Audiology: Our team
All of our audiologists are licensed by the State of California, certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association, and maintain a variety of other certifications and fellowships.
Gerald Popelka, PhD
Katie Currie, MA
Honey Gholami, AuD
Jannine B. Larky, MA
Megan Loy, AuD
Austin Swanson, AuD
Goutham Telukuntla, AuD
Gerald Popelka, PhD
Gerald Popelka Prior earned a masters degree in audiology from Kent State University and has a PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with an emphasis in neuroscience, and a two year post doctoral research fellowship in otolaryngology from UCLA. He was a faculty member for 24 years at Washington University in St. Louis with appointments in the Arts and Sciences and the Medical School and was the Head of Audiology at Central Institute for the Deaf, an internationally-recognized institution. He joined the faculty at Stanford in 2004 and became Chief of Audiology in 2005.
His research has been funded continuously with external grants primarily from the National Institutes of Health. He is a co-inventor of the world's first all digital hearing aid that forms the basis of all current programmable and digital hearing aids or ~95% of all hearing aids currently sold worldwide. He has over 100 publications and continues to incorporate new and leading-edge technology into his research, always cognizant of its potential for clinical applications.
Katie Currie, MA
Katie Currie obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon in 1998. She returned to graduate school at Portland State University and then to San Francisco State University where she received a Master of Science degree in Audiology in 2005. She joined Stanford Audiology in 2005.
She performs auditory diagnostics and has considerable experience with the selection, fitting and adjustment state-of-the art hearing aids as well as non-conventional amplification devices. She is also trained in cochlear implant technology. She is fluent in Spanish.
Honey Gholami, AuD
Honey Gholami obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from San Jose State University in 2002. She returned to graduate school at San Francisco State University where she received a Master of Science degree in Audiology in 2004. She then obtained her Audiology doctorate degree from Salus University. She joined Stanford Audiology in 2004.
She performs both conventional and advanced diagnostic measures of the auditory and balance or vestibular systems. She also is experienced to select, fit and adjust state-of-the art hearing aids as well as non-conventional amplification devices. She is fluent in Farsi.
Jannine B. Larky, MA
Jannine Larky has worked with pediatric and adult cochlear implant patients for over 18 years. She obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1989. She then returned to California to complete her Clinical Fellowship in Audiology at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Three years later she accepted a position at UC San Francisco and remained there for the next 12 years. In 2004, she joined Stanford Audiology to establish and direct a new Cochlear Implant Center.
She oversees the clinical and daily operations of the center and sees patients, providing the full range of services to cochlear implant candidates and recipients. She has expertise in programming all manufacturers of cochlear implants that are available. She has presented widely on cochlear implantation.
Megan Loy, AuD
Megan Loy obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from San Jose State University in 2002. She then returned to graduate school at San Francisco State University where she received a Master of Science degree in Audiology in 2004. She then obtained her Audiology doctorate degree from Salus University in 2008. She joined Stanford Audiology in 2007.
She specializes in cochlear implants and provides a full range of services to cochlear implant candidates and recipients. She has expertise in programming all manufacturers of cochlear implants and is experienced to select, fit and adjust conventional amplification devices.
Austin Swanson, AuD
Austin Swanson obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Chico in 2002. He returned to graduate school at the University of Hawai”I at Manoa where he received a Master of Science degree in Audiology in 2004. He then obtained his Audiology doctorate degree from Salus University in 2008. He joined Stanford Audiology in 2009.
He performs both conventional and advanced diagnostic measures of the auditory and balance or vestibular systems. He is experienced to select, fit and adjust state-of-the art hearing aids and non-conventional amplification devices including cochlear implants.
Goutham Telukuntla, AuD
Goutham Telukuntla obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Mangalore, in India, in 2001. He received his Master of Science degree from the University of Wyoming in 2006. He then obtained his Audiology doctorate degree from the University of Florida in 2009. He joined Stanford Audiology in 2008.
He performs both conventional and advanced diagnostic measures of the auditory and balance or vestibular systems. He also is experienced to select, fit and adjust state-of-the art hearing aids as well as non-conventional amplification devices. He is fluent in Hindi.
