Prof. Doris-Eva Bamiou
Professor of Neuro-Audiology
Professor Doris-Eva Bamiou is a Professor in Neuroaudiology at the UCL Ear Institute and a Consultant in Audiovestibular Medicine at UCLH, specializing in complex auditory and balance disorders. With a PhD in auditory processing from UCL, she has received multiple prestigious awards and has published over 170 research papers, while also leading educational programs and contributing to media discussions on auditory processing and vestibular disorders.
Bio
Professor Doris-Eva Bamiou MD MSc (distinction) PhD FRCP is Professor in Neuroaudiology at the UCL Ear Institute, and Consultant in Audiovestibular Medicine at UCLH. In her clinics she assesses and manages complex patients with auditory or balance disorders.
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She started her academic career on a personal Senior Lectureship award by the Department of Health Higher Education Funding Council for England. Before that, she trained in ENT in Greece, completed clinical training in Audiological Medicine in the UK and undertook a three-month funded fellowship to train in auditory processing disorders in Professor Musiek’s department in USA.
Her PhD (Institute of Neurology, UCL) is on auditory processing in patients with structural brain lesions. She received the Pat Jobson Prize of the British Association of Audiological Physicians (2002) and the Edith Whetnall prize of the Royal Society of Medicine (2012) and the Thomas Simm Littler Prize 2017 of the British Society of Audiology for promoting the field of auditory processing disorders.
She is Director and Organiser of the APD advanced masterclass (UCL), Programme Co-Director of the MSc in Audiovestibular Medicine (UCL) and Editor of the eBrain Neuro-otology section and of the Scott and Brown Neuro-otology section.
Her research interests include clinical APD syndromes in normal subjects and after stroke, auditory treatment and rehabilitation for APD, interaction of cognition with audition and vestibular function, customised balance rehabilitation, and harnessing technological developments for the accurate diagnosis and individualised rehabilitation of audiovestibular disorders.
She has over 170 peer reviewed research papers and numerous chapters in clinical books, while she has been interviewed by BBC and ITV news on vestibular topics and BBC Radio 3 on APD after stroke.
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Professor Bamiou was awarded "The George Harris Award" by the British Society of Audiology in June 2024 in recognition to significant impact to service users/contribution in the field of adult rehabilitation and paediatric rehabilitation in Auditory Processing Disorders
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