West Coast Hearing & Balance Center - Thousand Oaks

Carissa Bennett, Audiologist and Director of Operations, graduated with honors from UC Santa Barbara in Speech and Hearing Science, earned a Masters in Audiology from the University of Washington, and an AuD in Audiology from the Arizona School of Health Sciences. She has previously worked with patients as an Audiologist at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles, with an emphasis on medical-legal audiology with Aram Glorig, MD, and hearing aid research with James Sheehy, MD. Dr. Bennett is experienced in working with infants, children, and adults, and specializes in diagnostic audiological evaluations, hearing aid evaluations and hearing aid dispensing. She is Board Certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. 

Dr. Gregory Frazer is the Director of Audiology at West Coast Hearing and Balance Center in Thousand Oaks. He has over a decade of experience helping people achieve their hearing healthcare goals. He holds a certificate of clinical competence in audiology from the American Speech Language Hearing Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Audiology and the National Certification in Hearing Instrument Sciences. Dr. Frazer owned and operated Hearing Care Associates and is well known as a clinician as well as an Adjunct Professor at UC San Diego/San Diego State University. 

Jennifer graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1993, then went on to earn an MA in Audiology from the University of Northern Colorado. She has spent the past 15 years gaining extensive experience in Audiology by working at the California Ear Institute at Stanford, Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Children’s Hospital of Oakland, and the Michigan ENT Consultants. Jennifer is Board Certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She specializes in working with infants and children, as well as adults.

Dr. Schauwecker is our newest audiologist and we are very happy she has joined our staff in 2011. She earned her AuD from the University of Louisville then worked at Orange County Physicians’ Hearing Services for five years. Emily's special interests include diagnostic audiological evaluations, vestibular evaluations, and hearing aids for infants, children and adults. She is Board Certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and American Board of Audiology.