Using Empowerment to Better Manage the Outcomes of Hearing Aid Wearers

Brian Taylor
AuD

Brian Taylor is a Doctor of Audiology and Senior Director of Audiology for Signia. He is also the editor of Audiology Practices, a quarterly journal of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology, editor-at-large for Hearing Health and Technology Matters and adjunct instructor at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Taylor has authored several peer reviewed articles and textbooks and is a highly sought out lecturer. Brian has nearly 30 years of experience as both a clinician, business manager and university instructor.

Josefina Larsson
MSc

Josefina Larsson is a Senior Research Audiologist · ORCA Europe WSAudiology. She has a BSc in Audiology (Cert. Audiologist) from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, a BSc in Phonetics from Stockholm University and a MSc in Audiology from Örebro University.

After graduating in 2003, she started working clinically with hearing rehabilitation at a clinic in Stockholm. She has also been lecturing in audiology diagnostics at the Audiology program at Örebro University and prior to joining the team at ORCA Europe she worked with hearing-aid development as a research audiologist at a hearing-aid company in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In December 2006, she returned to Stockholm and joined the ORCA Europe research group. She now holds a position as Senior research audiologist. Her main research areas of interest are hearing rehabilitation, empowerment and patient-centered care.

Bec Bennett
PhD, AuD, MBUS

Bec is a clinical and research audiologist, with a focus on adult rehabilitation. She joined NAL in 2023 as a Senior Research Audiologist, bringing 18 years of clinical, managerial, industry, teaching and research experience. Bec’s training in psychology and counselling, paired with her experience in clinical management continues to shape her research directions. Her research focuses on best-practices for delivery of adult audiological rehabilitation, the social and emotional well-being impacts of hearing loss, and harnessing technology to augment and enhance audiology service delivery.

Bec completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours in Microbiology and Parasitology) in 2002 and a Masters of Audiology in 2004 at the University of Queensland. While working as a clinical audiologist she completed a Masters of Business through the University of Newcastle to develop her managerial and project management skills. Bec managed a chain of hearing clinics in Western Australia from 2009 to 2013, during which time she competed a Graduate Diploma of Counselling so that she could develop a training program to help her staff develop their skills for providing better social and emotional support to their clients. Bec completed her PhD (School of Medicine) through the University of Western Australia in 2019, and worked as a Research Lead at the Ear Science Institute Australia from 2019 to 2023. During this time, Bec was awarded two competitive post-doctoral research fellowships: (i) a Raine Medical Research Foundation Priming Fellowship 2020-2021, and (ii) a NHMRC Investigator Fellowship 2023-2028.