Professor
Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Harvey Dillon, PhD, is a part-time professor within audiology at Macquarie University (focused on auditory processing disorders) and a part-time professor of auditory science at the University of Manchester. Professor Dillon has carried out research into many aspects of hearing aids, measurement of hearing rehabilitation effectiveness, electrophysiological assessment, and the diagnosis and treatment of auditory processing disorders. He was the Director of the National Acoustic Laboratories from 2000 to 2017.
He is the author of over 270 scientific publications and a widely used text book on hearing aids and is frequently invited to give keynote addresses at international conferences. He has been closely associated with the various NAL prescription rules, COSI outcomes evaluation, the trainable hearing aid, the LiSN-S test of spatial processing disorder, Sound Storm auditory processing, Sound Scouts automated online hearing testing of children, and the HEARLab clinical cortical response testing method.