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Dr Areej Asad

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Hearing loss in children and their speech profiles. 

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Dr Fabrice Bardy

University of Auckland

Research Interests: HEARLab Cortical Automatic Threshold Estimation (CATE), use of chatbot to deliver cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for tinnitus sufferers. 

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Dr Juliette Cheyne

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Examining development and function of the auditory and prefrontal cortex in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder and the use of miniaturised microscopes (‘miniscopes’) to understand behavioural changes in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. 

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Dr Donald Derrick

University of Canterbury

Research Interests: Phonetics, Speech Production, Speech Perception, Articulatory Phonetics, Research commercialization, Cognitive Science, Psychophysics

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Dr George Dodd

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Acoustics, meta-materials and their applications

Associate Investigators: Dr Kei Kobayashi

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A/P Kim Dirks

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Environmental physics, air pollution modelling, air pollutoin exposure, health-related quality of life, urban green space, environmental noise

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Dr Daniel Exeter

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), data zones, GIS, Big Data, Accessibility, Health inequalities, Spatial epidemiology, and Geovisualisation

Associate Investigator: Annie Chiang

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Sir Richard Faull 

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Neuroscience, Human neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Neurogenesis. 

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Prof. Cameron Grant

University of Auckland

Research Interests:  Prevention of disease and improvement in health by immunisation or by improved nutrition

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A/P Jeffrey Hamm

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Links between amusia (tone deafness) and language processing, human LTP

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A/P Michael Hautus

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Empirical quantitative research, including quantitative assessment of the functioning of sensory systems, modelling sensory judgements, and modelling cognitive processes involved in judgement

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A/P Rebecca Kelly

University of Canterbury

Research Interests: Qualitative and quantitative studies that examine how adults live with hearing problems and what prompts adults to seek services for hearing problems

Associate Investigator: Stephen Compton

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Prof. Ian Kirk

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Neural dynamics of cognitive and sensory processing. Human sensory system synaptic plasticity (LTP). Neurodynamics of music perception and production.

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Dr Maria Kleinstaeuber

University of Otago

Research Interests: Pathomechanisms and interventions in behavioural medicine; health psychology

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Dr Fabiana Kubke

Research Interests: Processing of auditory information in the brainstem, patterning of afferents in the developing rhombencephalon, evolution of vertebrate brains

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Dr Abin Kuruvilla-Mathew

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Electrophysiology, Speech Recognition, and Cognition

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Dr Michael Maslin

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Tinnitus, electrotroencephalography

Prof. Megan McAuliffe

University of Canterbury

Research Interests: Speech Perception, speech production, ageing, motor speech disorders

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A/P Judith McCool

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Global health, tobacco control, mass media, social determinants of health

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Dr Angus McMorland

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Movement neuroscience, biomechanics, computational neuroscience and modelling, and biomedical engineering

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A/P Johanna Montgomery

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Synapse function in developmental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders and normal and abnormal heart rhythm

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Prof. John Montgomery

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Sensory systems and neural circuitry

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Prof. Greg O’Beirne

University of Canterbury

Research Interests: Cochlear electrophysiology, electrophysiological measurement of hearing, Measurement of speech perception, audiological instrumentation

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Prof. Suzanne Purdy

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Communication disorders in adults and children, electrophysiological assessment of auditory function, choral singing therapy for people with neurological disease (aphasia & Parkinson’s disease), perception & production of speech prosody, sensory processing in mild cognitive impairment

Associate Investigators: Dr Joan Leung, Ashkan Alvand, Lucy Sparshott, Kim Wise

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Dr Ravi Reddy

Massey University 

Research Interests: Community Hearing Health and Hearing Health Promotion

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Prof. Papaarangi Reid

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Analysing disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous citizens as a means of monitoring government commitment to indigenous rights

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Prof. Grant Searchfield

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Tinnitus, Auditory Cognition and Assistive Technology

