Cila Umat

Associate Professor of Audiology

Cila Umat is an associate professor in the Audiology Program of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and chair of its Centre for Rehabilitation and Special Needs. She earned a BSc in physics from UKM, a Postgraduate Diploma in Audiology (1995) and a Master of Audiology (1996) from Macquarie University, Sydney, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne (2005) with research on cochlear implant psychophysics. A senior audiologist at UKM since 1996, she joined the UKM Cochlear Implant Team in 1997 and has advised the National Cochlear Implant Team of the Ministry of Health since 2016. Her research addresses hearing impairment, with emphasis on paediatric cochlear implantation, and she leads a project on an automated hearing screening device.