Experts List
TOPIC: Noise and Hearing Loss:
It’s How You Listen That Counts
How Loud Is Too Loud?
House Clinic physicians available to comment on this story:
John W. House, M.D.
Associate, House Clinic (House Ear Clinic)
President, House Ear Institute
Clinical Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Southern California and UC Irvine
Expertise: General Otology and Neurotology; Noise in the environment, the effects of noise on hearing and methods of prevention; Cochlear implants and implantable hearing devices; Skull-base surgical procedures of the ear and treatment of hearing loss and related disorders.
Author: Dr. House is widely published on a variety of hearing subjects and serves on editorial boards of several medical journals.
Jennifer Derebery, M.D.
Associate, House Clinic (House Ear Clinic)
Immediate Past President, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Expertise: General Otology; Allergies in general and as they relate to the ear, hearing loss and related disorders; Noise in the environment, the effects of noise on hearing and methods of prevention; Auto-immune Inner Ear Disease (AIED).
Author: Dr. Derebery has authored numerous papers on otolaryngology and allergy, particularly as related to otologic conditions.
William H. Slattery, III, M.D.
Associate, House Clinic (House Ear Clinic)
Director, Clinical Studies, House Ear Institute
Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Southern California (USC)
Expertise: General Otology and Neurotology; Noise in the environment, the effects of noise on hearing and methods of prevention; Cochlear implants and implantable hearing devices; Treatment of acoustic neuromas, neurofibromatosis Type II and facial nerve disorders.
Author: Dr. Slattery has authored numerous papers on hearing disorders and serves as editor for two medical journals.
Alternate Experts for Interviews: All physicians of the House Clinic have expertise in otology/neurotology
House Ear Institute researchers and staff available to comment on this story:
Sig Soli, Ph.D.
VP, Technology Transfer for HEI
Director, Human Communications Science & Devices Department
Expertise: Noise in the environment, the effects of noise on hearing and methods of prevention; Hearing aids and devices; and hearing diagnostics.
Author: Dr. Soli has published on a variety of hearing subjects and has been quoted on the topic of hearing health for multiple media stories.
Andy Vermiglio, M.A., CCC-A
Research Audiologist, House Ear Institute
Expertise: Noise in the environment, the effects of noise on hearing, methods of hearing loss prevention; Hearing aids and devices; and hearing diagnostics.
Author: Vermiglio has authored and co-authored numerous papers on hearing health and acoustics, particularly as related to functional hearing in noise. He has provided comments for multiple media stories, as an audiologist and also a professional musician who has noise-induced hearing loss.
Marilee Potthoff, Director, Marketing Department, House Ear Institute
Director, It’s How You Listen That Counts™ Campaign
Director, Sound Partners™ hearing conservation program
Expertise: Strategies forreaching the public with effective messages on hearing health to influence attitudes and behaviors; outreach programs and consumer awareness campaigns of the House Ear Institute; noise in the environment, the effects of loud sound on hearing and methods of hearing loss prevention; hearing loss among music and audio professionals.
Author: Potthoff has authored articles and materials on noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) for music, pro-audio and hearing health publications.
Alternate Expert for Interviews: Jose Fayad, M.D., can provide Spanish-language interviews
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kirsten Holguin
Communications Manager
House Ear Institute (HEI)
(213) 353-7081
kholguin@hei.org
Web: www.hei.org
Web links to Sound Partners™ and Noise & Hearing Loss Information: http://www.hei.org/soundpartners/soundparts.htm
Consumer Awareness Campaign Information:
www.earbud.org
It’s How You Listen That Counts® is a consumer awareness campaign of the House Ear Institute’s Sound Partners™ hearing conservation program.
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