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.
HHF CEO Timothy Higdon (left) and John Dillard, HHF Board of Directors chair, honor Elizabeth Keithley, Ph.D., with the Collette Ramsey Baker Leadership Award.
“We cannot thank Betsy enough for her many, many years of service toward Hearing Health Foundation’s mission of preventing, researching, and finding a cure for hearing loss and related conditions,” says HHF CEO Timothy Higdon.
An accomplished researcher, Keithley has investigated mechanisms of inflammation and aging on the inner ear. Her interest in the auditory system stemmed from growing up with a mother who had a hearing loss and seeing firsthand the impact that hearing loss can have on a person’s life. Keithley is a professor emerita in the department of surgery and otolaryngology at the University of California at San Diego.
