This Week in Hearing

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May. 17, 2022

Improving Quality of Life for At-risk Seniors: Interview with Andrew Hebert of Eversound Technology

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Hearing industry veteran Andrew Hebert is the COO of Eversound Technology and he joins This Week in Hearing for an interview. During this conversation Andrew shares how Eversound is trying to bring better hearing to an under-served segment of the population: older adults living in residential and assisted living communities. Andrew discusses the community burden of untreated hearing loss and
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May. 10, 2022

How do Direct-to-Consumer Hearing Aids Compare to Traditional Devices?

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Even though OTC devices don’t exist yet as an FDA-regulated product category, direct-to-consumer hearing devices have existed for decades. In this week’s episode of This Week in Hearing, Brian Taylor interviews Professor Sterling Sheffield, AuD, PhD, of the University of Florida. Professor Sheffield has authored soon-to-be-published research comparing DTC devices to medical grade hearing aids. During the interview, Sterling also
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May. 05, 2022

Future of Retail Hearing Care: Interview with Beltone President, Mike Halloran

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This week, host Bob Traynor sits down with Mike Halloran, the president of Beltone. As the nation’s leading hearing care retailer, Beltone has been paving the way in the hearing care industry for 82 years and has a network of 1,500 locations.   Being part of the Beltone network allows owners to remain independent while also being part of something
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May. 03, 2022

Living Skillfully with Hearing Loss: A Conversation with Gael Hannan and Shari Eberts

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This week, host Dave Kemp chats with Gael Hannan and Shari Eberts about living well with hearing loss. They discuss the motivation behind their new book, Hear & Beyond: Live Skillfully with Hearing loss, which they wrote as a how-to-guide for living successfully with hearing loss.  The pair believe it could not only benefit people in their hearing loss journey,
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Apr. 28, 2022

The Computational Audiology Network: A Conversation with Jan-Willem Wasmann

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Computational audiology is defined as the augmentation of traditional hearing healthcare by digital methods, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. This week, host Dave Kemp sits down with Jan-Willem Wasmann to talk about the potential of computational audiology to help more people in need of hearing healthcare service across the globe, and how it can help further improve the precision
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Apr. 26, 2022

Enabling Greater Access to Ear & Hearing Health Services: Interview with TympaHealth CEO, Dr. Krishan Ramdoo

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  TympaHealth, a UK-based startup, is premised on enabling people to access ear and health services quickly and efficiently. Their innovative technology enables allied healthcare professionals with an all-in-one mobile technology, Tympa System, that delivers otoscopy, micro suction wax removal, and hearing screener services. These services are then available in care settings such as pharmacies, optician offices, residential care homes,
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Apr. 20, 2022

Cell Therapy Treatment for Hearing Loss: Interview with Lineage Cell Therapeutics CEO, Brian Culley

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This week we tackle cell and gene therapy for hearing loss. To help us better understand the potential of allogeneic cell therapy we asked Brian Culley, CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics to describe how it works and how these types of pharmacologic treatments could stand side-by-side existing treatments such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. Be sure to subscribe to
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Apr. 19, 2022

Challenges and Blessings of Navigating Hearing Loss in Children: Interview with Heather Thomson

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This week, celebrity influencer and hearing advocate, Heather Thomson sits down with Shari Eberts to address the challenges and blessings of navigating hearing loss in children and empowering her son to own his hearing health as he enters adulthood. Heather recently partnered with ReSound to help raise awareness of the hearing loss stigma surrounding young adults and adolescents. During her
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Apr. 13, 2022

Virtual Facetime with Candidates for President of the American Academy of Audiology

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If you are a member of the American Academy of Audiology, and you have yet to cast your vote for president-elect, this special episode of This Week in Hearing is well worth your time. Both candidates, Bopanna Ballachanda and Rebekah Cunningham, sat down with TWIH to chat about their career paths and the vision they have for the profession. Be
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Apr. 12, 2022

What the Research Can Tell Us About Consumer-Driven Hearing Healthcare: Interview with Vinaya Manchaiah, PhD

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From picking a restaurant on a Saturday night to choosing a new dentist, all of us seem to rely more and more on online reviews. In this episode of This Week in Hearing, Vinaya Manchaiah, professor at the University of Colorado Medical School talks us through the consumer on-line review research his team of collaborators have conducted over the past