Dr. Drew Dundas - The Need for Treatment and Hearing Aids

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Dr. Drew Dundas is an audiologist, scientist, and the Chief Technology Officer for the Earlens Corporation. At Earlens, Dr. Dundas leads their research and technological innovation as they continue to improve their state-of-the-art hearing aids. He has been with the company for over five years, starting as the Director of Audiological Technology and Innovation before transitioning to the Vice President of Audiology & Product Strategy and his role today as the CTO.

Across almost 20 years, Dr. Dundas has worked in many capacities in the audiology industry. He has served as the President and Chief Technical Officer for Soundhawk as well as the Director of Audiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He received his PhD in audiology and biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University, where he also served as a Staff Audiologist in their medical center.

In this episode…

While hearing aids are a crucial piece of the better hearing puzzle, they’re not the only thing that matters. So much goes into our hearing that factory settings alone cannot fix the problem. Even with more effective hearing aids being manufactured, they are still not enough to compensate for most cases of hearing loss.

Proper treatment requires doctors with hands-on experience to know what you need. They are the only ones that will be able to accurately and truly know the extent of your hearing loss. But just how essential is that additional treatment?

On this episode of the ListenUp! podcast, Dr. Mark Syms invites back Dr. Drew Dundas, the Chief Technology Officer of the Earlens Corporation, to learn about how treatment and hearing aids go hand in hand. The two discuss the most recent research and what it says about the current state of hearing loss care. They then go further into the science of hearing aids, why most devices are incorrectly tuned, and how the issue can be fixed.