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About Kathryn Penno

Kathryn is a caring, resourceful and empathetic audiologist. Her area of expertise is helping you understand your tinnitus and how to manage it, and your hearing loss/ability and how to improve it. Sh ...

Special interests

Tinnitus management, hearing loss and hearing aid rehabilitation, ear wax removal (microsuction), adult and paediatric hearing tests (from 4yo) are my areas of expertise. Communication issues and barriers, sudden hearing loss, vestibular disorders, inclusive technologies and proactive healthcare, healthy ageing, and evidence-based knowledge translation into everyday practice.

Qualifications

Bachelor Commerce (Economics and Management), Masters in Clinical Audiology from the University of Western Australia (UWA)

Awards and Publications

PUBLICATIONS:

2023 Exploring hearing care technology from clinic to capability (Published)
2024 Tele-audiology services in Australia: A national survey of hearing healthcare consumers amid the
COVID-19 pandemic (Published)

AWARDS:

2022 Future Women, Project Return – full scholarship: A program that supports women to be active,
confident and values driven leaders through networking, education, and discussion.
2020 Emerging Leaders in Governance – full scholarship: The Emerging Leaders in Governance Program
develops young professionals (<40 years of age) for Board leadership in the health, disability, aged care, and
community sectors.
2020 Skills of the Modern Age – full scholarship: The SoMA Program develops and challenges leaders and
professionals to solve wicked problems using design thinking, human centred design, and service delivery
methods.
2019 The Interactive Design Foundation Design Thinking Certification

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Questions and Answers

The following questions have been posted by the HealthShare users and answered by Kathryn Penno

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Q. Why do I hear a random ringing tone in my ears every now and then?

About every month or so I randomly hear a high pitched ringing sound coming from one of my ears. I remember a long time ago someone told me this is actually normal. What is it? What causes it?

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Kathryn Penno

Hi,  As Soundfair has said, tinnitus is a symptom and can be experienced for many reasons (not limited to these) changes in your hearing ability or your peripheral hearing system (your ears and t ...

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