Dr. Lorienne Jenstad


Associate Professor

Audiology & Speech Sciences

Faculty of Medicine

Research Themes:  The Communicating Mind and Body

Lorienne Jenstad is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s  School of Audiology and Speech Science.  She received her Master’s degree in audiology from the University of Western Ontario in 1996, after which she worked for 5 years conducting clinical research on hearing aids.  Subsequently, she went to Seattle, Washington for her doctoral studies in Audiology, before returning to Vancouver in 2005.  Her teaching and research interests include hearing aids, speech acoustics, speech perception, and hearing health care for older adults.

Research Interests

Hearing aids, speech acoustics, speech perception, and hearing health care for older adults.

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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