Kerynn Constable

Kerynn joined the team in October 2022 with a wealth of experience. She completed her undergraduate degree in 2003 from the University of Stellenbosch and gathered clinical experience working in the UK for several years, before completing a Masters degree in Early Childhood Intervention at the University of Pretoria.
Kerynn consistently demonstrates tremendous attention to detail and is highly practical. Kerynn enjoys that audiology allows her to build partnerships with her patients to ensure that they are equal and active partners in managing their hearing care by sharing knowledge and decisions that empower them and make a difference to their quality of life. She is passionate about early identification and intervention for both children and adults with hearing loss. Kerynn works at the practice two days a week. She enjoys gardening, outdoor sports and is also a mom to a little boy.

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Paige Tucker

Paige joined the team in January 2021, after completing her masters degree with distinction at the University of Pretoria and her community service year at Alexandra clinic. Paige is dedicated to giving her patients the optimal experience and care. Paige has a special interest in the area of auditory brainstem response testing as well as auditory processing, as she loves understanding how the brain makes sense of sound. She thoroughly enjoys the diagnostic side of audiology as her passion lies in solving problems and gaining knowledge while doing so. She loves connecting with her patients and believes that patient centered care is the key to successfully helping patients to achieve their desired outcomes for improved quality of life.

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Bianka Niebuhr

Bianka joined the practice in March 2019, after completing her master’s degree through the University of Pretoria and completing her community service year. Bianka is skilled in hearing aid programming and verification due to her astute nature, and attention to detail. Bianka enjoys paediatric audiology and demonstrates patience and joy when working with our youngest patients. She also enjoys auditory brainstem testing and vestibular testing which allows for deep diagnostic work with her patients. She experiences deep empathy with her patients and strives to make every appointment a memorable one.

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Tanya Hanekom

Tanya is the founder director of the practice, an audiologist with fifteen years of clinical experience in private practice. Tanya’s passion lies in hearing aid programming with verification as she enjoys solving difficult hearing aid fittings. She also enjoys conducting diagnostic assessments because of the amount of time we are able to dedicate to taking detailed medical history and unpacking complicated symptoms to find a diagnosis. Tanya obtained her undergraduate qualification from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2006 and Masters degree in Communication Pathology from the University of Pretoria in 2014. Tanya lives with her family in St Francis Bay where she has a small practice and runs the business aspects of Sandton Hearing & Balance. She continues to commute to Johannesburg for one week per month to consult with her existing patients.

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Administrative Staff

Florence Otieno

Florence joined our practice in 2016 as the receptionist and today she is the Patient Care Coordinator (PCC) at the Mediclinic Sandton branch. She handles all appointments, billing, hearing instrument processing, orders and repairs. Florence has a wealth of experience in medical reception work having worked at orthopaedic surgery, cardiothoracic surgery and wound clinic amongst others. Originally from Kenya, Florence has been living in Johannesburg since 2006.

Valen Webster

Valen joined our team in July 2019 to fill the role of Accounts Manager. Valen deals with the medical aids, resolves queries and follows up on bad debt. Valen is also the warm presence of receptionist at our Bryanston Gate branch.

The audiologists at Sandton Hearing & Balance are proud members of
the South African Association of Audiologists (SAAA )