Dr. Kelly Tremblay


Retired Professor

Research Themes:  The Communicating Mind and Body

Kelly Tremblay’s research is aimed at improving hearing and communication for people as they age.

Dr. Tremblay, a neuroscientist and clinician, uses her knowledge about the aging brain to inform and improve auditory rehabilitation services for older adults. She disseminates this knowledge in many ways, including serving on public and policy advisory boards; such as the World Health Organization and the Hearing Loss Association of America among others. The National Institutes of Health funded her work for almost twenty years and her work is published in peer-reviewed manuscripts,  book chapters, and edited books.  She is a Retired Professor from the University of Washington in Seattle but now lives in Vancouver and is an Affiliate of UBC’s School of Audiology and Speech Sciences.

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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