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Senso Diva Award adjudication members | Chairman: Dr Robert Sweetow, Director of the University of California, San Francisco Audiology Clinic
Principal dancer Silja Schandorff, the Royal Danish Theater
Coach Morten Olsen, the national Danish football team
Editor-in-chief Kurt Osterwald, Hörakustik (Germany)
Singer and musician Lotte Rømer (Denmark)
Chairman: Dr Robert Sweetow | Ph.D from Northwestern University, MA from University of Southern California. Dr Robert Sweetow is the Director of Audiology and Clinical Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests include amplification, counselling and rehabilitation, neuroscience and clinical management of the tinnitus patient.
Dr Robert Sweetow has written fourteen textbook chapters and over 80 scientific journals and is the author/editor of Counselling for Hearing Aid Fittings. Furthermore, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Audiology and former co-editor of the AAA Consumer Website. He is also a highly sought after speaker world-wide and well-known for his informative and entertaining style.
Singer, musician, composer, actress, author, essayist and lecturer. Lotte Rømer is a notable singer and musician in Denmark. Her career as a musician and performer spans more than 30 years entailing a wide range of compositions for several theatres including ballet and opera, and for the show business in general where she has been noted for her many cabarets. She has given musical performances in Scandinavia, Germany, France and Spain comprising of more than 2000 shows.
Lotte Rømer also has a severe hearing loss and is devoted to helping people with hearing difficulties and raising the awareness about hearing related issues in society. So far, she has given more than 300 lectures on sound, hearing and hearing difficulties in schools, colleges and for various organisations. In addition, she has had a number of articles and essays on sound and hearing published in the general media, and has participated in radio and TV programmes.
Silja Schandorff trained at the Ballet School of the Royal Theatre in Denmark. She became an apprentice in 1985, and in 1987 she was engaged as a ballet dancer by the Royal Danish Ballet, where she was appointed soloist in 1991 and principal dancer in 1992.
Silja Schandorff has danced a number of leading roles with the Royal Danish Ballet, including Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Aurora in Sleeping Beauty, Kitri in Don Quixote, the title roles in La Sylphide and Giselle, Hippolyta and Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Death in Serait-ce La Mort and Therpsichore in Apollon. Further she has danced major roles in Agon, Allegro Brilliante, Yesterday, Witness, Gaité Parisienne and Suite en Blanc.
Silja Schandorff was awarded the First Prize in The Erik Bruhn Competition in 1989 and received the European Prize in 2000 and the Reumert Prize for Best Dancer in 2002.
Coach for the national Danish football team and a legend in the world of football. Morten Olsen belongs to a very exclusive club of football players who have played more than 100 games for a national team.
Morten Olsen started his career in the Danish club Vordingborg BK and during his professional years he played for RSC Anderlecht in Belgium, FC Köln in Germany as well as the Danish national team.
In 1989, he played his final game for the Danish national team, game number 102 against Brazil. In 1990, he started to work as coach for Brøndby IF, a team from the Copenhagen area. Later on, he became coach for the German team FC Köln, the Dutch Ajax Amsterdam and in July 2000 he took on a new challenge and became the coach of the national Danish football team. He recently renewed his contract for another four years.
Editor-in-chief of the leading German magazine on audiology. Kurt Osterwald, born in Western Prussia in 1942, has been editor-in-chief of the Median Verlag publishing house in Heidelberg, Germany, and its Hearing Acoustics Journal, ‘Hörakustik’, since 1972.
He writes articles on questions dealing with audiology, hearing acoustics and ENT medicine. For years, the trained journalist and publisher has also been writing about cultural topics including freelance work for ‘Orpheus’, a notable music magazine in Berlin.
In 1992, he was appointed managing director of the Median Verlag, which is a well established publishing house with specialists in the field. He is the recipient of the German Hearing Impaired Association’s Golden Pin of Honours and was also awarded the German Ophthalmologists Median Prize.
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