120 - Dave Fabry, Ph.D. - An Optimistic Viewpoint on the Future of Hearing Healthcare
Guest: Dave Fabry, Ph.D. - Chief Hearing Health Officer at Starkey Dr. Fabry sits down with Dave this week to discuss: - His start as an aspiring Veterinarian, which ultimately exposed him to Audiology (training Chinchillas to "perform" an audiogram) - Dave's PhD, time at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and Clinical Fellowship at The Mayo Clinic - The ACHIEVE study and Dave's big takeaways as both a clinician and researcher - The emerging use cases for biometric and acoustical data sets that are being captured and logged by Starkey's latest hearing aids - The evolution from machine learning-based applications to deep neural-net based applications for hearing aids - The case for why this is the most exciting time for Audiologists and Hearing Professionals broadly speaking, even with the existing and forthcoming challenges on the horizon - Career advice and words of wisdom from Dr. Fabry --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/futureear/message