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Dr Dimity Dornan

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AO, Associate Professor UQ, PhD UQ, HonDUniv USQ, BSpThy, FSPAA, CpSp, LSLS Cert AVT

Dr Dimity Dornan, AO is the Executive Director and Founder of Hear and Say, Australia.

Hear and Say was established in 1992 by Dimity with just six children. The organisation now provides services and programs to over 600 children, young adults and families across six centres as well as e-Auditory-Verbal Therapy and e-Audiology programs for rural and remote areas.

Read more about Dimity on the Hear and Say website here.

Published: 1st February, 2016

Updated: 19th February, 2018

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Dr Carol Flexer

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PhD, CCC-A; LSLS Cert. AVT

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Audiology, The University of Akron, Ohio

Carol Flexer received her doctorate in audiology from Kent State University in 1982. She was at The University of Akron for 25 years as a Distinguished Professor of Audiology in the School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Special areas of expertise include paediatric and educational audiology. She continues to lecture extensively nationally and internationally and has authored more than 150 publications.

Dr. Flexer’s talks, seminars, and workshops focus on the development and expansion of listening, speaking and literacy skills in infants and children, including those with all degrees of hearing loss. She is licensed as an audiologist and holds the CCC/A and the LSLS Cert. AVT.

Published: 23rd February, 2016

Updated: 19th February, 2018

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Professor Andrew King

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MA, MMath, PhD

Andrew King is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Oxford. He heads the Auditory Neuroscience Group in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and is also the Director of the Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Programme in Neuroscience at Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College. He received his undergraduate training in physiology at King’s College London and a PhD from the National Institute for Medical Research. He then moved to Oxford, where he has been supported by fellowships from the Science and Engineering Research Council, the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine and the Wellcome Trust. He has also been a visiting scientist at the Eye Research Institute in Boston. He is a past winner of the Wellcome Prize in Physiology and, in 2011, was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Andrew’s research employs an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the neural basis of auditory perception and multisensory integration. He is particularly interested in the adaptive processes that take place in the brain to allow accurate hearing to be maintained in different acoustical conditions. This involves studying both short-term changes that help to compensate for the presence of background sounds and the longer-term plasticity induced at higher levels of the auditory system as a result of learning or by hearing loss.

Published: 29th February, 2016

Updated: 19th February, 2018

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Graham Louden-Carter

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BA Hons MBPsS, Executive Fellow, Henley Business School

Graham Louden-Carter is an experienced international leader, coach and developer of people. He retired in 2008 after a long career with Diageo PLC as a senior Human Resources executive, having held roles as a member of business leadership teams in Europe, USA and Latin America. Graham now runs his own leadership development and coaching company and is also an Executive Fellow in executive education and member of the visiting faculty at Henley Business School.

Published: 1st March, 2016

Updated: 19th February, 2018

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Dr Josephine Marriage

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PhD MSc BSc RHAD, Director of Chear

Josephine Marriage is a clinical scientist in audiology and registered hearing-aid dispenser.

Dr Marriage has worked with children with hearing loss and cochlear implants for 20 years. She was head of paediatric audiology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, from 1993 to 1999. For the past eight years she has worked with Brian Moore, professor of auditory perception at Cambridge University, devising new ways of assessing hearing and programming hearing aids to suit the needs of adults and children. She is also involved in training hearing professionals throughout the UK and teaches at University College London.

Dr Marriage was awarded a PhD in hyperacusis in Williams Syndrome from Manchester University. She also has an audiology MSc from the University of Southampton and a Speech Sciences degree from University College London. She received the George Harris Award for her contribution to hearing aid audiology in 2009 and is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a hearing aid dispenser. Chear share our London office.

Published: 16th March, 2016

Updated: 19th February, 2018

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Dr Kaukab Rajput

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FRCS, FRCP, MSc Consultant Audiological Physician

Dr Kaukab Rajput is an expert in diagnosis of hearing loss in children with complex problems. She has worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for over twelve years and currently leads the cochlear Implant Department.

After completing her training in ear, nose and throat surgery and obtaining FRCS in 1992, Dr Rajput took a training post at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, initially as a registrar and then senior registrar in audiological medicine.

Dr Rajput obtained her MSc in audiological medicine in 1995, and became a consultant in 1999. In 2009 she was granted FRCP by the Royal College of Physician London.

Published: 17th March, 2016

Updated: 19th February, 2018

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Lynda Shaw

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BSc OT-UCT

State registered occupational therapist

More information coming soon.

Published: 18th March, 2016

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Dr Peter Savundra

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FRCP DCH MA MSc

Dr Peter Savundra is a consultant Audiovestibular physician at The Portland Hospital, London.

Peter’s special interests include Vertigo & Dizziness, Hearing loss & Tinnitus and well and Balance & Gait Disorders.

We’re very pleased to have Dr Savundra on board our team of advisors.

Published: 18th March, 2016

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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Alexandra Rehak

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MA, BSc Data Advisor

Alexandra is an independent strategy consultant with over 20 years of experience in innovative data analysis and strategy development, primarily for the communications and ICT sectors. She has extensive expertise in data usage and statistical modelling, database design and data collection methodologies, and data presentation and interpretation. She first linked up with AVUKthrough ‘big data’ charity DataKind UK, and is currently working with us to develop our approach to using statistics and analysis to deepen understanding of AV therapy outcomes. Alexandra was most recently a Partner and Head of Research at international consultancy Analysys Mason, and prior to that held senior roles at companies including PA Consulting Group and Motorola. She started her career as a Research Assistant to Dr. Howard Gardner at Harvard University, working on experimental neuropsychology initiatives around language and cognition in stroke patients and primary and middle school pupils. Alexandra holds an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science from Brown University.

Published: 18th March, 2016

Updated: 13th April, 2016

Author: Rebecca Crombleholme

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