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Sharon Cushing
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Latest papers
Malposition of a nasogastric tube into the middle ear of a premature one week old infant.
Journal of neonatal-perinatal medicine · 2025
Health-Related Quality of Life Changes Associated With Hearing Loss
JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2020
Long-term Implant Usage and Quality-of-Life in Sequential Bilateral Pediatric Cochlear Implantation.
Otology & neurotology : official publication of the American Otological Society, American Neurotology Society [and] European Academy of Otology and Neurotology · 2020
Latest funding
- $726,750
Characterizing Vestibular Function in Older Adults with Hearing Loss
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $895,050
Hear Here! Reducing cognitive load in children with hearing loss through spatial plasticity and learning
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $559,980
Novel treatment to establish spatial hearing in children who are deaf
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
9 publications.
Malposition of a nasogastric tube into the middle ear of a premature one week old infant.
Alali A, Cushing S, James A, Marcotte K, Ditkofsky N
Health-Related Quality of Life Changes Associated With Hearing Loss
Dixon PR, Feeny D, Tomlinson G, Cushing S, Chen JM, Krahn MD
Long-term Implant Usage and Quality-of-Life in Sequential Bilateral Pediatric Cochlear Implantation.
Low D, Shipp D, Gordon K, Kuroiwa-Rivero M, Cushing S, Papsin B, Le T, Lin V, Chen J
Measurement Properties of the Hearing Environments and Reflection of Quality of Life (HEAR-QL) 28-item Questionnaire in Cholesteatoma
Colin Gerald Leonard, Peter R. Dixon, Sharon Lynn Cushing, Blake Croll Papsin, Karen Ann Gordon, Adrian Lewis James
Vestibular function following unilateral cochlear implantation for profound sensorineural hearing loss.
le Nobel GJ, Hwang E, Wu A, Cushing S, Lin VY
Residual Cholesteatoma After Endoscope-guided Surgery in Children.
James AL, Cushing S, Papsin BC
Seizure activity following cochlear implantation: Is it the implant?
Tulika Shinghal, Sharon Lynn Cushing, Karen Ann Gordon, Joelene F. Huber, John Lee, Blake Croll Papsin
Cholesteatoma with congenital eustachian tube obstruction.
Gotha L, Cushing S, James AL
Dose-Dependent Suppression of the Electrically Elicited Stapedius Reflex by General Anesthetics in Children Undergoing Cochlear Implant Surgery
Mark W. Crawford, Michelle C. White, Evan Jon Propst, Christian Zaarour, Sharon Lynn Cushing, Carolyne Pehora, Adrian Lewis James, Karen Ann Gordon, Blake Croll Papsin
Characterizing Vestibular Function in Older Adults with Hearing Loss
Principal investigators: Campos, Jennifer L; Li, Karen Zown-Hua
Keywords: Adaptation; Balance; Falls; Hearing Loss; Older Adults; Perturbation; Simulation; Vestibular; Virtual Reality; Vision
Hear Here! Reducing cognitive load in children with hearing loss through spatial plasticity and learning
Principal investigators: Gordon, Karen Ann
Keywords: Bilateral/Bimodal Hearing; Binaural/Spatial Hearing; Cochlear Implants; Development; Hearing Loss/Deafness; Learning; Plasticity; Vestibular/Balance
Novel treatment to establish spatial hearing in children who are deaf
Principal investigators: Gordon, Karen Ann
Keywords: Children
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Joseph Chen and Vincent Lin: 21 shared papers
- Joseph Chen and Trung Le: 13 shared papers
- Trung Le and Vincent Lin: 12 shared papers
- Karen Gordon and Blake Papsin: 9 shared papers
- David Feeny and George Tomlinson: 4 shared papers
- Karen Gordon and Sharon Cushing: 4 shared papers
- Sharon Cushing and Blake Papsin: 2 shared papers
- David Feeny and Sharon Cushing: 1 shared paper
- Karen Gordon and Christian Zaarour: 1 shared paper
- Karen Gordon and Joseph Chen: 1 shared paper
- Karen Gordon and Adrian James: 1 shared paper
- Karen Gordon and Trung Le: 1 shared paper
- Karen Gordon and John Lee: 1 shared paper
- Karen Gordon and Vincent Lin: 1 shared paper
- Karen Gordon and Tulika Shinghal: 1 shared paper
- George Tomlinson and Sharon Cushing: 1 shared paper
- Christian Zaarour and Sharon Cushing: 1 shared paper
- Joseph Chen and Sharon Cushing: 1 shared paper
- Joseph Chen and Blake Papsin: 1 shared paper
- Sharon Cushing and Adrian James: 1 shared paper
- Sharon Cushing and Trung Le: 1 shared paper
- Sharon Cushing and John Lee: 1 shared paper
- Sharon Cushing and Vincent Lin: 1 shared paper
- Sharon Cushing and Tulika Shinghal: 1 shared paper
- John Lee and Vincent Lin: 1 shared paper
- John Lee and Tulika Shinghal: 1 shared paper
- Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
- Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Department of Economics
- Biostatistics Division
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Karen Gordon
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
4 shared papers, latest 2020
Blake Papsin
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
2 shared papers, latest 2020
Adrian James
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Trung Le
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2020
John Lee
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Vincent Lin
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Tulika Shinghal
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2012
David Feeny
Department of Economics
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Murray Krahn
Toronto General Research Institute
1 shared papers, latest 2020
George Tomlinson
Biostatistics Division
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Christian Zaarour
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2009
Joseph Chen
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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