Our Researchers
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Dr Areej Asad
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Hearing loss in children and their speech profiles.
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.
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.
Dr Donald Derrick
University of Canterbury
Research Interests: Phonetics, Speech Production, Speech Perception, Articulatory Phonetics, Research commercialization, Cognitive Science, Psychophysics
Dr George Dodd
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Acoustics, meta-materials and their applications
Associate Investigators: Dr Kei Kobayashi
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
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
Sir Richard Faull
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Neuroscience, Human neurodegenerative diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Neurogenesis.
Prof. Cameron Grant
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Prevention of disease and improvement in health by immunisation or by improved nutrition
A/P Jeffrey Hamm
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Links between amusia (tone deafness) and language processing, human LTP
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
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
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.
Dr Maria Kleinstaeuber
University of Otago
Research Interests: Pathomechanisms and interventions in behavioural medicine; health psychology
Dr Fabiana Kubke
Research Interests: Processing of auditory information in the brainstem, patterning of afferents in the developing rhombencephalon, evolution of vertebrate brains
Dr Abin Kuruvilla-Mathew
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Electrophysiology, Speech Recognition, and Cognition
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
A/P Judith McCool
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Global health, tobacco control, mass media, social determinants of health
Dr Angus McMorland
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Movement neuroscience, biomechanics, computational neuroscience and modelling, and biomedical engineering
A/P Johanna Montgomery
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Synapse function in developmental disorders, neurodegenerative disorders and normal and abnormal heart rhythm
Prof. John Montgomery
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Sensory systems and neural circuitry
Prof. Greg O’Beirne
University of Canterbury
Research Interests: Cochlear electrophysiology, electrophysiological measurement of hearing, Measurement of speech perception, audiological instrumentation
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
Dr Ravi Reddy
Massey University
Research Interests: Community Hearing Health and Hearing Health Promotion
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
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
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
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
Prof. Denise Taylor
University of Otago
Research Interests: Neurological rehabilitation and health of older adults
Associate Investigator: Shikha Chaudhary
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
A/P Holly Teagle
University of Auckland, The Hearing House
Research Interests: Paediatric cochlear implants
Associate Investigator: Renee Orams
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.
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.
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
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.
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
A/P Henry Waldvogel
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Neuroanatomy, human brain, neurodegenerative diseases
Associate Investigator: Charlotte Gordon
Dr David Welch
University of Auckland
Research Interests: Psychoacoustics, biological impact of environmental noise, hearing health promotion
Associate Investigators: Eranthi L K, Katie McNemanin
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
Our Clinicians
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
Richard Bishop
Macro Audiology
Audiologist
Gem Choi
Waikato DHB and Bay Audiology
Audiologist
Dr Gavin Coad
University of Auckland Clinic
Audiologist and Professional Teaching Fellow
Prof. Dirk de Ridder
Southland DHB
Neurosurgeon
Research Interests: Functional imaging guided invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation of phantom percepts and psychological disorders
Prof. Richard Douglas
Auckland DHB
Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon
Research Interests: Rhinosinusitus, otitis media, microbiota
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
Belinda Han
Triton Hearing, Orewa
Audiologist
Duncan Hann
Dilworth Hearing
Audiologist
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
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
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
Dr Michel Neeff
Auckland DHB
Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon
Research Interests: Otitis media, atresia, otoplasty, skull base osteomyelitis, unilateral hearing loss
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 Stringer
University of Otago, Wellington
Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon
Jacqui Taylor
Life Unlimited
Hearing Therapist
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.
Len Wu
Northland DHB