Team members Archive - Online Hearing Care

Shivani Verma

jo — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:48:30 +0000

Upon qualifying from the University of Leeds in 2014 with a BSc in Audiology, Shivani has worked within the private Audiology sector as well as the NHS.

Her interest in Audiology stems from her passion to help people; to ensure that they are getting the most from their hearing devices and are able to hear as best as they can. Shivani’s grandfather lost the ability to hear in one ear and relied solely on the other despite it also being impaired. His struggle gave Shivani the motivation to help others in a similar position.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her loved ones, travelling and occasional candle making.

Prof Brian Moore

digital_rs7r21lg — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:59:32 +0000

Brian Moore is Emeritus Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. His research interests are: the perception of sound; development of new diagnostic tests of hearing; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Acoustical Society of America, The Audio Engineering Society, The British Society of Audiology, and the Association for Psychological Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK) and written or edited 20 books and over 730 scientific papers and book chapters.

Professor Moore has been awarded the Littler Prize and the Littler Lecture of the British Society of Audiology, the Silver and Gold medals of the Acoustical Society of America, the first International Award in Hearing from the American Academy of Audiology, the Award of Merit from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, the Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement, and an honorary doctorate from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. He recently achieved the Life Achievement Award from the American Auditory Society.

He is also wine steward of Wolfson College, Cambridge. In his spare time he likes playing the guitar and fixing things.

Prof Shafi Ahmed

digital_rs7r21lg — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:57:24 +0000

Award-winning Consultant Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital. Shafi is a teacher, futurist, innovator and entrepreneur.

He is a 3x TEDx and an international keynote speaker and is faculty at Harvard Medical School, Bart’s Medical School, Imperial College London, Queen Mary University, Bradford University and Singularity University where he teaches on medicine, innovation and digital transformation. He is an honorary visiting professor at Imperial College, London, The University of Bradford and in 2020 he was awarded the Spinoza visiting Professorship at the University of Amsterdam.

He is currently a member of the NHS Assembly advising on the long-term plan. He was previously an advisor to the Abu Dhabi Ministry of Health to help deliver innovation and digital Health and is the Vodafone UK Connected Health Ambassador.

In 2018 he was awarded the Future NHS award for NHS70 by Members of Parliament. In 2017 he was the top British Asian star in Tech and received this award from HRH Duke of York. He was also the British Bangladeshi of the Year 2017. He has delivered over 250 international keynotes on the future of healthcare, digital transformation and his work has been featured in over 400 newspapers, tech journals and mainstream TV news channels including Sky, BBC, CNN, ABC, Al Jazeera, CNBC, Time, Forbes, Bloomberg. He is one of the top 20 global influencers in Digital Health and Virtual Reality.

He chairs the Webit Health summit in Spain bringing together 15000+ innovators across all tech verticals and also co-founded the GIANT health summit in London. He is one of the top 20 global influencers in digital health and innovation and is a HIMSS Future50 clinical leader 2020.

Dr Josef Schlittenlacher

digital_rs7r21lg — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 10:56:10 +0000

Josef is a multidisciplinary scientist with a focus on machine learning for healthcare and audio.
He graduated from TU Munich with a M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and obtained a Ph.D. in Psychology at TU Darmstadt. He has done several research visits to Seikei University (Tokyo), a postdoc with Brian Moore at the University of Cambridge and is currently a lecturer at the University of Manchester. He also worked as a software developer and consultant for the aircraft industry, in relation to cockpit simulation and the loudness of helicopters and eVTOLs.

Recently, his main research focus has been on using machine learning to make hearing tests more efficient and more accurate. Further research on machine learning included text to speech and automatic speech recognition with applications for the hearing impaired. He is a specialist in perceptual models, and co-authored the upcoming ISO 532-3 standard for the calculation of loudness.

He won several awards for his work on perceptual models, including a Best Paper and Presentation Award at ICA 2019 and the DIN Award “Young Science” (DIN is the German Organisation for Standardisation).