Dr. Janis Oram is a Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Health Sciences. She is also a Principal Investigator in the National Centre for Audiology, member of the Western Institute for Neuroscience, and Scientist in the Children's Health Research Institute. She completed a PhD in Speech-Language Pathology and a CIHR Fellowship in Medical Imaging at the University of Toronto. She is a speech-language pathologist by training (McGill University), having practiced for nine years at Sickkids in Toronto prior to joining Western in 2005.

Dr. Oram leverages her clinical, research, and leadership expertise to support children with communication challenges, their families, and the clinicians and systems who serve them. Her basic science research examines the neurophysiologic underpinnings of language development and disorders in children. Her practice-based research seeks to evaluate and improve community-based speech-language pathology services for children who are autistic, deaf/hard-of-hearing, or have other neurodevelopmental challenges.