Introducing Starkey Sound Bites

Starkey Sound Bites host Dr. Dave Fabry introduces himself and the podcast. Monthly episodes will follow. Thanks for listening!

Link to full transcript

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hi there, I'm Dave Fabry, Chief Innovation Officer at Starkey, and now the host of our new podcast, Starkey Soundbites. I've spent my career in the hearing healthcare space. I first wanted to become an audiologist because I had experiences with individuals, family members who had hearing loss, and realized how disconnected they felt from the world when they began to experience early symptoms related to their hearing loss. After I became, I have three degrees below zero at the University of Minnesota. I achieved my bachelor's, master's, and PhD in hearing science and audiology, and then spent the early part of my career in academic clinical and medical environments, working at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Mayo Clinic in the sunny southeastern tropical portion of the state of Minnesota. And then I did a brief stint in the tropics down at the University of Miami Medical Center. I joined Starkey in 2009, where I now serve as chief innovation officer working to help develop the new and emerging technology to meet the needs or exceed the needs of those with hearing loss. But then I also get to talk and work with patients and hearing care professionals, audiologists, and dispensers who provide the gift of hearing to those with hearing loss. I'm excited for the conversations that we'll be having on this podcast. My dad used to say you have two ears and one mouth, and I'll try to use those in proportion to the way that they exist on my body to really absorb what our experts at Starkey and also within the profession have to share about hearing and balance loss and my favorite topic, new technologies that are designed to change hearing aids from single-purpose devices into multi-purpose, multifunction ones. We'll also be talking about new studies related to hearing and balance, new research, and the ways that hearing aids now enable you to connect directly to your Android or iPhone to listen to podcasts like this, stream videos and music, and really transform hearing aids into something that instead of people feeling like they have to wear, that they want to have. Look for a new episode on the first Wednesday of each month, and we're excited to have you join us on this new podcasting adventure. Be sure you don't miss a single episode. Subscribe to this podcast whenever and wherever you get your podcast. And thanks so much for listening.