November 8, 2013

Dr. Kathy Pichora-Fuller
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
The connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline

Biography

Dr. Kathy Pichora-Fuller is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Her basic research program concerns auditory aging and her clinical research concerns audiological rehabilitation for older adults. She has earned an international reputation for her interdisciplinary approach in linking research on auditory and cognitive processing during communication in everyday life.

Prior to her appointment at the University of Toronto, Dr. Pichora-Fuller worked as a Clinical Audiologist and the Audiology Supervisor at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto before she undertook doctoral studies. She previously taught at the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where Dr. Pichora-Fuller was also the Director of the Institute for Hearing Accessibility Research. She continues to be an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at UBC.

She is an accomplished researcher, having held a CHIR Mid-Career Award in Aging Research,  has been appointed as an Adjunct Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute where she is a researcher on the “Communication Team” working on iDAPT (Intelligent Design for Adaptation, Participation, and Technology: Innovative Rehabilitation for People in Challenging Environments), funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation. Previously she sat as Director on the Board of the Canadian Academy of Audiology and was President of the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.