Speakers


Speakers The Ida Institute Faculty is a key component of our unique collaborative approach. Faculty members help guide each Seminar Series by providing subject matter expertise on the topic at hand. In addition, we collaborate with Faculty members to develop insightful educational material that spreads knowledge to the hearing care community. We strive to recruit respected experts in diverse disciplines spanning a variety of different background. Our past Faculty members have included academics as well as representatives from the hearing care industry. Please see our present and past faculty members below. AdamBeckman Head of Audiology Services at the Plymouth (UK) Hospitals NHS Trust Read more >> TheresaChisolm Professor and Chair of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of South Florida. Read more >> BerthDanermark Professor of Sociology at The Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University and Örebro University. Read more >> LouiseHickson Professor and Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Co-Director of the Communication Disability Center at the University of Queensland. Read more >> SarahLewis Managing Director of Appreciating Change, a consulting company focused on change management and business psychology. Read more >> PatriciaMcCarthy Professor and Program Director of the Doctor of Audiology Program of Rush University. Read more >> ChristopherLind Audiologist, Speech Pathologist, University educator. Faculty member of Ida Institute's Living Well seminar series. Read more >> Jean-PiereGagne A professor at Université de Montreal, Canada, interested in the non-amplification aspects of audiological rehabilitation. Read more >> LesleyJones Qualitative researcher in deafness, hearing impairment including ethnicity and narrative based medicine. Read more >> DavidFabry Chief at the University of Miller School of Medicine in Miami. Past President of the American Academy of Audiology. Read more >> JillPreminger Dr. Jill Preminger has an active clinical research program which is focused on adult audiologic rehabilitation. Read more >> JosephJ.Montano Chief of Audiology and Speech Language Pathology, NY Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center Read more >> KristinaEnglish Has authored four books, twelve chapters, and over 100 papers. Active with the American Academy of Audiology. Read more >> LorraineGailey Completed a degree in psychology and PhD in the psychology of lipreading at Queens University Belfast. Read more >> JohnGreerClark An Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati and president of Clark Audiology. Read more >> HarveyAbrams Director of Research at Walter Reed Army Medical Center at the VA Healthcare System Medical Center in Bay Pines. Read more >> SamTrychin Conducts training programs, classes, and workshops for people who are hard of hearing and professionals who provide services. Read more >> TjørnhøjThomsen Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She lives outside of Copenhagen with her family. Read more >> ChristinedePlacido Lecturer and program leader for Audiology Department at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Read more >> DafyddStephens Professor S.D.G. Dafydd Stephens, Honorary Professor of Audiological medicine at the Welsh Hearing Institute, Cardiff University. Read more >>