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Kathy Pichora-Fuller has earned an international reputation for her interdisciplinary research linking auditory processing and cognitive functioning in older adults. Her basic research program focuses on auditory aging, while her clinical work emphasizes audiological rehabilitation. Pichora-Fuller worked for several years as a Clinical Audiologist and Audiology Supervisor at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto before completing her doctoral studies in Psychology at the University of Toronto in 1986. She spent a decade on the faculty at the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of British Columbia before joining the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2002. She served as the Director of the Institute of Hearing Research and was an Adjunct Scientist at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute's Communication Team from 2004 to 2017. A member of various professional organizations, she has held leadership roles, including President of the Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and co-chair of the World Congress of Audiology in 2016. Pichora-Fuller is recognized for her contributions to aging research, having collaborated with institutions in Sweden and the USA, and has been a key figure in research funded by Canadian health agencies.
Department of Sociology