Catherine BIRMAN Australia
ENT Faculty at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Macquarie University Hospital, and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital in Sydney, Australia.
Clinical Professor Birman is an otolaryngologist specializing in paediatric and adult cochlear implants, otology and paediatric ENT. She has extensive experience in paediatric and adult cochlear implants having performed over two thousand cochlear implant procedures.
In 2017 Cln Prof Birman was awarded the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year Award for her work with cochlear implants. She received the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the Art and Science of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery in 2018. In 2022 she received the Order of Australia Medal for services to Otolaryngology.
Cln Prof Birman has published and presented extensively on cochlear implant outcomes, innovative cochlear implant devices; bone conduction implantable hearing devices; and paediatric conditions. She has been principal medical investigator and part of several grants and many clinical trials treating hearing with different novel devices, and also intracochlear gene therapy.
Cln Prof Birman has been a Director of NextSense, Australia’s second oldest charity, established for those with hearing or vision impairment; and has been Joint Head of Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery at Sydney University, and is an Honorary Clinical Professor at Macquarie University and Clinical Professor with Sydney University. She has been a past NSW chair of ASOHNS and served on a number of hospital and NSW Health government committees.