Christina Bryant
Emma Laird
Jaime Leigh
Jaime Leigh, PhD, is a senior clinical and research audiologist who co-ordinates the Paediatric Cochlear Implant Program, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. Joining the Cochlear Implant Clinic in 2001, her clinical role involves supporting adults, children and their families through the pre and post-operative phases of the cochlear implantation process. Jaime holds a Research Fellowship at the University of Melbourne and is passionate about research which directly influences clinical practice. Jaime has published in a diverse range of cochlear implant areas including; candidacy, speech and language outcomes, benefits of early implantation and management of patients receiving bilateral cochlear implants.Lisa Singer
Lisa has Bachelor of Biomedical Science degree at Monash University and Masters of Clinical Audiology degree at the University of Melbourne. Lisa has over ten years of experience in Audiology, gaining valuable paediatric experience working at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Great Ormond Street Hospital in London before joining the Cochlear team working both within the Clinical Affairs team and the Sales team.Nina Swiderski
Nina has worked in public health, private practice and clinical education since graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1995. Nina began working with cochlear implant recipients in 1996 while employed at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital and has been involved with hearing implant services in South Australia since 1998. Nina also has extensive experience in diagnostic audiology; has been a member of National and State-wide working groups; and has been an executive member of Audiology Australia (SA Branch). Nina is an inaugural member of the SACIC team, has recently completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and holds the position of Clinical Manager.Annemarie Lindner
Emma Scanlan
Jane Brew
Michael Polkinghorne
Nick Baulderstone
Katie Ekberg
Dr Katie Ekberg is a Research Fellow in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on the psychosocial issues related to hearing impairment and understanding and improving practices in audiology services for both adults and children. A key part of her research involves expanding the implementation of patient- and family-centred care in audiology clinical practice. She has specific expertise in the methodology of conversation analysis for analysing real-life, video-recorded social and clinical interaction.Alexandra Kirkwood
Alexandra has held a clinical position with Neurosensory for six years specialising in diagnostic audiology, complex adult rehab and implants. Alexandra loves the challenge of improving client outcomes, especially those with complex needs. Alexandra took a locum year in 2019 to travel around Australia and had the pleasure of providing outreach work to indigenous populations with Northern Territory Health. Alexandra studied her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Science with a Masters in Audiology at the University of Queensland.Vidya Raghavan
Vidya has a Doctor of Audiology degree from the USA and Bachelors and Masters degrees in Audiology and Speech Rehabilitation from India. She has nearly 20 years of experience as an audiologist working with Hearing Australia and National Hearing Care, predominantly in adult hearing rehabilitation. Training and education has been a significant part of the different positions she has held, including that of National Audiology Training Manager, and she has supervised and trained several audiologists and audiometrists over the years. Vidya has been with Cochlear ANZ for over 2 year and currently works as a Clinical Account Manager based in Brisbane supporting implanting clinics as well as supporting non implanting clinics with education and information around implantable solutions.Bianca Monger
Bianca studied her undergraduate degree in Psychological Science and her Masters of Audiology at the University of Queensland. Prior to her current role, Bianca worked in rehabilitative audiology for seven years where she also supervised and trained clinicians. As a manager at Hearing Australia she supports clinicians to deliver services in paediatric, adult, and complex adult rehabilitation. Bianca is passionate about client-centred care and supporting clinicians to improve client outcomes.Lisa Saulsman
Dr Lisa Saulsman is a registered clinical psychologist. Lisa worked most of her career in public mental health at the Centre for Clinical Interventions (Perth), providing individual and group cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) for people experiencing complex and enduring depressive and anxiety disorders. In addition to her clinical work, Lisa has been heavily involved in developing new CBT interventions, training mental health professionals in CBT, as well as authoring online CBT self-help resources covering numerous issues (i.e., worry, self-esteem, distress intolerance, self-compassion, procrastination, health anxiety, and body dysmorphia). These popular online resources are freely available to consumers and clinicians alike. Lisa now holds the position of Senior Lecturer/Deputy Clinic Director (Robin Winkler Clinic), in the postgraduate clinical psychology program within the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia.Sue Day
Andre Wedekind
Siew-Moon Lim
Azadeh Ebrahimi Madiseh
Dayse Távora-Vieira