Associate Investigators: Christine Fok, Alehandrea Manuel,  Zohreh Doborjeh, Tin Aung Kyaw, Dunja Vajsakovic

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Prof. Paul Smith

University of Otago

Research Interests: Vestibular and auditory function and dysfunction, brain plasticity, tinnitus, biostatistics

Associate Investigators:Huey Tieng Tan, Fawzan Dinnunhan, Jessica McTavish, Renelyn Parra

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Dr Haruna Suzuki-Kerr

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Cellular physiology and pathophysiology of the cochlea, Cochlea synapse regulation by purinergic signaling, Drug delivery and diagnosis for inner ear diseases, Cellular physiology and gene expressions during development, Purinergic signaling in the cochlea, the lens and the retina

Associate Investigator: Seunga Han

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Prof. Denise Taylor

University of Otago

Research Interests: Neurological rehabilitation and health of older adults

Associate Investigator: Shikha Chaudhary

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Dr Rachael Taylor

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Vestibular physiology, application of vestibulo-occular and vestibulo-spinal testing for diagnosis of vestibular disorders, third mobile window syndrome, vestibular cognition

Associate Investigators: Dr Kim Wise, Roger Winton

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A/P Holly Teagle

University of Auckland, The Hearing House

Research Interests: Paediatric cochlear implants

Associate Investigator: Renee Orams

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A/P Paul Teal

Victoria University of Wellington

Research Interests: Development of algorithms and techniques of signal processing, and the application of these techniques in nuclear magnetic resonance, audio, communications, and biomedical devices.

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Dr Catherine Theys

University of Canterbury

Research Interests:  Neural basis of normal and disordered speech production and perception, Developmental & acquired stuttering, Speech production and perception, Acquired neurological speech and language disorders. 

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Prof. Peter Thorne

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Cochlear physiology and pathophysiology, otoacoustic emissions, mechanisms and diagnosis of sensorineural deafness, noise-induced hearing loss mechanisms and prevention

Associate Investigators: Dr Ravi Telang, Irene Cheung

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A/P Alain C. Vandal

University of Auckland

Research Interests:

Hearing and developmental outcomes for children by screening with otoacoustic emissions, Rehabilitation following brain injury, Cost-effectiveness of rehabilitative interventions. 

 

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A/P Srdjan Vlajkovic

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Hearing loss, inner ear therapeutics, adenosine receptors, purinergic signalling, neuroprotection, drug delivery to the inner ear.

Associate Investigators: Madhavi Pandya

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A/P Henry Waldvogel

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Neuroanatomy, human brain, neurodegenerative diseases

Associate Investigator: Charlotte Gordon

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Dr David Welch

University of Auckland

Research Interests: Psychoacoustics, biological impact of environmental noise, hearing health promotion

Associate Investigators: Eranthi L K, Katie McNemanin

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A/P Yiwen Zheng

University of Otago

Research Interests: Tinnitus, behaviour and electrophysiology, metabolic effects of acoustic trauma and tinnitus

Associate Investigators: Huey Tieng Tan, Fawzan Dinnunhan, Jessica McTavish, Renelyn Parra

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Our Clinicians

Dr Zahoor Ahmad

Counties Manukau DHB

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

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Angela Alexander

Auditory Processing Network LTD

Audiologist

Kaushi Ambepitiya

Dilworth Hearing 

Audiologist

Dr Michael Bergin

Auckland DHB

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

 

Dr Phil Bird

Canturbury DHB

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

Research Interests: Drug delivery to the inner ear; outcomes research in cochlear implantation; inner ear effects of middle ear surgical procedures

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Richard Bishop

Macro Audiology

Audiologist

Nicole Borland

University of Canterbury Clinic

Audiologist

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Gem Choi

Waikato DHB and Bay Audiology

Audiologist 

 

Dr Gavin Coad

University of Auckland Clinic

Audiologist and Professional Teaching Fellow

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Prof. Dirk de Ridder

Southland DHB

Neurosurgeon

Research Interests: Functional imaging guided invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation of phantom percepts and psychological disorders

