Gary Rance

Gary graduated in 1989 and has since garnered an international reputation for his work in the development of diagnostic technologies for the assessment of hearing in infants and young children. He has received numerous awards for his contribution to the fields of audiology, paediatrics, education and neurology and in 2008 was made a Fellow of the Audiological Society of Australia.

Gary is an audiologist, clinical researcher and Professor at the University of Melbourne where he holds the Graeme Clark Chair in Audiology and Speech Science. His research areas include auditory evoked potentials, auditory neuroscience and the perceptual effects of permanent and transient hearing loss. He is a leader in the field of auditory neuropathy (AN) and was responsible for the first publications to describe this form of hearing abnormality in newborn babies.

Gary in action during the early 1990s, preparing an infant for steady-state evoked potential (SSEP) recording, a pre-cursor for today’s ASSR diagnostic tool.

^{Gary in action during the early 1990s, preparing an infant for steady-state evoked potential (SSEP) recording, a pre-cursor for today’s ASSR diagnostic tool.}