116 - Gabrielle Merchant, Au.D., Ph.D. - The Case for Wideband Tympanometry
Episode description
Guest: Gabby Merchant, Au.D., Ph.D. - Scientist II & Director of the Translational Auditory Physiology and Perception Laboratory at Boys Town National Research Hospital
Gabby joins Dave on the podcast this week to discuss:
- Her backstory, obtaining a joint Ph.D. from MIT & Harvard in Speech & Hearing Bioscience, and then acquiring her Au.D. from UMass Amherst
- The many mentors Gabby has had along the way, including Susan Voss and Jill de Villiers
- How and why she decided to leave her home in New England for Nebraska to join Boys Town National Research Hospital
- Her passion and work around wideband tympanometry
- The advantages that wideband tympanometry provides clinicians, especially within the pediatric population
- What it's like working inside a translational research lab and the many reasons that make Boys Town so special to Gabby