Lorienne Jenstad

Lorienne Jenstad, PhD, is an audiologist and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Audiology and Speech Sciences.  Her teaching and research interests include 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 treatment strategies for workers with hearing loss. 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 the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Mitacs, Vancouver Foundation, industrial partners, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR).