Dr Helen Cullington
Principal Clinical Scientist, Research Coordinator,Associate Professor
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Dr Helen Cullington is passionate about her work: innovative scientific research combined with changing people’s lives.
A cochlear implant is an implanted electronic device that gives a sensation of hearing to adults and children with severe to profound deafness. Helen Cullington is a clinician and researcher working at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service. She has more than 20 years’ experience in cochlear implants, having worked on several cochlear implant programmes within the United Kingdom and the United States, including House Ear Institute in Los Angeles. Helen has extensive clinical experience with all commercially-available implant devices within the United Kingdom, including involvement in the UK’s first ever binaural cochlear implant (see media tab). Helen is an elected member of the Council of the British Cochlear Implant Group and is a member of the Faculty Equality and Diversity Committee.
Helen’s first degree was in Physics followed by an MSc in Audiology at the University of Southampton in 1993. Helen was captivated by cochlear implants – the use of technology to improve people’s lives. She began working in cochlear implants immediately, as an Audiological Scientist on the implant programme in Middlesbrough initially and then from 1997 at the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service. She then worked in House Ear Institute in California, USA from 2001 to 2004, leaving House to begin a PhD at University of California, Irvine under the supervision of Fan-Gang Zeng. Helen returned to the University of Southampton Auditory Implant Service in 2007; she works with all cochlear implant devices and splits her time between seeing patients and working on research projects.
Helen presented "Cochlear implant care: putting patients in charge" at the British Cochlear Implant Group Annual Conference, March 2017.