Research
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Connected Hearing Healthcare Lab
About the Lab
Lab Director
The Connected Hearing Healthcare Lab focuses on technology-enabled hearing healthcare and the delivery of remote audiological services. Current research efforts are focused on evaluating clinician readiness and other implementation factors related to the delivery of remote hearing aid fitting services, as well as the development and evaluation of real-world survey tools to investigate hearing aid performance with children.
Lab Members

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

Robin O'Hagan, CDA, BA
Research Assistant
Students

Danielle Leah DiFabio
PhD/M.Cl.Sc (candidate), BA
Research Assistant

Luxshmi Nageswaran
Undergraduate Research Student

Simrin Pardal
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Janani Rajendra
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Chris Boakye-Gyan
M.Cl.Sc (candidate), BA
Research Assistant
Alumni

Ben Tran
MSc Candidate, BA
- USRI publication: Tran, B., Rafinejad-Farahani, B., Moodie, S., O’Hagan, R., & Glista, D. (2021). A scoping review of virtual focus group methods used in rehabilitation sciences. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211042227

Luisa Natalia Pérez Vélez
MSc
- MSc thesis: An Exploration of Audiologists' Readiness to Adopt Connected Hearing Healthcare for Remote Hearing Aid Fitting

Kyla Munoz Galarza
B.H.Sc, M.H.Sc (Candidate in Audiology at Ottawa University)
- Independent study publication: Munoz Galarza, K., O’Hagan, R., & Glista, D. (2021). Considerations for pivoting to virtual audiology research. The Hearing Journal, 74(7), 18–20. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.HJ.0000766236.62940.8c

Nilram Jalilian
BA, Honors specialization in Biology
Research Assistant
Participate in a Research Study
Please contact the Lab Director Danielle Glista or Research Assistant Robin O’Hagan for information on participating in a connected lab study: daglista@nca.uwo.ca, rohagan6@uwo.ca
Publications
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