Ilona Anderson

Director of Clinical Research

Ilona Anderson is Director of Clinical Research at MED-EL, the Innsbruck-based maker of hearing implants, where she leads the clinical research team that runs trials worldwide to test and evaluate the company's products and prototypes. She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand before earning her PhD at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, with research on the assessment of cochlear implants in children. By a 2016 company interview she had spent over 15 years with MED-EL's clinical research team and had been its director for ten years, and the team had grown from four or five people to 20.