About me
I worked as a research assistant and senior psychologist at the Clinic for Phoniatrics and Paediatric Audiology at Münster University Hospital until the end of 2023. I am a licensed psychotherapist.
In my role as former head of the Westphalia-Lippe Hearing Screening Centre and in my many years as managing director of the Association of German Hearing Screening Centres (VDHZ e.V.), I am very familiar with the day-to-day problems of a hearing screening centre as well as with statistical, telematic, organisational, legal and economic problems in this field.
My work focused primarily on the interface problems of newborn hearing screening programmes in federally organised countries such as Germany. These include the development of an automated bidirectional data exchange between different screening devices and different tracking software with industry partners, a multi-centre online benchmarking system for maternity clinics and the development of concepts for cross-project and cross-state tracking and telemedical extensions of newborn hearing screening.
As a member of the successful bidding consortium, I was involved in the two previous nationwide evaluations of newborn hearing screening in Germany on behalf of the German Joint Federal Committee (GBA).
Publications on Newborn Hearing Screening
(a selection)
- Matulat, P., Parfitt, R. The Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in Germany. Int. J. Neonatal Screen. 2018, 4, 29. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijns4030029
- Matulat, P., Stroe, S., am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen, A. Regionenübergreifendes Tracking im Neugeborenen-Hörscreening. HNO 65, 1008–1013 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00106-017-0424-y
- Matulat P., Lepper I., BöttcherP., Parfitt R., Oswald O., am Zehnhoff-Dinnesen A., Deuster D. Two-Way Radio Modem Data Transfer for Newborn Hearing Screening Devices. Telemedicine and e-Health.Jan 2017.49-54. http://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2016.0009
- Matulat, P., Fabian, S., Köhn, A. et al. Quality of universal newborn hearing screening results : Multicenter analysis of data recorded between 2009 and 2012 in four German states. HNO 62, 171–179 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00106-013-2817-x
- Matulat, P., Parfitt, R. Neugeborenenhörscreeening - Rechtliche, medizinische, organisatorische, finanzielle, strukturelle und technische Aspekte zum Neugeborenenhörscreening in Deutschland. Frühförderung interdisziplinär, 37. Jg, S. 5-13 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.2378/fi2018.art01d