Associate Professor Gary Rance is an audiologist, a full-time researcher/teacher at University of Melbourne and a part-time sculptor. He is Director of Academic Programs for the Department of Otolaryngology, coordinates the Master of Clinical Audiology Program and currently holds the Wagstaff Research Fellowship in Otolaryngology. His research areas have included various aspects of auditory evoked potential measurement (notably the clinical application of auditory steady-state responses), cochlear implant outcomes in children, and the perceptual characterization of hearing impaired children. Most recently, he has been a leader in the field of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) responsible for the first publications to describe this form of hearing deficit in newborn babies