Investigators

Sumit Agrawal

Professor and Research Director, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

  • Neurotology and skull base surgery
  • Hearing loss
  • Cochlear implants
  • Lateral skull base surgery
  • Facial nerve disorders
  • Vestibular disorders
Prudence Allen

(retired)

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 and perception
  • Brain plasticity following hearing loss
Marlene Bagatto

Assistant Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders

  • Pediatric audiology
  • Infact hearing assessment and hearing loss management
  • Early hearing detection and intervention (EHDI) programs
  • Unilateral hearing loss in children
  • Bone conduction hearing devices
  • Best practice protocols
  • Implementation science
Olivia (Daub) Bailey

Olivia (Daub) Bailey

Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Early hearing detection and intervention systems and services, particularly spoken language outcome monitoring and service evaluation (developing sustainable data collection and retention systems)
Blake Butler

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

  • Functional and structural consequences of hearing loss and restoration with a focus on crossmodal plasticity and multisensory integration
  • Neural correlates of atypical sound salience attribution (Misophonia)
BJ Cunningham

BJ Cunningham

Assistant Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders

  • Early intervention
  • Implementation science
  • Program evaluation and quality improvement
Danielle Glista

Assistant Professor, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Connected hearing healthcare, ehealth, mhealth
  • Virtual hearing aid care
  • Aided outcome measurement
Ingrid Johnsrude

Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders and Department of Psychology; Director, Brain and Mind Institute

  • Knowledge-guided auditory perception
  • Individual differences in cognition and how they predict speech intelligibility and listening effort
Hanif Ladak

Professor, Departments of Medical Biophysics/Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Biophysics of the auditory periphery
  • Imaging and image processing algorithms
  • Individualized tuning of cochlear implants
  • Machine learning for audiology
  • Surgical training simulators
Ewan Macpherson

Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders

  • Spatial hearing and effects of listening through auditory prostheses
  • Vestibular and other multisensory contributions to dynamic spatial hearing and auditory spatial attention
  • Applications of virtual acoustics in auditory and audiological research
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
Janis Oram

Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders

  • Neural, auditory, and cognitive underpinnings of language development and disorders in children
  • Practice-based research to improve speech-language supports for preschoolers, with a special focus on hearing loss, autism, and other neurodevelopment disorders
Vijay Parsa

Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders and Faculty of Engineering

  • Speech and audio signal processing
  • Electroacoustic measurements
  • App development
David Purcell

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

  • Efficacy of hearing aid signal processing
  • Outcomes for infants, children, and adults who use hearing aids
  • Hearing aid verification strategies
  • Simulation in education
Jack Scott

Jack Scott

Assistant Professor/Clinical Supervisor in Audiology, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders

  • Tinnitus assessment and management
  • Amplification and Cognitive Health
  • Outreach and social justice in hearing healthcare
  • Clinical Reasoning
Susan Stanton

(retired)

Associate Professor, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders

  • The audiotory phenotype
  • Physiological measures of the human auditory system function
  • Genotype-phenotype relationships