Grant Review Panel

The Grant Review Panel’s purpose is to evaluate research funding applications, ensuring that any grant awarded by CHS Global Partnerships for Research & Innovation will support research of the highest quality. Our Grant Review Panel is comprised of established national and global researchers focused on our four research areas of focus: Hearing Health, Hearing Science, Deaf Studies, and Quality of Life. 

CHS Global Partnerships for Research & Innovation is grateful to all its grant review panelists for voluntarily contributing their time and expertise to the crucial task of reviewing grant applications to ensure we are selecting the absolute best projects to fund. 

Rashid Abu-Ghazalah, PhD
Associate Professor
Biotechnology Engineering
McMaster University
Canada
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Melissa Anderson, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Massachusetts Medical School
United States of America
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Samira Anderson, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
University of Maryland
United States of America
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Sam Atcherson, PhD
Professor and Director of Audiology Research
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
United States of America
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Jordan Axt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Canada
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Marlene Bagatto, AuD, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Western University
Canada
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Eldre Beukes, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Anglia Ruskin University
United Kingdom  
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Tracey Bone, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Work
University of Manitoba
Canada
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Robert Burkard, PhD
Professor
Department of Rehabilitation Science
University of Buffalo
United States of America
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Blake Butler, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology 
Western University
Canada
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Jennifer Campos, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
Canada
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Bruce Carleton, Pharm. D.
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
University of British Columbia
Canada
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Marshall Chasin, AuD
Adjunct Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto
Canada
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Tom Dening, MD, PhD
Professor
Dementia Research
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
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Viji Easwar, PhD
Hearing Scientist and Paediatric Audiologist
National Acoustics Laboratories
Australia
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Jason Ellis, PhD
Professor
Department of Psychology
Northumbria University
United Kingdom
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Kristina English, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Audiology
University of Akron
United States of America
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Charlotte Enns, PhD
Professor 
Faculty of Education
University of Manitoba
Canada
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Marc Fagelson, PhD
Professor
Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology
East Tennessee State University
United States of America
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Melanie Ferguson, PhD
Associate Professor
Curtin enAble Institute
Curtin University
Australia
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Phillippe Fournier, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Rehabilitation Sciences
Laval University
Canada
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Jason Galster, PhD
Senior Director of Clinical Research
Advanced Bionics
United States of America
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Matt Hall, PhD
Assistant Professor
Communication Sciences and Disorders
Temple University
United States of America
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Robert Harrison, PhD, DSc
Professor
Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery
University of Toronto
Canada
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Maria Hartman, PhD
Lecturer and Director
Special Education: Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Teachers College, Columbia University
United States of America
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Louise Hickson, PhD
Professor and Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
The University of Queensland
Australia
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Michael Kiefte, PhD
Professor and Director
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Dalhousie University
Canada
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Olaf Kraus De Camargo, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
McMaster University
Canada
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Josée Lagacé, PhD
Professor and Director
Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Program
University of Ottawa
Canada
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Alexandre Lehmann, PhD
Assistant Professor
Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music
McGill University
Canada
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James Lewis, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
United States of America
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Ewan MacDonald, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo
Canada
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Devin McCaslin, PhD
Division Chief and Audiology Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of Michigan Medical School
United States of America
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Ryan McCreery, PhD
Vice President of Research
Boys Town National Research Hospital
United States of America
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Pam Millett, PhD
Associate Professor
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education Program
York University
Canada
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Majid Mohajerani, PhD
Associate Professor
The Douglas Research Centre
McGill University
Canada
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Karen Muñoz, EdD
Professor and Department Head Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
Utah State University
United Stats of America
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Behdin Nowrouzi-Kia, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy
University of Toronto
Canada
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Vijay Parsa, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Western University
Canada
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Renee Punch, PhD
Adjunct Professional Fellow
Faculty of Health
Southern Cross University
Australia
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Debra Russell, PhD
DLR Consulting and Former David Peikoff Chair of Deaf Studies
University of Alberta
Canada
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Gabrielle Saunders, PhD
Professor
Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
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Navid Shahnaz, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Audiology & Speech Sciences
University of British Columbia
Canada
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A. Eliot Shearer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Harvard Medical School
United States of America
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Sarah Theodoroff, PhD
US Government Researcher Department of Otolaryngology - HNS
Associate Professor, Oregon Health & Science University
United States of America 
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Barbara Weinstein, PhD
Professor, Audiology
CUNY Graduate Center
United Stats of America 
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Christina Yoshinaga- Itano, PhD
Research Professor
Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Colorado
United States of America 
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Fan-Gang Zeng, PhD
Professor and Director
Center for Hearing Research
University of California Irvine
United States of America
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