Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick is a full professor in audiology at the School of Rehabilitation Sciences’ audiology and speech-language pathology program at the University of Ottawa. She is also a senior scientist at the CHEO Research Institute, Child Hearing Lab.  Professor Fitzpatrick joined the University of Ottawa in 2007 after completing doctoral studies in population health at the University of Ottawa. She holds a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Medicine and from 2018 to 2020, she held a visiting professorship at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Professor Fitzpatrick has worked in auditory (re)habilitation and audiology for the past 30 years. Before joining the University, she held clinical and management positions as an audiologist and therapist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa and at the Central Speech and Hearing Clinic in Winnipeg. Working in collaboration with colleagues at CHEO and the Ottawa Hospital, her research and publications cover the audiology spectrum, from infants to adults.  Her current research is primarily supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and by the Consortium national de formation en santé. 

Professor Fitzpatrick has held several editorial positions, including as editor-in-chief of The Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (2012-16), as associate editor of The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (2014 -2020), and as the current editor of The Volta Review. From 2017 to 2021, she served as a member of the council of the College of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists of Ontario (CASLPO) and is currently a board member of the Council for Accreditation of Canadian University Programs in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. She also serves as a board member of the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss, and of the Central Speech and Hearing Clinic in Winnipeg. In 2022, the Canadian Academy of Audiology presented her with the Honours of the Academy.

Professor Fitzpatrick is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• CHEO Research
• ResearchGate

• Epidemiology of childhood hearing loss
• Early intervention practices and outcomes in children with hearing loss  
• Cochlear implantation for children and adults, including outcomes in “special populations” 
• Services for children and families affected by hearing loss
• Systematic reviews on hearing loss and hearing technology 

• Fitzpatrick, E.M. Wu, J., Olds, J. Whittingham, J., Nassrallah, F., Gaboury, I., Durieux-Smith, A., Coyle, D.  (2022). Parent-reported stress and child behavior for 4-year-old children with unilateral or mild bilateral hearing loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 27, 137-150. doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enab042
• Fitzpatrick, E.M., Carrier, V., Turgeon, G., Olmstead, T., McAfee, A., Whittingham, J., Schramm, D.  (E-pub, 2022). Benefits of auditory-verbal intervention for adult cochlear implant users: perspectives of users and their coaches. International Journal of Audiology. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2021.1993361
• Salatmatmanesh, M., Ramsay, T., Lagacé, J. Sikora, L. Fitzpatrick, E.M. (supervisor) (2022). Pediatric hearing aid use: A systematic review. International Journal of Audiology, 61(1):12-20. doi: 10.1080/14992027.2021.1962014
• Na, E., Toupin-April, K., Olds, J., Whittingham, J., Fitzpatrick, E.M. (supervisor). (2022). Clinical characteristics and outcomes of children with cochlear implants who had preoperative residual hearing. International Journal of Audiology, 61(2): 108-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2021.1893841
• Noll, D., DiFabio, D., Moodie, S., Grandpierre, V., Graham, I. Potter, B. Fitzpatrick, E.M. (supervisor). (2021). Coaching caregivers of children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing: A scoping review. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 26 (4):453-468. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enab018
• Vos, B., Noll, D., Whittingham, J., Pigeon, M., Bagatto, M., Fitzpatrick, E.M. (2021). Cytomegalovirus – a risk factor for childhood hearing loss: A systematic review. Ear and Hearing, 42(6):1447-1461. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000001055
• Nassrallah, F., Tang, K. Whittingham, J. Sun, H. Fitzpatrick, E.M. (2020). Auditory, social and behavioral skills of children with unilateral/mild hearing loss. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 25(2), 167-177. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enz041
• Fitzpatrick, E.M., McCurdy, L., Whittingham J., Rourke, R., et al. (2020).  Hearing loss prevalence and hearing health among school-aged children in the Canadian Arctic. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2020.1731616
• Fitzpatrick, E.M., Nassrallah, F., Vos, B. Whittingham, J., Fitzpatrick, J. (2020). Progressive hearing loss in children with mild bilateral hearing loss. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, (Invited manuscript), 51(1):5-16. doi: 10.1044/2019
• Fitzpatrick, EM, Coyle, D, Gaboury, I, Durieux-Smith, A, Whittingham, J, Grandpierre, V, Na, E, Salamatmanesh, M. (2019) Service preferences of parents of children with mild bilateral or unilateral hearing loss: A conjoint analysis study. Ear and Hearing. 41, 671-679. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000651. (Highlighted in 2019 favorites in Hearing Journal).
• Fitzpatrick, EM, Gaboury I. Coyle, D, et al. (2018). Auditory and language outcomes in children with unilateral hearing loss.  Hearing Research, [Epub ahead of print], 2018 doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2018.03.015.
• Barreira-Nielsen C, Fitzpatrick EM, Hashem S, Whittingham J, Barrowman N, Aglipay M. (2016). Progressive hearing loss in children. Ear and Hearing. 37(5), e311-321. doi: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000325
• Fitzpatrick E. M, Hamel C., Stevens A., Pratt M., Moher D., Doucet S. P, Neuss D., Bernstein A., Na E.. (2016). Sign language and spoken language for children with hearing loss: A systematic review. Pediatrics, 137(1).

Books Authored

• Duncan J, Rhoades EA, Fitzpatrick E.M. (2014). Adolescents with hearing impairment: Auditory (re)habilitation. Oxford University Press.
• Fitzpatrick E.M., Doucet S.P. (2013). Apprendre à écouter et à parler: La communication auditive-verbale chez l'enfant ayant une déficience auditive. University of Ottawa Press.
• Fitzpatrick, E.M. Doucet, S.P. (2013). Pediatric audiologic rehabilitation: From infancy to adolescence. New York, United States: Thieme Medical Publisher