Preventing Decline with Neuroscientist Dr. Keith N. Darrow
The mission of the Dr. Darrow Podcast is to help you live your best life - by empowering you with the keys to active aging that can keep physical decline, and dementia, at bay! Dr. Darrow interviews some of the worlds leading health experts and offers life-changing wellness advice during his popular lectures.
Preventing Decline with Neuroscientist Dr. Keith N. Darrow
Global Leadership In Audiology with Rob Shepheard
Rob Shepheard is a Consultant and a Clinical Audiologist. Rob worked for 38 years in hospitals and clinics, helping assess and treat people with hearing and balance disorders. He specializes in auditory rehabilitation, tinnitus treatment, and prevention of induced auditory conditions. For the last 25 years in addition to his clinical role, he has worked in diverse environments from industry to motorsport preventing sound-induced auditory injury. In 1999 after working with motorsport teams, he was invited to present on 'risk of exposure to noise in motorsport' at the inaugural safety summit of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA). In 2000, he was asked to undertake research on the subject of Formula 1. In 2008, he presented at the FIA Institute's safety summit in Bahrain on best practice hearing conservation in the sport. He was the British Society of Audiology's advisor on hearing conservation and prevention of hearing loss on NHS England's 2015 Action Plan on Hearing Loss.
He is currently an audiologist for the Royal College of Music, Healthy Conservatoires Network, and the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine. For the BAPAM and HCN, he has co-authored with his colleague Dr. Finola Ryan, best practice guidelines published by BAPAM to protect the auditory health of all performers and musicians in the UK. He is an audiologist for the UK Night Time Industries Association, representing over 1,300 UK venues and event organizers. He is chair of the UK Hearing Conservation Association’s Music and Entertainment SIG, and a UK expert sitting on the UK and European CEN technical committees responsible for the regulatory standards relating to hearing protection. He is also an active member of the World Health Organization’s Make Listening Safe working group and was a minor contributor to the global standards for safe listening in venues and events published by WHO.
In this episode we discuss:
1. How did Rob get to where he is today?
2. How and why we should continue to be evolving audiology?
3. What's the validity of the audiogram? Can we do more?
4. Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline within the World Health Organization.