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10/10/2015  |   3:15 PM - 4:00 PM   |  Andrew Foster Auditorium

Designing a Model Program to Maximize Impact for Global Hearing Health

Everyone in attendance at this conference is well aware of the statistics: globally, nearly one in ten have measurable hearing loss, and 360 million individuals have a “disabling” degree of impairment. In most developed and developing countries, there are shortages of audiologists, ENT physicians, speech therapists, and other personnel capable of providing hearing healthcare. Our collective passion for raising awareness for the importance of hearing as a universal health issue is not in question; there is, however, considerable debate over how to develop scalable, sustainable methods for hearing aid selection, fitting, and follow-up. At issue is the ethics of developing community-based approaches that sacrifice “best practice” methods employed in developed countries versus clinical-based approaches that forgo scalability to achieve precision. This session will address Starkey Hearing Foundation’s multi-phase approach to providing a scalable, sustainable, model of global hearing healthcare. Discussion will include development of community-based volunteer training programs, university/clinical partnerships, and a focus on comparison of prescriptive versus comparative fitting models on initial and long-term patient satisfaction. Audience participation is likely.

• Participants will learn about the correlation between the audiogram and hearing aid gain/output
• Participants will identify the differences between comparative and presecriptive hearing aid fitting approaches
• Participants will be able to articulate the multi-phase, community-based model of hearing healthcare used by SHF

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Dave Fabry (POC,Primary Presenter), Starkey Hearing Technologies, dave_fabry@starkey.com;
Dave Fabry is currently Vice President of Audiology and Professional Relations at Starkey Hearing Technologies, where he has been employed since 2009. Previously, he was Chief of Audiology at Mayo Clinic (1994-2002) and the University of Miami (2007-2009), and Vice-President of Audiology and Professional Relations for Phonak Hearing Systems (2002-2007). He is a past Board Member (1997-2002) and President (2001) of the American Academy of Audiology, and is currently the Editor of Audiology Today.