He received a master’s degree in Audiology from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD in Medical Science from the University of Toronto. He has practiced as a clinical audiologist at the Canadian Hearing Society in Toronto and as an in-house audiologist for Bernafon Canada. Dr. Aiken’s research is focused on assessing audibility, auditory function and noise-induced damage using evoked responses. He is a past-president of the Canadian Academy of Audiology and currently serves as the co-director of medical research for the Hearing Foundation of Canada, associate editor of Canadian Audiologist, editor of Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, and chair of the Canadian Infant Hearing Task Force.