IFA, MWC, CES: Hearing aids are entering new territory
By Dennis Kraus, Audio Infos Germany At the IFA preview in early July 2016 in Hamburg, ReSound Germany Executive Director Joachim Gast explained to Audio Infos Germany why the company decided to have its own stand at big consumer electronic fairs like the IFA in Berlin or the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona,…
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Metz – Lessons from Other Places
To paraphrase from a little joke that went around some time ago: “Our field is unique, just like every other field”. There are likely some semi-universal truths, and therefore likely lots of lessons audiology can learn from others, if we listen and take heed. Why is it important that we learn from others? How about…
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Will Another Year of Disruption Lead to Unity Among Hearing Professionals? Not Likely, But it Should!
By Michael Collins, AuD My fellow hearing professionals, disruption is at our doorstep. I doubt that most of you would have thought just a few short years ago that our industry would be turned on its head in such a short amount of time by the likes of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS),…
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Geary A. McCandless (1930 -2017), Audiologist and Renaissance Man
by Jerry L. Northern, PhD and Darrel L. Teter, PhD Audiology lost an illustrious leader from the Golden Age of Audiology (1960 – 1990) with the passing of Geary McCandless on January 4, 2017. Those who knew him recognized his talents as a modern Renaissance man, i.e., a cultured person who is well informed, educated,…
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Claude-Henri Chouard: Anatomy of a Visionary Surgeon
by Bruno Scala, Audio Infos France 40 years ago, Professor Claude-Henri Chouard performed the first cochlear implant. It was on September 22, 1976. A medical breakthrough that made history and that was possible only thanks to his boldness, perseverance, and talent. Professor Chouard and those who worked with him at that time, Patrick MacLeod,…
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Hearing Fitness-for-Work Protocols
by Mike Metz Compensation for hearing-impaired workers has been sort of on the back burner for many years. Audiologists are occasionally called upon to measure and compute the hearing disability associated with hearing injuries resulting from workplace noise exposure. A potentially larger issue of workplace hearing loss involves “fitness for duty” decisions. Audiologists are…
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