Lorienne Jenstad

Lorienne Jenstad, PhD, is an audiologist and Associate Professor/ Associate Director at the University of British Columbia’s School of Audiology and Speech Sciences. Her teaching and research expertise includes hearing and aging, hearing aid processing, and hearing health care for older adults. She is currently conducting research studies on hearing aids, communication between patients and health care providers, and barriers to hearing health care access in BC. She has done work alongside physicians and nurses in developing messages and strategies to support primary care providers in detecting and managing hearing health care for their older patients. Her work has been funded by Michael Smith Health Research BC, NSERC, CIHR, Mitacs, Vancouver Foundation, and industrial partners.