Bopanna Ballachanda, PhD, teaches at Texas Tech University Health Sciences. He has held faculty positions at Purdue University and the University of New Mexico. He served twice as a member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Audiology. He incorporated tele-audiology practices to efficiently manage multiple clinics he owned in the southwest part of the United States.
Harvey Abrams, PhD, has held academic, clinical, research, and administrative positions within the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, academia, and private industry in a career spanning more than 45 years. He currently serves as the head of research audiology at Lively Hearing Corporation, a tele-audiology-focused company.
James W. Hall III, PhD, is an internationally recognized audiologist with more than 40 years of clinical, teaching, and research experience. He is a professor (part-time) at Salus University and the University of Hawaii, a visiting professor at American University in Beirut, and an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Vinaya Manchaiah, AuD, PhD, MBA, is the Jo Mayo Endowed Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. His research mainly focuses on improving the accessibility, affordability, and outcomes of hearing and balance disorders by promoting self-management and using digital technologies.
Derek Minihane is the vice president of Connected Care Innovations at Cochlear Limited, where he leads the global teams responsible for creating connectivity solutions that connect Cochlear, its clinical partners, and its recipients to create better products and customer experiences. He passionately believes that connectivity and data will drive personalized delivery of care that will lead to better outcomes for individual patients and society.
Samantha Kleindienst Robler, AuD, PhD, is a population health informatics lead at Norton Sound Health Corporation in remote Northwest Alaska and an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Her clinical and research interests include innovating and improving tools that address accessibility to hearing health care, including telemedicine and health technology development and application in the clinical setting, as well as addressing global hearing health and public health policy in the hearing-health-care delivery system.
De Wet Swanepoel, PhD, is a professor in audiology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and a visiting professor in Australia, Sweden, and the United States. His research capitalizes on connected technologies to explore, develop, and evaluate innovative solution and service-delivery models to improve hearing care. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Audiology, past president of the International Society of Audiology, and co-founder of the hearX group.
