Uniting WA Partnership Provides Hearing Support for Vulnerable Clients
Making ear and hearing care a reality for all In honour of World Hearing Day and this year’s theme of “Changing Mindsets: Empower yourself to make ear and hearing care…
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Lions Hearing Clinic Mandurah Moves to Halls Head: Expanded Services & New Location
Lions Hearing Clinic Mandurah has a new home in Halls Head We are excited to announce that Lions Hearing Clinic Mandurah has relocated to Centuria Halls Head Central Shopping Centre,…
Usher Syndrome researcher takes off prestigious award
Ear Science Research Fellow, Dr Abbie Francis, is a young researcher to watch! Her drive to help patients with a rare genetic condition had secured her nomination for the Ana…
How do hearing aid owners acquire hearing aid management skills?
Dr Bec Bennett and colleagues have been published in the American Academy of Audiology for their article on the acquisition of hearing aid management skills. The team conducted a qualitative…
The Sound Exchange in Alice Springs
A number of clinicians from Lions Hearing Clinic attended The Sound Exchange conference in Alice Springs this year. Spread over three days, The Sound Exchange featured a range of hands-on…
Furthering our international networks in 3D printing
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Filippo Valente and our collaborator from Deakin University, Dr Ben Allardyce, attended the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Symposium (TERMIS) in Rhodes, Greece. Filippo presented…
Ear Science at the annual Science on the Swan Conference
The annual Science on the Swan conference was held in the first week of June. This year Ear Science CEO Sandra Bellekom co-chaired the event and Adjunct Professor Rob Eikelboom…
Ear Science trains Curtin’s first wave of medical students
Curtin University’s first-ever medical students are well into their studies, preparing to move their learning from the classroom to the clinic. Ear and hearing care is a vital part of…
A whole new way to ‘try before you buy’: the future of testing hearing aids
Two Lions Hearing Clinics audiologists waited with anticipation as European hearing aid manufacturer, Unitron, unveiled their latest innovation to a global audience in Amsterdam. Audiologists Jordan Bishop and Siew Moon…
Training tomorrow’s doctors to tune in to hearing loss: first cohort of medical students trained in 2019
Ear Science Institute Australia hosted its first student training day for 2019 in March, training 100 future doctors to better support patients with hearing loss. As part of the dedicated…
Collaborating with the World Health Organization for World Hearing Day
World Hearing Day is an annual advocacy event held on the 3rd of March and kicking off Hearing Awareness Week, which runs until the 9th of March. The day aims…
Research featured in Audiology Now
Two of our research fellows, Dr Elaine Wong and Dr Abbie Francis, published an article in a recent edition of Audiology Now, the magazine of Audiology Australia. “In this article,…
Research presented at SWAN 2019
The Symposium of WA Neuroscience 2019 (SWAN 2019) was held at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in mid-September, and a number of Ear Science researchers attended. Several team…
Helping us, helping you
The Ear Science Clinical Research team have had a couple of helpful volunteers assisting with key projects in the last few months. Jennifer Marks has been working with Dr Dona…
