Theodore H. Venema, PhD, earned a BA in Philosophy at Calvin College in 1977 and an MA in Audiology at Western Washington University in 1988. After 3 years as a clinical audiologist at The Canadian Hearing Society in Toronto, he completed a PhD in Audiology at the University of Oklahoma in 1993. He was an Assistant Professor at Auburn University in Alabama for the next 2 years. From 1995 to 2001, he was a corporate audiologist at Unitron, based in Kitchener, Ontario, where he conducted field trials and gave presentations, domestically and abroad. From 2001 through 2006, he was an Assistant Professor of Audiology at Western University in Ontario. In 2006, he initiated, developed, and implemented the Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS) program at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario. He moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 2013, where he was part owner of a clinical audiology practice with NexGen Hearing. As of September 2015, Dr. Venema has been teaching on a part-time basis with the online HIS program at Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, Missouri. Dr. Venema continues to give presentations on various topics of hearing, hearing loss, and hearing aids at many state and provincial hearing aid associations.
