearing healthcare, ehealth, mhealth
- Hearing aid fitting and signal processing
- Aided outcome measurement
- Publications

Ingrid Johnsrude
Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders and Department of Psychology; Director, Brain and Mind Institute
- Auditory perceptual organization
- Cognitive neuroscience of speech and hearing and cognitive aging
- Speech listening in adverse conditions
- Neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) in perception and cognition
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication and Hearing Lab
- Publications

Hanif Ladak
Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics/Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Mechanical behaviour of the middle ear
- Design and testing of medical image processing algorithms
- Surgical training simulation with applications to the ear, nose and throat

Ewan Macpherson
Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
- Spatial and binaural hearing by hearing impaired and normally hearing listeners
- Effects of cochlear implant processing strategies on spatial hearing
- Active sound localization via listener head movements

Sheila Moodie
Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
- Integrated Knowledge Translation
- Moving evidence into clinical practice
- Changing practice behaviour / implementation science
- Family support & education for children with hearing loss

Lorne Parnes
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
- Vestibular disorders
- Hearing loss including cochlear implants
- Facial nerve disorders

Vijay Parsa
Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders and Faculty of Engineering
- Speech and audio processing
- Electroacoustic measures
- Sound quality estimation
- Handheld devices

David Purcell
Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
- Physiological measurement of auditory function using speech evoked potentials

Susan Scollie
Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
Director, National Centre for Audiology
- Pediatric amplification
- Hearing aid signal processing
- Outcome measures

Susan Stanton
Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
- The audiotory phenotype
- Physiological measures of the human auditory system function
- Genotype-phenotype relationships