University of Western Ontario/Theodore Venema, Ph.D. is Professor of Audiology in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at University of Western Ontario in Canada. Prior to joining the UWO faculty, he was Manager of Audiology Education and Training at Unitron Industries, a global hearing aid manufacturer, where he conducted trials on new hearing aids and taught staff about hearing, hearing loss, and hearing aids. His areas of expertise are hearing aid dispensing and auditory brainstem response (ABR).