Dr Priya Carling, AuD RHAD, Director and Consultant Audiologist – Kent Hearing

Dr Priya Carling, trained as a Speech-language therapist and audiologist in South Africa, and completed her AuD through an American university in Florida.

She has over 20 years clinical and management experience in both the UK private sector and the NHS.  She was head of Audiology, Neurophysiology and Speech therapy at the BUPA Cromwell Hospital, London and was Head of Audiology for East Kent Audiology Services.  She then spent 7 years as Director of Education, Principle Investigator and Senior Lecturer at UCL’s Ear Institute in London.  Her research experience includes clinical trials of interventions (device and pharmacological) for hearing loss and tinnitus and her interests include hearing loss prevention and early intervention, and education for improving patient outcomes through high quality service delivery.In 2017 Priya set up her own practice Kent Hearing, based in Kings Hill, Kent.  The practice offers a local clinical service with services including earwax removal, hearing testing, hearing aids, tinnitus management and paediatric services. Priya is also lead audiologist at West Kent ENT Community service. She is a member of the scientific advisory board for the BEAR project in Denmark and is a sections editor for a clinical publication ENT and Audiology News. 

I am the Chief Audiologist, and Head of Department:  Speech Therapy and Audiology at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in Durban (KZN) since 2006.  I have been working for the past 18years in the Department of Health, and 2 years ago began

My Master of Public Health degree via the University of KwaZulu-Natal.  My special interests in the field of Audiology include Vestibular assessment, Newborn Hearing Screening, and Cochlear Implants.

In 2019, I had been elected as the Chairperson of the National Speech Therapy and Audiology Forum. 

Dr Gyl Kasewurm earned her AuD from Central Michigan University and has owned and operated Professional Hearing Services (PHS) in Saint Joseph, Michigan for over thirty years. Her single office generates over 3 million dollars in annual revenue despite being located in a small community. The unique practice is known as a benchmark for the patient experience. Dr Kasewurm is a well-known author with a guide for practice management being released in April of 2019. A sought after and entertaining speaker, Kasewurm prides herself on her business advice that assist business owners on developing a million dollar practice.  Her website DrGyl.com and her Women of Wonder Facebook group provide advice and tips to help others survive and thrive in these unprecedented times.  Never a disappointment, Dr Kasewurm has entertained audiences across the world with her captivating stories and advice on how to take a practice from Fine to Fabulous!

Dr Krishan Ramdoo started his Medical career in 2009 and after initially working in the Oxford University hospitals he went on to become an Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon in London before embarking on his PhD at UCL, where his area of interest became the impact of hearing loss globally. It was through his experience with his patients that he saw the pathway to access hearing health needed to change and the idea for TympaHealth was born. 

Dr Krish is an international speaker, researcher, educator and clinical entrepreneur. His development of the Tympa system has earned him international recognition and accolades such as the prestigious Royal Society of Medicine prize for innovation in ENT, the Rowena Ryan prize for research into ENT and the Hartopp-Dixon Prize ENT prize early in his career. 

He has been presented at the House of Commons and 10 Downing Street helping bring hearing & ear care onto the agenda. He is the Clinical lead for sensory health at NHS England and was also one of the first clinicians to be appointed to NHS England’s National Clinical Entrepreneur Program which is now the largest entrepreneurial training program in the world. TympaHealth is now the example for innovation within that program as a formal NHS spin out. He has a passion for innovation and has subsequently been appointed as a mentor on the program.

Lebogang Ramma is an Associate Professor in the Division of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University Cape Town. His area of interest is epidemiology of hearing loss and prevention of acquired hearing loss. He has published several peer reviewed articles in these two areas. He has also presented his work at local and international conferences.

Astrid van Wieringen (PhD 1995, Univ of Amsterdam, NL) is full professor at Experimental ORL, Dept Neurosciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) where she combines research and teaching. She is the chair of the 5-year program Speech-language Pathology and Audiological Sciences (faculty of Medicine). Her interdisciplinary research focuses on understanding the neural consequences of deprived auditory input, and optimizing hearing adults and children with hearing aids and/or cochlear implants. She is associate editor of Ear&Hearing, specialty chief editor for Interventions for Rehabilitation (of Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences), board member of the International Society Audiology, secretary-treasurer of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA), and (founding) board member of the Belgian Scientific society of Audiology (B Audio).