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About

Healthy Hearing & Balance Care is a private independent audiology practice bringing together the expertise of experienced audiologists and ear specialists to provide customised strategies for the prevention, assessment and rehabilitation of all hearing and balance disorders of children, adults and the elderly.

Our mission is to care for the hearing and balance needs of our patients to the best of our knowledge and expertise using the latest available technology, methods and procedures.

Staff of Healthy Hearing and Balance Care has developed a reputation of being able to solve the hearing and balance needs of those who could not be helped elsewhere.

Director Dr Celene McNeill is a fully qualified audiologist holding a bachelor of applied sciences in speech and hearing obtained at PUCC Brazil, a Masters of Audiology and a PhD in Meniere’s disease from Macquarie University in Australia.

Celene has been working as an audiologist in Australia since 1989 and has a broad professional experience as a clinician, researcher, speaker, advisor and board member of the following professional and charity associations related to Audiology:

Audiology Australia: past representative of NSW in the federal executive committee
Australian Association of Audiologists in Private Practice: executive member
Australian College of Audiology: affiliate member
American Academy of Audiology (AAA): international member
Australian Tinnitus Association NSW: past board director and past president
Cicada Australia Inc: affiliate member
Hearing Research and Diagnostic Centre – Precision Hearing: past chief audiologist
Hearing and Balance Centre at St Vincent’s Hospital: co-founder and past director.
International Tinnitus Association: member and organiser of the Xth seminar
Macquarie University Audiology Clinic: past clinical educator
Macquarie University Faculty of Human Sciences: honorary associate.
Meniere’s Support Group of NSW: past board member and professional advisor
Meniere’s Research Fund Inc: director of the board and scientific committee member.
Neuromonics Inc: past professional consultant
Self Help Group for the Hard of Hearing: affiliate member

 

 

 

 

The staff at Healthy Hearing & Balance Care:

Customer Services:  the smile behind the front desk, the voice on the telephone, the typist of the emails, the person responsible for the schedule of appointment, timely delivery of reports and devices, accuracy of accounts and much more.

  •  Mrs Eleanor Birrell

  • Mrs Sally Penny

Clinical Audiologists: the clinicians who consult the patients, conduct all the audiological assessments and rehabilitation procedures.

  • Dr Celene McNeill

  • Ms Karina Clifford

Otologist: the medical specialist and ear surgeon who consults with patients for the medical assesssment and treatment of ear diseases, performs trans-tympanic electrocochleography for the diagnosis of Meniere’s disease and conducts surgery from the Mater Hospital in Crows Nest, NSW.

  • Prof William Gibson

Medical Consultants: the ear specialists responsible for the interpretation of medical significance of diagnostic tests billed to Medicare.

  • Prof William Gibson

  •  Dr William Mooney

  • Dr Simon Greenberg