Our second Q&A event is focusing on research audiologists in military and VA settings and will take place on Zoom -- Monday, 7/19/2021, from 1-2PM CT. Please share the event with students and others who are interested in learning about careers in research audiology!

Meeting ID: 949 3841 5531

Passcode: RAISN!

https://zoom.us/j/94938415531?pwd=MlRrUTBmY01tTXdTelpHKzBxZGhVZz09 

Meet the panelists: 

                  Quintin Hecht                             Paula J. Myers                            Candice Manning Quinn

                Au.D, CCC-A, CPS/A                              PhD, CCC-A                                                AuD, PhD, FAAA

Quintin Hecht, Au.D, CCC-A, CPS/A

Research Audiologist, Project Manager
DoD Hearing Center of Excellence

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Dr. Hecht is a research audiologist and project manager for the Department of Defense (DoD) Hearing Center of Excellence (HCE) at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Dr. Hecht joined the DoD HCE in 2016 and currently also serves as an Army Reserve Audiologist for the Army Public Health Center. His experience includes Air Force active duty assignments as the U.S. Air Force Hearing Conservation Program Manager at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and clinical audiologist at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center. Dr. Hecht is licensed and board-certified, and received his AuD from Illinois State University. He is also certified as a Professional Supervisor of the Audiometric Monitoring Program and as a Course Director by the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC). Dr. Hecht’s research interests include boothless audiometry technology, acute auditory injury, audiology in public health, and education delivery methods.

Paula J. Myers, PhD, CCC-A
Chief, Audiology Section
James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital

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Dr. Myers is Chief of Audiology Section at Tampa VA Hospital. Former Teacher of Deaf-Blind. Authored/co-authored publications on tinnitus management and blast injury and auditory dysfunction.  Presented/co-presented nationally re: blast injury and auditory dysfunction, patient education, and tinnitus management.  Co-Principal Investigator on completed VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service(RR&D) grants. Former Chair of VA Southern Region Professional Standards Board.

Candice Manning Quinn, AuD, PhD, FAAA
VA RR&D Research Investigator; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Durham VAHCS
VA RR&D National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR)
Duke University, Department of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences

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Dr. Quinn received her Doctors of Audiology and Philosophy from East Carolina University in 2014 where she completed her dissertation on the evaluation and measurement of tinnitus perception through a self-designed smart device application. She completed a one-year post-doctoral fellowship with the United States Army Research Laboratory to study the effect of tinnitus on speech intelligibility in noise over military communications headsets and continued her post-doctoral career at the VA RR&D NCRAR in Portland, OR. At NCRAR, Dr. Quinn focused her research program on psychoacoustic evaluation and diagnosis of tinnitus, app-based development for tinnitus evaluation and sound therapies, and Progressive Tinnitus Management. She was recently awarded a VA RR&D Career Development Award – 2 to study the effects of Notched Noise Therapy on the perception of tinnitus within the Veteran population. Dr. Quinn is currently a Research Investigator and Assistant Professor at the Durham VA Health Care System and Duke University School of Medicine.

Save the date for the third, and final, session in the RAISN Q&A series in August focusing on research audiologists in academia.

Collaboration Corner

ASHA (@ashaweb) will be hosting an Instagram Live event with research audiologists on August 25th at 6pm ET (5pm CT). The Instagram Live event will focus on answering YOUR questions about transitioning careers from the clinic to the research lab. Join panelists Sarah Al-Salim, AuD (Boys Town National Research Hospital) and Lisa Park, AuD  (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) to learn why and how they made the career switch from clinical audiologist to research audiologist.

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