Dr Vasiliki (Vivian)Maria Iliadou is a Professor of Psychoacoustics at the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is an ENT physician with a doctoral degree in Audiology (2000). She was a faculty member in “Central Auditory Processing-Current Research and Implications for Clinical Practice” 2009 Masterclass in Advanced Audiology UCL Institute of Hearing & in the 1rst & 2nd Global Perspectives of Central Auditory Processing Conference during AudiologyNOW American Academy of Audiology 2012,2014. She has been awarded the prizes for research and foreign lecturing from the Dean of Health Faculty AUTH for the year 2018.
Her main research and clinical practice interests are central auditory processing, genetics in hearing, speech in noise perception, dichotic listening, communication & learning disorders. She has established the first Auditory Processing Clinic in Greece for children and adults in AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki. She has established the European APD Study Group to promote awareness on APD diagnosis and management alongside focused research.
Her scientific publications cover the area of Auditory Processing Disorders, Genetics in Hearing, Speech in noise perception & Psychometric evaluation. Her published work ranks Greece the 2th country in the world for APD research for the last five years. Among authoring several chapters and editing the first Greek book on APD, she has co-authored a chapter with Doris-Eva Bamiou on the Medical Perspective of CAPD in the Handbook of CAPD edited by Musiek & Chermak 2nd edition, Plural Publishing 2013 and a chapter on Auditory Processing in Mental Health in the Central Auditory Processing Disorder 3rd edition Co-Editors: Donna Geffner, Deborah Ross-Swain to be released in 2018. Professor Iliadou's latest work include a European consensus on APD.