PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Dr. Vidya Ramkumar has spent the last decade working in developing service delivery models using technology to bridge gaps in audiology services in the underserved regions of South India.
• She was recently awarded the Wellcome Trust-DBT India Alliance Clinical and public health fellowship (2020) at the intermediate level to pursue translational research in tele-practice applications in audiology and speech-language pathology services in collaboration with the public sector services in Tamil Nadu. She is also a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Professional Research fellowship awardee (2014). Her PhD was in the area of tele-audiological application in rural newborn hearing screening programs in South India.
• She received the NIH sponsored “New investigator award” at the 3rd International Conference on Internet and Audiology, KY, USA in 2017.
• She is a life member of Telemedicine Society of India, Indian Speech and Hearing Association and actively participates in the meetings of these societies.

CV -Dr. Vidya Ramkumar