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Elaine Saunders

Elaine has worked in hearing research and technology for forty years. She is Co-founder, Blamey Saunders hears, a company which supplies affordable, discrete and highly effective hearing aids through an innovative online telehealth service and clinic based in Melbourne. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology at Swinburne University, and a clinical supervisor and mentor to many other students. She is former Chief Executive of Dynamic Hearing a company which supplied award winning digital signal processing for ultra-low power chips for the hearing aid and telephony industry. Elaine also led the Cooperative Research Centre team that developed a new electrode for Cochlear Ltd, leading to the company gaining the Australian Design award in 2000. In her youth, she was an international track runner. Elaine is an advocate for people with hearing loss, and a popular public speaker on the topic of Hearing and Listening. She is an Executive Director of the Rotary International Action Group on hearing and continues to try and reduce the barriers to hearing help. She is a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne and Immediate Past Chair of its Health Issues Committee, Elaine is also the Chair of the Board of the Innovation Precinct at Swinburne University, member of the Industry Advisory panel (Engineering) for Swinburne University, and a Directorof ANFF. She was on the Advisory Board of the Children’s Charity Network (2005-2013) and is a former Non-Executive Director of Alfred Health. Elaine grew up with the struggles of hearing impairment from the age of 9 when her father lost his hearing. She experienced the struggles he had with his career, and the impact his loss had on their family. When she was a teenager in England, with her father’s encouragement, Elaine volunteered as a house mother in the residential section of the Royal Derby School for Deaf Children. Her close bond with these children and seeing their challenges first hand changed the course of Elaine’s life, in a quest to help people hear. Elaine has just helped to co-produce a play performed in Melbourne – The Sound of Waves – based on the life experience of a profoundly deaf girl (Jodie Harris, actor) who received a cochlear implant as a trial patient. Elaine was the leader of the Cochlear team that assessed Jodie for her implant in 1999. • Australian Design Award, Social Innovation 2015 • Australasian Industrial Research Group (AIRG) Medal for Research Innovation, 2013 • City of Melbourne: Melbourne Award for Contribution to Community, 2012 • Women in Leadership Forum, Asia: Leading Woman in Healthcare, 2011 • American Academy of Audiology: Award for Achievement in Industry, 2010 • Audiological Society of Australia: Certificate of Outstanding Service, 2008 • Telstra Business Woman of the Year National Award (Private & Corporate sector), 2004 • Biomelbourne Network, Leading Woman in Biotech, 2015
15/11/2012 16/11/2012

Why are our hearing aids a cheap price?

We are constantly asked why our hearing aids are so …

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14/11/2012 14/11/2012

Internet hearing aids can be a very good decision if the supplier is right

Not everything sold on the Internet is bad, and that includes our hearing aids.

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14/11/2012 16/11/2012

It’s not just you, It’s your family too.

Hearing difficulties often pose quite large stresses on partners, families …

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13/11/2012 13/11/2012

Australian Innovation Challenge recognises Blamey as an innovator and inventor

Peter Blamey is a finalist in the Australian Innovation Challenge …

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12/11/2012 16/11/2012

The Ear-Brain System

The words, “The Ear Brain System were recently used in …

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11/11/2012 16/11/2012

On Clinical Models and Hearing Aid Costs

Hearing aids and audiology have suffered from over refining the …

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09/11/2012 09/11/2012

How small are our hearing aids?

Some of the first questions new clients ask us – …

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08/11/2012 16/11/2012

Hearing aids at the Spring Racing Carnival

So, Melbourne continues to party, while the world addresses more …

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07/11/2012 07/11/2012

Hearing the USA election speeches

My blog is supposed to be about hearing. But today …

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06/11/2012 06/11/2012

Get over hearing difficulties and become a listener

If you experience and of the following difficulties. then quality …

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Dr Elaine Saunders

Hi, I'm Dr. Elaine Saunders, award-winning hearing scientist and co-founder of profit-for-purpose hearing aid company Blamey Saunders hears. Welcome to my blog!

There's more to hearing and listening than you might think. Here I discuss the complex topic in easy to understand language.

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