Rate My Professor Traci Flynn

Dr. Traci Flynn serves as a Casual Academic in the School of Health Sciences, College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD in Audiology from Goteborgs Universitet in Sweden, concentrating on the hearing and middle ear status of children and young adults with cleft palate with or without lip, a Master of Arts, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Minnesota, USA. Her professional career encompasses a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Karolinska Institute's Speech Pathology department in Sweden from 2013 to 2017, where she examined the impact of hearing devices on language and quality of life in children with hearing impairment. Previously, she was a PhD student at the University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital's Department of Audiology from 2008 to 2013, and a Research Audiologist at Oticon A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2002 to 2007. During her time at Oticon, she provided clinical services in the USA, UK, and New Zealand for individuals with hearing impairment, especially cochlear implant users, contributed to designing user-friendly hearing devices, received a US patent for a hearing aid with visual indicator in 2006, and co-authored the Functional Assessment Guide with Professor Anne Marie Tharpe.