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Dr. Sophia E. Kramer is Associate Professor at the department of ENT/ Audiology, EMGO+ Institute at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. Her background is in Neuropsychology. Her major research interests are in the psychosocial effects of hearing impairment in adults and methods of assessment. Further interests are in the development of aural rehabilitation services in the workplace and ways to measure listening effort. She has published papers, a book and bookchapters on psychosocial-, occupational and cognitive aspects of hearing impairment and self-report outcome measures.
Sophia Kramer studied Neuropsychology at the VU University in Amsterdam. She obtained her Ph.D. in Audiology at the VU University in 1998. After that she continued working at the dept. of ENT / Audiology at the VU University medical center.
She is mainly involved in research activities, but is also engaged in clinical work (patient care) at the University Audiological Center of the VUmc.
Sophia Kramer is actively involved in (inter)national research collaboration. She is the principal investigator of the National Longitudinal Study on Hearing (NL-SH) (www.hooronderzoek.nl).
From 2008-2011 she served as research project leader (20% of full-time) at the Oticon Research Center Eriksholm, Denmark.
She is editorial board member of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies of Health and Wellbeing, Audiology Research and Trends in Amplification.
Sophia Kramer is president of the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA).
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