Jill C. Bernstein, Au.D.
Doctor of Audiology / Assistant Director
Dr. Bernstein has been with Hearing Evaluation Services since 2006. Prior to her audiology career, Dr. Bernstein worked as a licensed nursing home administrator for several years in Westchester County. In addition to her clinical caseload, Dr. Bernstein is the Assistant Director and is responsible for ensuring that our office remains on the cutting edge of diagnostic audiology procedures. Dr. Bernstein has presented at several national audiology conferences and has taught and assisted undergraduate and graduate audiology courses at the University at Buffalo, where she serves as an Adjunct Clinical Instructor.
She has also presented on current research, clinical testing techniques, and treatment and management of hearing and balance disorders for physicians at Dent Neurologic Institute, Sisters of Charity Hospital, and the Buffalo Ear Nose and Throat Society. In 2015, Dr. Bernstein extended the reach of HES audiologists by joining a medical mission to Guatemala. Each February, she returns to Guatemala to test hearing and fit hearing aids for rural villagers who do not typically have access to medical or audiological services.
Dr. Bernstein’s areas of clinical specialty include comprehensive hearing evaluations, selection and fitting of hearing aids, and vestibular (dizziness) evaluations. Dr. Bernstein is also a certified provider of the Lyric hearing device.
Dr. Bernstein grew up in Northern New Jersey and has lived in several cities throughout the United States and abroad prior to relocating to the Buffalo area in 2003.
Education/Training:
2007 Doctorate in Audiology State University of New York at Buffalo
1999 Master of Science in Health Policy and Management Harvard University
1996 Bachelor of Arts in Health and Society
- Minor: American Sign Language University of Rochester
Licenses and Certifications:
New York State License in Audiology
Certificate of Clinical Competence, ASHA
Hearing Aid Dispensing License
Board Certification in Audiology, ABA
Awards/Honors:
- 2021 Academy Scholar – American Academy of Audiology (AAA)
- 2018 Health Care Champion, Buffalo Business First
- 2006 Sertoma Scholarship for Study of Communicative Disorders
- 2006 Audiology Foundation of America Student of the Year
Memberships:
- American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)
- American Academy of Audiology (AAA)
- Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA)
- New York State Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Specialty Areas:
- Videonystagmography (VNG) and Balance Function Testing
- Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMP)
- Auditory Evoked Potentials (ABR)
- Hearing aid and FM fittings