Hearing & Balance News

Dr. Alida Naudé

Ph.D., (UP) AuD

Alida Naudé is a diagnostic, research, and training audiologist working at Amtronix Diagnostics and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She received her doctorate in audiology from the University of Pretoria in 2015, for which she received the CAAC Semantic Compaction Systems Award for the best research project. At the end of 2016, she completed her post doctorate fellowship at the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Special areas of expertise and research include ethics and personal development, evoked potentials, vestibular audiology and ototoxicity. She has authored more than 15 articles in accredited journals and has also served as the editor of a special journal edition about ethics in conjunction with international researchers. She also co-authored a research methodology book which is based on work emanating from both her PhD as well as from her post-doctoral work. She is a certified NLP and Life Coach with special interest in engaging emotional and creative intelligence to enhance the capacity of people to be aware of, control and express their emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. She is an active member of the Gauteng Baby Project, working towards the implementation of UNHS in South Africa and regularly presents workshops related to screening and diagnostic follow up audiological services. Currently she is busy with her graduate certificate in animal audiology.

Dr. Josephine Marriage

PhD

Josephine is Director of Chear, an independent centre for second opinion of hearing andamplification in infants and children in England, UK. She is a clinical scientist in paediatric audiology and conducts research around amplification strategies and speech testing in children. Josephine has developed and run training courses in clinical testing in European countries, China and Lebanon (Website is www.chears.co.uk) Josephine studied speech and language therapy at UCL prior to obtaining a masters qualification in audiology from Southampton University. She conducted her doctoral research into hyperacusis in Williams Syndrom under the supervision of Prof John Bamford at the University of Manchester.

Dr. Jenny Loo

Dr. Jenny Loo Hooi Yin, obtained her Master of Science in Audiology (Distinction) from the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, in 2004. She was awarded the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Research Scientist Fellowship in 2007 to pursue her Ph.D. at the Ear Institute, University College London, United Kingdom. Her Ph.D. research area was in auditory neuroscience. Dr. Loo is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, where she played an instrumental role in starting the inaugural MSc Audiology course in Singapore in 2013. Currently, she is the Program Director for this postgraduate Audiology program. Other than teaching Audiology students, she is also involved in teaching Speech and Language Pathology students at NUS as well as at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). Dr. Loo is not only an educator but a researcher. She has a wide range of research interests in the areas of auditory brain processing, pediatric hearing impairment, and population hearing health. She has published numerous research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and had held a few grants in the past as principal investigator. She also supervises students for research at MSc and Ph.D. levels. Clinically, Dr. Loo has a joint appointment at the National University Hospital as a Senior Principal Audiologist. She has extensive clinical experience assessing and managing children with hearing loss. One of her areas of clinical expertise is in cochlear implant management, and she is also well sought-after for her expertise in the diagnosis of Central Auditory Processing Disorders in children at national and international levels. Dr. Loo’s passion for Audiology extends beyond her clinical skill. She champions community audiology projects by helping the department to expand audiological services in the community through Mobile Hearing Clinics and Satellite Hearing Clinics. At a national level, Dr. Loo is appointed as the chairperson for the Allied Health Professional (Audiology) panel at the Ministry of Health (2016 till present), overseeing the development of audiologist professionals, and promoting hearing health and public awareness in Singapore.