Margaret Kathleen Pichora-Fuller
Margaret Kathleen Pichora-Fuller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She has a background in clinical audiology. During her academic career, she has held several prestigious positions, including Director of the Institute for Hearing Accessibility Research at the University of British Columbia and President-Elect of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology.
Margaret Kathleen Pichora-Fuller takes an interdisciplinary approach to her research, which focuses primarily on auditory ageing, cognition and, more recently, social engagement, healthy ageing and brain health. Her efforts to understand cognitive processes in speech and listening, and to improve functionality and rehabilitation within the target group, have been of great importance not only to that group, but also within the scientific community. She is an international authority in her field, with her expertise recognised both scientifically and socially. In 2014, the American Academy of Audiology awarded her the International Award. Speech-Language and Audiology Canada awarded her the Eve Kassirer Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. In 2022, she became a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. She has also contributed to the World Health Organization's World Report on Hearing and continues to serve on WHO committees.
Margaret Kathleen Pichora-Fuller has collaborated with researchers at Örebro University for many years, and her efforts have played an important role in the internationalisation of our research. We look forward to her continued contributions to positive developments in interdisciplinary disability research, including ageing research at Örebro University.