Karen Gordon

Karen Gordon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and a Graduate Faculty Member in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. She works at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as a Scientist in the Research Institute and Director of Research in Archie’s Cochlear Implant Laboratory.

Karen received her Ph.D. (2005) and B.Sc (1991) at the University of Toronto and her M.A. in Audiology (1993) at Northwestern University. She is a registered audiologist (reg. CASLPO, CCC-A), a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), and a member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) and the Society of Ear, Nose and Throat Advances in Children (SENTAC).

Karen’s research focuses on auditory development in children who are deaf and use cochlear implants. Her early work examined the role of a unilateral implant to promote changes in the auditory nerve, brainstem, thalamus and cortex and she is presently interested in the effects of bilateral cochlear implants in these areas. Karen has been awarded grant funding for her work on binaural auditory development in children receiving bilateral cochlear implants from both the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the SickKids Foundation.