Senior Director of Clinical Research
Earlens Corporation
Dr. Suzanne Carr Levy, PhD, was born in Perth, Australia and grew up in California. She was born with single-sided hearing impairment as a result of congenital atresia. She obtained her Bachelors in Science studying bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Because of her personal experience with monaural hearing, she went on to study binaural hearing at Professor Steve Colburn's lab at Boston University, where she graduated with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Her thesis focused on the effects of pitch, spatial separation, and reverberation on speech understanding in normal and hearing-impaired listeners.
She started working at Earlens Corporation in 2010, first as a research audiologist conducting the first feasibility trial and moving up to manage the clinical trials on subsequent generations of the Earlens device, including the one used to gain FDA clearance for marketing. As the Director of Clinical Research at Earlens her research interests include everything about a direct-drive hearing aid that differentiates it from and acoustic aid, and continuous learning and understanding about this unique technology. When she is not at Earlens, she spends her time with her 2 daughters.
Financial Disclosures: I do not have any relevant financial relationships with anything to disclose.
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RP301 - Streaming in a Café: What Directly Drives Speech Intelligibility?
Friday, April 21, 2023
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM PDT