Kathy Pichora-Fuller

Kathy Pichora-Fuller is a Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. She is also an Adjunct Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest, and a Guest Professor in the Linneaus Centre for Hearing and Deafness Research at Linköping University in Sweden.

She completed a B.A. in Linguistics at the University of Toronto (1977) and a M.Sc. in Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia (1980). She worked as a clinical audiologist and then the Supervisor of Audiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and then returned to complete a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Toronto (1991). Until 2002, she was a faculty member in the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Hearing Accessibility Research at UBC.

Her research is funded by NSERC and CIHR and she is the hearing expert for the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging. She is now translating her lab-based research on auditory and cognitive aging to address the needs of older adults who suffer from both hearing and cognitive impairments.

She serves on the editorial boards of Ear and Hearing and the International Journal of Audiology. She was President of the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists (1984-87), has served on the executive of the Canadian Academy of Audiology (2002-2004) and has been the Canadian representative to the International Society of Audiology (2004-2010; 2014-2016). She is a co-chair of the World Congress of Audiology to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in September 2016.

The American Academy of Audiology awarded her the 2014 International Award.