The entire team at Hearing Health Foundation, including our researchers, Board of Directors, scientific advisers, and staff, expresses our heartfelt appreciation to you for being a partner in hearing health.
Paul Orlin Receives Collette Ramsey Baker Leadership Award
Hearing Health Foundations (HHF)’s Board of Directors presented Paul Orlin with the Collette Ramsey Baker Leadership Award in January. This award recognizes one individual annually for emulating our founder.
During COVID-19, HHF Remains Committed to You
Rest assured that HHF remains committed to funding innovative science to prevent, treat, and cure hearing and balance disorders. The staff, Board of Directors, advisory bodies, researchers, and volunteers are working tirelessly to ensure operations continue as fully as possible under these unprecedented circumstances.
HHF Board Chair John Dillard Participates in Congressional Hearing Research Program
The Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs’ (CDMRP), Hearing Restoration Research Program (HRRP) consumer advocate John Dillard participated in January the evaluation of research applications submitted to the HRRP in January.
Elizabeth Keithley, Ph.D., Honored With HHF Award
In October 2019, HHF awarded Elizabeth “Betsy” Keithley, Ph.D., a longtime Board of Directors member and chair emerita, its inaugural Collette Ramsey Baker Leadership Award. Keithley was honored for her decades of dedication to HHF, starting with the review of Emerging Research Grants proposals in the 1990s.
In Memoriam: Noel Cohen, M.D.
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) shares with great sadness the passing of Board of Directors member Noel Cohen, M.D., who dedicated his career to helping people hear.
You Can Lead the Way
By Col. John Dillard, U.S. Army (Retired)
Folks like you are the reason Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) has just completed its 60th anniversary year of groundbreaking work toward better treatments and permanent cures for hearing loss and tinnitus. Your donations make it possible.
Tinnitus and hearing loss, respectively, are the number one and number two disabilities reported by returning American military personnel.
Thank you for everything you do.
Living with noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus following 26 years of service in the U.S. Army, I strongly share your desire for more scientific developments — both to restore hearing and to prevent its loss.
Every person serving on our Board of Directors is also connected to a hearing disorder in some way and shares our passion for progress. It is coming. As each year passes we learn more and more about key processes in the brain and auditory system.
We’re grateful for these discoveries that bring us closer to hearing regeneration in adult mice (as human proxies for now), and toward new treatments for tinnitus, Ménière's disease, and related conditions. But we know more must be accomplished for all of us to enjoy a better quality of life.
Your generosity can make possible the discoveries we — our veterans, our parents, our children, our spouses, our friends — urgently need.
Please, if you are able, give today to HHF to fund more innovative scientists in 2019-2020 and accelerate much-needed treatments and cures.
HHF will direct 100% of your gift toward the program your choose — Hearing Restoration Project (HRP), Emerging Research Grants (ERG), Ménière's Disease Grants (MDG), or Education. Thank you for your consideration and for being part of our mission.
With Your Support for Hearing Research, We Can Do Great Work Together
I’m thrilled we are moving toward better treatments and cures for hearing and balance conditions — together. I was diagnosed with a hearing loss at age 4 and with Usher syndrome (combined hearing loss and vision loss with balance difficulties) as an adult.
You Are a Masterpiece
This retinal eye specialist—who was the first person to utter, “You have Usher syndrome” to me—had the worst bedside manner. Immediately after I left his office I cried—a lot—but then regained my composure and made a few calls to see a second retinal eye specialist doctor for a second opinion.
HHF Welcomes John Dillard, Retired U.S. Army Colonel, to Board of Directors
By Nadine Dehgan
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) recently welcomed COL John T. Dillard, USA (Ret) to its Board of Directors. A Cold War Veteran, COL Dillard lives with tinnitus and hearing loss—the two most common war injuries—as a result of repeated exposure to gunfire and blasts.
COL Dillard is currently a Senior Lecturer for Systems Acquisition Management at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, where he has been employed since his retirement from the U.S. Army in 2000. His curricula focus on system developments to advance technology and warfighting capabilities. At the NPS, COL Dillard also counsels young military officers as they cope with the effects of tinnitus including sleep, concentration, and mood issues.
Previously, COL Dillard held positions as an instructor at the U.S. Army War College and an adjunct professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In the latter, he educated Silicon Valley public and private industry professionals in Project Management. The full-text versions of his own many written works on managing technology efforts are available on ResearchGate.
In addition to his present role at the NPS, COL Dillard is a Defense Department Consumer Reviewer for the annual Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program for scientific proposals in the areas of tinnitus and noise-induced hearing loss research. COL Dillard says that he "hopes to contribute in a tangible way to HHF’s drive to restore hearing for countless people affected by its loss."