Guest: Liz White, AuD, ABA Certified - Dr. White details her experience in opening her own private practice that focuses on patient-centered care and utilizes evidence-based practice. She provides insights into the challenges and rewards of this specialized form of practice, first steps for audiologists interested in a similar path, and pitfalls to watch out for on the road to ownership ..read more

Guest: Lisa Park, AuD, CCC-A - Dr. Park reviews the progression of pediatric cochlear implant candidacy, including research that has led to modern expanded indications. She discusses current candidacy guidelines, the challenges of insurance coverage, and how families can be counseled through the cochlear implantation process ..read more

Guest: Erin Piker, AuD, PhD, CCC-A - Dr. Piker describes her current lab structure, where CSD undergraduates, AuD students, and PhD students work collaboratively to conduct vestibular research. She explains the importance of undergraduate involvement in research, both for future SLPs and Audiologists. Additionally, she provides helpful insights into her research on the connection between diabetes and the vestibular system ..read more

Guest: Melanie Morris, AuD, CCC-A - Dr. Morris and Dr. Sharp discuss Georgia’s new Mobile Audiology Program, which seeks to identify, diagnose, and treat the most underserved children across the state. She and her interdisciplinary team work to aid the populations most at risk of late identification: low income areas, rural areas, and ESL families ..read more

Guest: Margaret Dillon, AuD., Ph.D - Dr. Meg Dillon shares the history of treatment for single-sided deafness (SSD), how cochlear implants have become a good intervention option for this population, and how our approach to programming CI for SSD has evolved. Her new approaches include incorporating imaging and addressing frequency mismatch ..read more

Guest: Matthew Bush, MD, PhD, MBA, FACS - Dr. Matthew Bush is a leader in the field of research regarding disparities in hearing healthcare. He shares his work in assessing these disparities and what clinicians can practically do to begin addressing these gaps and barriers to care ..read more

Meredith Berger is the Director of Clarke School New York, a leader in the field of early intervention for children who are deaf and hard of hearing, and parent of a child with bilateral microtia/atresia. She discusses her experiences and the connections across these disciplines, as well as provides an in-depth discussion of microtia and atresia ..read more

Guest: Derek Stiles, PhD, CCC-A - Dr. Stiles is the Director of the Diagnostic Audiology Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, and his team recently developed metrics for measuring productivity in their department. In this episode, he describes their process for developing wRVUs, how it affects workflow, and how current clinicians can incorporate these ideas into their productivity metrics ..read more

Guest: Teddy McRackan, MD - The guest shares his work evaluating the poor correlation between cochlear implant speech recognition scores and patient-reported outcome measures. Discussion explores how we can improve pre-CI evaluations and patient expectations, as well as a new tool developed to assess CI Quality of Life ..read more

Guest: J. Riley DeBacker, AuD, Ph.D. - Mentorship is a topic not often formally taught but critical to the success of professionals in a variety of backgrounds. Not only can mentorship benefit mentees, but also mentors and the profession as a whole. Dr. DeBacker shares his insights on the impact mentorship has played in his career, and how those not currently engaged can seek it out ..read more