This Week in Hearing

Envoy Medical® Corporation recently announced that the FDA has approved its Investigational Device Exemption application to begin a clinical trial with its fully implanted Acclaim® cochlear implant. The single-center Early Feasibility Study for the Acclaim will take place at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  

In this week's episode, Brian Taylor sits down with Envoy Medical CEO, Brent Lucas to discuss the company's Acclaim CI and clinical trial.   

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In this episode, Ashley Hughes is joined by Riley DeBacker with a discussion on LGBTQ+ inclusivity in the audiology profession. They discuss how clinicians can be more inclusive with their patients and co-workers.  

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This week, Ashley Hughes is joined by Audrey Taylor, a clinical audiologist in Texas, to discuss her experience as a student and now as a clinician with hearing loss. Dr. Taylor helped create and develop the Student Academy of Audiology's resources for students with hearing loss, and continues to serve as an advisor to the group.   

In this episode she also offers advice for colleagues and those working with people with hearing loss on how they can help support their peers who have hearing loss.  

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Today, a growing number of audiology practices are looking at ways to expand and differentiate their clinic offerings. In today's episode, Heather Mayluk talks with Brad Stewart about what it takes to begin and grow a mobile audiology practice.  

Dr. Stewart has extensive experience in mobile audiology, having grown a mobile practice to over seven figures in collected revenue in under 3 years, and now provides consulting services to other practice owners.  

Transcript available: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/2022/malyuk-stewart-mobile-audiology/

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The new mantra in hearing care is to meet the patient where they are. One segment of hearing care within this service delivery domain is assisted living care.   

In this segment, Hank Sarazin, CEO and Founder of Onsite Hearing Care, discusses how his company has grown to be one of the largest, and most successful, providers of hearing health services to independent and assisted living communities in the Northeast.  https://onsitehearingcare.com/

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The Northern Virginia Resource Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Persons (NVRC) is a non-profit organization that empowers Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and their families through education and community involvement.   

NVRC does not directly diagnose and treat patients; instead, they offer a myriad of educational materials and technologies for patients, their families, and their providers.   

In this episode, Amyn Amlani sits down with NVRC staff members Dr. Joan Ehrlich, Bonnie O’Leary, and Debbie Jones on their various community outreach strategies, many of which could be implemented in a traditional private practice.  

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Kate Carr, Executive Director of the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), joins Brian Taylor to discuss some of the key findings in the latest MarkeTrak 2022 report.  Since 1989, HIA has been collecting data on the estimated incidence of hearing loss within the U.S., household income and education related to hearing aid use, satisfaction with hearing instruments, new user rates by age, mental and physical health effects of hearing loss, and many others.

Kate also reviews HIA's new public awareness campaign, Hear Well, which can be found at: https://www.hearing.org/

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The ecosystem of hearing care service delivery continues to evolve as technology enables patients to self-fit their amplification intervention.  

In this episode, David Akbari, AuD, Senior Medical Science, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs Liaison at Intricon Corporation shares the research methods and outcomes of Intricon’s self-fitting amplification technology called Sentibo. In particular, Dr. Akbari shares the nuances of how the Sentibo device uses a proprietary algorithm that is not based on traditional hearing prescriptive models, and yet provides optimized audibility and sound quality to the end user.  

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Nick Hunn, the analyst who coined the term 'hearable', sits down with Dave Kemp to talk about Auracast™ Bluetooth broadcast audio and the significant implications it will have for people with hearing loss, as well as the general public once the technology becomes widely available.  

Auracast™ broadcast audio enables an audio transmitter, such as a smartphone, laptop, television, or public address system to broadcast audio to an unlimited number of nearby Bluetooth audio receivers, including speakers, earbuds, or hearing devices.  

Read the Bluetooth SIG announcement of Auracast™ here: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/blog/2022/auracast-audio-bluetooth-hearing-aids/ 

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This special episode highlights audiologists who are members of the LGBTQ+ community and their contributions to the profession.   

They discuss how their identities and careers intertwine and how to best foster an inclusive and compassionate clinical experience for LGBTQ+ providers and patients alike.  

*Kathleen Wallace, Au.D. (She/her/hers) is an audiologist based in New York City. She works clinically for the largest healthcare system in New York State, virtually as the Head of Provider Education at Tuned, and in the classroom as an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. Kathleen also dabbles with social media, running an educational TikTok called the Ear Doc of TikTok. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife, their son, and dog.  *Cassie Fuller, Au.D. (she/her) is an industry audiologist based out of Chatham, NY. She currently works as a Clinical Education specialist serving New England, Downstate New York, and New Jersey. Cassie identifies as a lesbian and lives with her wife and rescue dog. *Jonathan Neukam Au.D. CNIM (he/him) is a research audiologist based in New York City. He works in the Laboratory for Translational Auditory Research at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, focusing on the adaptation process after cochlear implantation. In addition, he is an adjunct assistant professor at the CUNY Graduate Center. Jonathan identifies as a gay man and lives with his partner Sebastian, their 19 year old cat, and two west highland terriers.  *Henry Botzum, AuD, (he/they) is an industry audiologist based in Massachusetts.  He currently works as a Regional Sales Manager for New England in the hearing aid industry following his work as lead clinical audiologist at Berkshire Medical Center in Western Massachusetts. Henry is active in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging advocacy, presenting at National and Regional conferences and serves on the DEIB and Membership committees for AAA and as the Vice President of Clinical Practice for the Massachusetts Speech and Hearing Association. In addition to audiology, Henry holds advanced degrees in Music Performance.  *L. Dawn Flinn MS CCC-A is an audiologist based in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is the owner of earEVERYTHING where she specializes in hearing conservation programs in motor sport. For the last 22 years, Dawn has worked with individual drivers, crew, safety staff, photographers and media, as well as their families. In addition she works as a contractor in industrial settings and with musicians for hearing protection and education.  *Kyle Langfitt, Au.D. (he/him) is a clinical audiologist based in Indiana. He currently works  at a mid-sized hospital in rural Indiana with clinical interests in electrophysiology and cochlear implantation. Prior to becoming an audiologist, Kyle worked for nearly a decade as an American Sign Language interpreter. In his free time, he likes to explore new hiking trails and try new recipes.