Senior Audiologist
Private Sector
Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months
- Selection, Fitting, and Programming of hearing aids like Phonak and Unitron using Computer based programming software in accordance to protocols.
- Focus on dispensing or sale of High end Hearing Instruments.
- Perform outcome measures by Aided Audiometry and using standardized questionnaires. Administer the questionnaires to the patient pre and post hearing aid fitting in accordance with protocols
- To supervise my junior audiologist who performs routine Audiological test procedures like PTA, Speech Audiometry, Tympanometry, OAE, VRA, and ABR.
- Involved in a Project named PATH (Preschool Access To Hearing), a Hearing Screening Program for School children.
- Hearing Screening Program for adults as part of Hearing Conservation Programme for employees in Industries
- Educate school teachers and parents the importance of conducting regular hearing screening programs in school
- Educate or create awareness to the general public about hearing impairment and methods of rehabilitation through camps.
- Candidacy selection for Cochlear Implantation and Counselling on the same
- Mapping and troubleshooting of Nucleus, and Medel Cochlear Implants
- Instruct and guide the patient in operation and maintenance of external Speech processor and hearing aids respectively, adapting the instructions and approach to accommodate the patients’ communication and physical difficulties.
- Participate in any on-going research and development of new techniques within the service
- Central Auditory Processing Disorders test administration through standardized test procedures and LiSN- S (Listening in Spatial Noise-Sentence test) from Phonak
24 March 2008 - 24 December 2010
Senior Diagnostic & Cochlear Implant Audiologist,
Madras ENT Research Foundation (P) Ltd, Chennai, India
I have worked with Dr.Mohan Kameswaran, who is a pioneer in Cochlear Implantation in the whole of Asia.
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: - Performed unsupervised all standard hearing tests like PTA, Speech Audiometry, Tympanometry, OAE, ABR, for both adults and some older clients (>5 years of age) following professional and standard protocols.
- Performed Evoked Potentials like ECochG, LLR on adults and EABR on both pediatric and adult population.
- Provided patient specific counselling with regard to management of hearing loss
- New born Hearing Screening program for early identification and intervention
- As a Cochlear Implant Audiologist, I have dealt with approximately 120 CI Recipients with Cochlear/Med-el/Advanced Bionics.
- Provide clinical training to Junior Staff and students from MERF ISH
- CI Counseling, its functioning, advantages of CI over hearing aids, benefits of bilateral Implantation.
- Intra-operative procedures like Telemetry, ESRT, and NRT/NRI
- Have performed Post - operative procedures like ESRT and EABR on very few
- Initial activation of Cochlear Implant or hook up, three weeks after surgery
- Reprogramming/Mapping of CI
- CI-Maintenance and care of the speech Processor and trouble shooting.
- Maintain patient record including test results and stock of Cochlear Implants onto a computerized patient management system and database
19 February 2007 - 18 February 2008
Clinical Audiologist, The Speech and Hearing Clinic, Chennai, India
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: - Involved in conducting complete diagnostic tests on all age groups. Test that were performed were PTA, Speech Audiometry, Special tests like SISI, TDT, ABLB.
- Tympanometry including Reflexometry and ARL have been performed.
- Diagnostic evaluation for pediatric tests like BOA and VRA.
- Evoked Potentials like ABR, on both pediatric and geriatric population for hearing evaluation and Neuro-Diagnostic evaluation respectively.
- EP like VEMP and CHAMP (Cochlear Analysis Masking Procedure) on adults
- Oto Acoustic Emissions (OAE) and ASSR
- New born hearing screening program
- Hearing conservation Program for adults exposed to noise at work environment - its impact on hearing and conducting periodical hearing evaluation and the methods to protect hearing from further damage.
- Hearing aid selection and counseling on its benefits and limitations.
04 April 2002 - 15 March 2006
Audiologist and Speech Therapist, Dr.Thomas ENT Clinic, Doha, Qatar
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: - Performing Audiological tests like Pure Tone Audiometry, Speech Audiometry, Immittance Audiometry with acoustic reflexes, and Auditory Brainstem Response
- Hearing aid selection
- Hearing screening program for school children
- Hearing screening program on adults for employment reasons
- Creating awareness to school teachers about the importance of hearing screening program in school children.
- Evaluation on children with Speech/Language disorders
- Evaluation on adults with voice and fluency disorders
- Therapy on children with Speech/Language disorder
- Counselling
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