EMC 2019 Visiting Professor Seminar Series: Professor Frank Lin
The EMC is thrilled to have Prof. Lin as our Visiting Professor this year. We will be hosting seminars in Christchurch, Dunedin and Auckland from 29 October to 1 November in conjunction with The Pindrop Foundation and Brain Research New Zealand. ...
Guidelines for treating a condition affecting thousands of children
Left to right: Melissa Baily, Dr Bill Keith, Professor Suzanne Purdy and Flora McKay (not pictured) wrote the New Zealand Guidelines for Auditory Processing Disorder. Guidelines for identifying and treating auditory processing disorder are set to become...
Māori hearing health care – driving the passion
Māori have the highest rate of self-reported disabling hearing loss in New Zealand and Alehandrea (Aleh) Manuel is leading research into how sufferers are accessing services to do something about it. The work is part of both an Eisdell Moore Centre (EMC) programme...
Short Course on Public Health Planning for Hearing Impairment – 22 to 25 October 2019
The Eisdell Moore Centre at the University of Auckland is pleased to be holding this short course that introduces public health approaches to hearing impairment and provides tools for advocacy and health promotion. When: Tues 22 - Fri 25 October 2019...
Launch of the New Zealand Guidelines for Auditory Processing Disorder: 29 August 2019
Members of the Eisdell Moore Centre, with support from the Ministries of Education and Health and the New Zealand Audiological Society have been working hard over the last couple of years to develop New Zealand Guidelines for Auditory Processing...
A Question of Balance
Dr Rachael Taylor wants to understand why we can suffer dizziness and balance problems after a mild head injury – when all the tests say there’s nothing wrong.It’s what she calls a “massive jigsaw puzzle” and a project she hopes will lead to better assessments, and...
EMC Summer Newsletter 2018
The Eisdell Moore Centre has had a successful and busy year with a number of highlights for the second half of the year including distribution of our second round of funding, appointing a Science Advisory Board and appointing our Pacific Hearing Research Community...
2018 EMC Project Grant Awards
The Eisdell Moore Centre has allocated $326,000 to 10 Explorer/Project Grants and 2 PhD student Grants in 2018. These grants range from exploring geographic variations of hearing health across to New Zealand to understanding the brain activity that underlies...
EMC Retreat 2018
The 2nd annual Eisdell Moore Centre Retreat was held last week (12 and 13 July) at the Tamaki Innovation campus with the focus this year being on building collaborations. We kicked off with some excellent 3 minute presentations from our members that showed the...
EMC Launch
The Eisdell Moore Centre was launched on 7 February 2017 with supporters of Hearing Research over many years in attendance. Named after Sir Patrick Eisdell Moore, an eminent Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon and a pioneer of hearing and deafness research in New...