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Prof. Richard Douglas

Auckland DHB

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

Research Interests: Rhinosinusitus, otitis media, microbiota

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Liz Fairgray

University of Auckland 

Teaching Fellow and Speech and Language Therapist

Nalisha Fernando

Dilworth Hearing 

Audiologist

Rebecca Garland

Capital and Coast DHB

Ear, Nose and Throat 

Charlotte Gordon

University of Auckland

Audiologist

 

Jonny Grady

University of Canterbury Clinic

Audiologist

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Belinda Han

Triton Hearing, Orewa

Audiologist

 

Duncan Hann

Dilworth Hearing

Audiologist

 

Derek Hadfield

The Hearing House

Audiologist

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Uta Heidtke

Bay Audiology

Audiologist

 Dr Renee Hislop

Auckland DHB 

Audiologist

 

Bill Keith

Sound Skills

Audiologist

 

Dr Andrea Kelly

Auckland DHB 

Audiologist

 

Latasi Koro

Bay Audiology

Audiologist (provisional) 

 

Lu-Jin Lee

Bay Audiology/Tairāwhiti DHB

Audiologist 

 

Samantha Lenz

Auditory Processing Network Limited

Audiologist

 

Katrina Light

Bay of Plenty DHB

Audiologist

 

Dr Alice Lindeman

Alice Lindeman Hearing

Audiologist

 

Tania Linford

University of Auckland Clinic

Audiologist

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Sepiuta Lopati

Ministry of Health, Tonga

Ear, Nose and Throat

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Tania Linford

Audiologist

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Anna McIntyre

Dilworth Hearing, Dunedin

Audiologist

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Sharon Meinsmith

University of Auckland

Audiologist and Professional Teaching Fellow

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Zay Melville

Triton Hearing 

Audiologist

Dr Nikki Mills

Auckland DHB

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

Research Interests:  Complex airway and swallowing disorders, sucking and swallowing motions during breasfeeding

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Ciara Moloney

University of Canterbury Clinic

Audiologist

 

Prof. Randall Morton

Counties Manukau DHB

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

Research Interests: Hearing screening, head and neck cancers

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Dr Michel Neeff

Auckland DHB

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

Research Interests: Otitis media, atresia, otoplasty, skull base osteomyelitis, unilateral hearing loss

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Peter O’Brien

Audiology Associates

Audiologist

 

Chunghyeon Oh

Audiologist, Fiji

 

Renee Orams

Hearing House

Research Assistant

 

MinChul Park

Bay Audiology, Manukau

Audiologist

 

Jemini Patel

Oticon 

Audiologist

 

Sione Pifeleti

Ministry of Health, Samoa

General Surgeon

 

Michelle Pokorny

University of Auckland

Audiologist

 

Wendy Poludore

Capital & Coast DHB

Audiologist

 

Natalie Price

Northland DHB

Audiologist

 

Katinka Proudfoot

Audiologist

 

Briana Putnam

Bay Audiology

Audiologist

 

Mincheol Roh

University of Auckland 

Teaching Fellow and Audiologist

 

Leslie Searchfield

Bay Audiology

Audiologist

 

Briana Putnam

Bay Audiology

Audiologist

 

Dr Alice Smith

University of Auckland

Audiologist and Professional Teaching Fellow

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Dr Alice Stringer

University of Otago, Wellington 

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon

 

Jacqui Taylor

Life Unlimited

Hearing Therapist

 

Gina Tillard

University of Canterbury

Director of Clinical Education

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Emma Towns

Hearing Life

Audiologist

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Joanna Wallace

Sound Skills 

Audiologist

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Phil Winter

South Canterbury DHB

Audiologist

Roger Winton

Audiologist

Dr Andrew Wood

Te Whatu Ora – Waikato and University of Auckland

Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, Senior Lecturer and Head of Specialty Surgery

Research Interests: Clinical and academic interest in sinus and nasal disease.

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Len Wu

Northland DHB

Audiologist