Audiologist

Sargunam Sivaraj  (Sar)

PhD, FAAA, MAC Aud                                                                                                      

Hearing Consultant / Senior Audiologist,

Star Hearing Consultants

Dr. Sargunam Sivaraj (also known as Dr Sar), an American Board Certified Audiologist with extensive medical audiology background. He holds certifications from various internationally recognised Professional Audiology Institutions. He earned his Doctoral degree in Audiology from Massey University, New Zealand. He also studied audiology in India and earned a Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in Speech and Hearing. He lectures at national and international levels on prevention of noise and music-induced hearing loss.

Dr. Sar is very passionate in helping his patients with their hearing health care needs and has been practicing audiologist for over 30 years. He worked as the professional leader-Audiology over 15 years for Capital and Coast District Health Board (C&C DHB), Wellington New Zealand and over 3 Years at Lion Hearing Clinic (Ear Science Institute Perth). Prior to that he worked as Charge Audiologist OVER 10 years for the Government of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (UAE)

His area of expertise and specialty is in the medical Audiology, diagnosis of hearing loss, using state-of-art hearing instrument technology, Prevention of hearing loss, helping patients with their tinnitus and tinnitus management, hearing conservation and protection and also providing solutions to patients who are exposed to loud noise and music. He is also passionate about educating his patients and the community about hearing loss and the ways to overcome the negative effects of hearing impairment.  He has the expertise to ensure that his patients receive appropriate hearing solutions, considering the patient’s lifestyle and budget.

Dr Sar often reminds his patients:

“Hearing difficulties are invisible affecting not only the patient but also their friends and family. It has a direct impact on their quality of life”.

“Hearing loss is more noticeable than hearing aids. One can easily hide their hearing aids but not their hearing problems”.

“Using hearing aids is not a sign of old age but having hearing difficulty and not doing anything about it is a sign of old age”

Dr Sar is available on Saturday every fortnight 1-5pm.

Appointments can be made by calling 1800 11 4327.